Benn will be staying busy

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Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn is going to keep welterweight Conor Benn awfully busy.

Benn (1-0, 1 KO), the 19-year-old son of former middleweight and super middleweight world titleholder Nigel Benn — one of Great Britain’s most popular fighters of the 1990s — had two fight dates added to the calendar on Monday.

Conor Benn, who scored a first-round knockout of Bulgaria’s Ivailo Boyanov on April 9 on the Anthony Joshua-Charles Martin undercard at the O2 Arena in London, will return to fight on the undercard of Ricky Burns’ bout against Michele Di Rocco for a vacant junior welterweight belt on May 28 at the SSE Hydro in …

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