Conor Benn is disappointed that his domestic-level match-up against Chris Eubank Jr. hasn’t materialized, but he’s now focused on going after one of the welterweight titles once champion Terence Crawford vacates them.

Benn has a good chance of winning one of the 147-lb belts as long as he doesn’t fight one of the talented welterweights like Keith Thurman, Giovani Santillan, Eimantas Stanionis, or Shakhram Giyasov. Conor has been too inactive to take on one of those guys and be counted on to win.

Winnable fights for Benn at 147

Cody Crowley
Josh Taylor
Souleymane Cissokho
Pablo Cesar Cano
Radzhab Butaev

The 27-year-old Benn (22-0, 14 KOs) has put a lot of time and energy into setting up a fight with the 34-year-old Eubank Jr., and it’s gotten him nowhere. It’s a fight that means less and less as time goes on.

If not for a payday, it would be best for Benn to forget about this because the original idea of putting the Eubank Jr. clash on DAZN PPV won’t work now.

Fans aren’t going to want to buy the match in big numbers, and Matchroom could lose massive money promoting it if they give the two fighters huge guarantees.

Eddie Hearn won’t let go of the idea of putting on the Conor Benn vs. Chris Eubank Jr. fight, still believing that people care about seeing these two.

Like a dog that won’t let go of an old bone, Hearn persists in putting this fight together rather than moving Benn in the direction of relevant fighters like Jarob ‘Boots’ Ennis, Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, or Jermell Charlo.

The aging Eubank Jr. is a career underachiever, and it won’t do anything for Benn’s career to fight him. Eubank Jr. is almost 35 and has never won one of the four prestigious world titles.

Benn is fighting a guy named Peter Dobson (16-0, 9 KOs) next month on February 3rd on DAZN from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Chelsea Ballroom, Las Vegas. It’s unclear where Hearn found Dobson, as this guy is an unknown.

Americans don’t know who Dobson is and wonder where on earth Hearn dug him up and why he matches him against Benn.

Granted, Benn’s last opponent, Rodolfo Orozco, was also an obscure fighter that boxing fans had never heard of, but Hearn doesn’t need to continue to feed him this type of opposition because it’s not going to help him when he eventually fights for one of the vacant welterweight titles.

“Why are they not happening? I’m ready to go for any of them; I was preparing for a big fight,” said Conor Benn to iFL TV about the Chris Eubank Jr. match

“That fight takes me off course of where we initially set out to go, so we’ll see what big names are there at 147.

“I think it’s a matter of time before I get that strap around my waist, but who knows what the future holds. I’m on the hunt; I’m not going to get sidetracked by this or that. Legacy stands. The big fights are what I want, and if I don’t have to come up to 160lbs, even better.”