{"id":265381,"date":"2025-11-06T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265381\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:24:07","slug":"david-benavidez-knows-who-will-give-him-the-harder-fight-between-dmitry-bivol-and-artur-beterbiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265381\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez knows who will give him the harder fight between Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future for David Benavidez<\/a> is looking brighter than ever and \u201cThe Mexican Monster\u201d will hope it includes legacy-defining fights against Dmitry Bivol<\/a> and Artur Beterbiev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The light-heavyweight trio are the best in the division and as things stand Bivol, 24-1 (12 KOs), leads the way after gaining revenge over Artur Beterbiev<\/a>, 21-1 (20 KOs). Despite becoming undisputed champion in their February rematch, however, Bivol\u2019s reign as the four-belt king lasted just two months. In April the 34-year-old vacated his WBC title instead of facing mandatory challenger Benavidez. His decision elevated Benavidez, 30-0 (24 KOs), from interim to full champion.<\/p>\n

Benavidez\u2019s first defence of his WBC title in Riyadh against Anthony Yarde is just over two weeks away. Going into the fight the champion is a heavy favourite to retain his belt. Should he do so he may target Bivol or the now belt-less Beterbiev.<\/p>\n

But in an interview with Boxing News<\/a> earlier this week Benavidez was asked who he would prefer to fight between Bivol<\/a> and Beterbiev if there were no titles at stake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Beterbiev would be a more fan friendly fight. It\u2019d be a harder fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeterbiev is more of a rugged in your face type of fighter, Bivol is more of a you have to go and hunt him down. I\u2019m willing to fight whoever. I think a more fan friendly fight would be me versus Beterbiev \u2013\u2013 that would be a great fight. But even me with Bivol would be a great fight, too. I sparred Bivol a lot of times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez recently revealed what happened when he sparred Bivol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future for David Benavidez is looking brighter than ever and \u201cThe Mexican Monster\u201d will hope it includes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-265381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}