This Saturday night, Conor Benn takes on Regis Prograis in a 150lbs catchweight affair. Ahead of the action, super-middleweight great Carl Froch has shared his final prediction.

Benn has boxed at super-welterweight and middleweight since failing a drugs test in 2022, but now seeks to capitalise on his position as mandatory challenger for Ryan Garcia’s WBC welterweight world title, and is stopping off at 150lbs on his way back down to the 147 ranks.

Meanwhile, Prograis is a career super-lightweight and a two-time world champion of that division, but his powers look to have faded in recent fights – and the move up in weight makes the 37-year-old southpaw a sizeable underdog.

In an interview with New Betting Sites, Froch said that Prograis in his prime would beat Benn, but that the circumstances around the fight point to a stoppage win for the Brit.

“Pound for pound, Regis Prograis beats Conor Benn 10 times out of 10. Pound for pound, it’s a mismatch, but Regis Prograis is in his 38th year. He’s been inactive, he’s had three losses anyway, so the answer could be that Conor Benn has got him bang on at the right time.

“I expect him to do the job and get the stoppage within six rounds. The danger is, if it goes past six, Regis Prograis is a talented fighter. Good, skilled fighter, been in there with the best of the best – and we don’t know how good Conor Benn is, because we’re only judging him on a weight-drained Chris Eubank Jr, who’s not world level. Chris Eubank Jr. lost to Billy Joe Saunders, lost to George Groves, he lost to Liam Smith, he got battered by Liam Smith.

“So this is a fighter that’s shown that he is European level at best. I called him a novice the other week, and he got p***ed off. He got the hump. His lawyer sent me a message saying, ‘we’re not inclined to do another interview with you because of your recent negative comments’, ‘what negative comments? I called him a novice’.

“If somebody’s not fought for an Area, English, British, or European title, in my book, they’re a novice, because they’ve never been tested at world level. So it’s not a criticism. Go out there and win a world title and prove me wrong. Why are you so sensitive?”

Benn-Prograis will be the co-main event of the Fury-Makhmudov card tomorrow night, with the entirety of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium bill available to watch live via Netflix.