Conor Benn says he isn’t involved in a battle with world champion Lewis Crocker.
‘The Destroyer’ and ‘The Croc’ have been linked for the reason that Belfast welterweight claimed the IBF world title.
Certainly, it’s a battle Crocker and his crew have referred to as for.
It’s additionally a battle that’s simply made, not solely due to Crocker’s willingness however as a result of each are Matchroom aligned.
Nonetheless, when lastly commenting on a proposed bout, Benn has distanced himself from the battle.
The English boxer, who lately received revenge over Chris Eubank Jr, says he has ‘larger’ fights in thoughts, whereas pointing to the truth that the IBF enforces a rehydration clause as a problem.
“I’m probably not [in Lewis Crocker],” he informed The Ring.
“There’s larger fish to fry in my view, though he’s the IBF [world champion], he isn’t actually a reputation that’s on my radar.
“For me, it’s in regards to the 10-pound rehydration [clause]. I might somewhat win the WBC [belt], for me, that’s my foremost purpose, or an enormous American title.
“Perhaps I can come over right here [to the United States], headline in [Las] Vegas and battle the likes of Rolly [Romero], [Ryan] Garcia and [Mario] Barrios. I consider we’d do a superb present in Vegas.”
With Benn off the radar, Crocker is lining up an April return to Windsor Park, the place he’ll make a voluntary defence of the title he gained by defeating Paddy Donovan within the first all-Irish world title battle.
If he emerges victorious, he’ll then look to unify.
