David Benavidez says he’ll transfer as much as cruiserweight to problem WBA and WBO champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez if he doesn’t get the WBC necessary ordered instantly to problem the winner of the October twelfth rematch between undisputed mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Impatient Benavidez
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) is impatient and doesn’t need to be pressured to attend round for his title shot like he did at 168 with Canelo Alvarez not giving him a title shot at any of the 4 belts when he captured all of them.
Jake Donovan is the one who broke the story of Benavidez telling him that he’ll transfer as much as cruiserweight to tackle ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (47-1, 30 KOs) for his WBA & WBO belts if he can’t get the title shot immediately in opposition to the Beterbiev-Bivol 2 winner.
Benavidez nonetheless must defeat WBA ‘common’ mild heavyweight champion David Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on February 1st of their headliner on PBC on Prime Video PPV on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. It’s not a certainty that Benavidez will win the combat, however he has a historical past of being overconfident, believing he can stroll on water.
So, he may discover out the exhausting manner to not look previous his opponents within the 175-lb division. He may afford to do this at 68 as a result of he was a lot larger than the restricted opposition that he’d been combating his whole profession, however now that he’s combating the place he ought to have been from day one in 2013, he’s not so nice.
“I’ve acquired to chop the space, use my combos, and use all my attributes,” stated David Benavidez to Wager On Your self channel, speaking about his combat in opposition to David Morrell on February 1st. “I’m not frightened about Morrell as a result of I do know that after I get a superb boxer in there, then the very best of myself comes out. I do know that from expertise.
“He’s a superb fighter. I’ve acquired to be on my Ps and Qs. My protection has acquired to be good. My head motion has acquired to be good. That’s why I’ve been coaching all this time for. I do know I’m going to do good. I like combating, I like boxing, and I like all the pieces about this. I’m going to indicate the individuals who I’m on February 1st.
“I’ve talked to him a few instances. He’s doing a fantastic job. He’s placing collectively these large fights,” stated Benavidez about Turki Al-Shiekh. “I feel it offers all the opposite fighters hope for the long run that you just would possibly get a name and also you would possibly get a $50 million combat as a result of What did Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk get? $100 million? It’s loopy.
“That’s loopy cash. So, I really feel us boxers went by means of this time the place we actually weren’t actually making some huge cash. So now the doorways are open, and we are able to earn more money. I like what Turki Al-Shiekh is doing, however we’ve nonetheless acquired to consider the U.S. I need to be a Vegas fighter.”
It’s unlikely that Benavidez goes to benefit from the form of cash that Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk, and Tyson Fury have been getting for combating on the Riyadh Season playing cards as a result of the main focus by Turki appears to be on paying the heavyweights tons of cash. It doesn’t matter that Fury and Joshua are washed up. They’re well-liked for what they did within the distant previous, and that’s adequate for them to be paid mega-millions.
“They nonetheless acquired to return to Vegas. Persons are nonetheless going to be within the U.S. Not all people can go to Riyadh and go to all of these fights. I’d be right down to be on one among their playing cards, however we’ve acquired the U.S. that we have to care for.
