{"id":646575,"date":"2026-05-03T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:30:08","slug":"masterpiece-david-benavidezs-brutal-win-over-zurdo-ramirez-sets-off-boxing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646575\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Masterpiece’: David Benavidez’s brutal win over Zurdo Ramirez sets off boxing world"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benavidez is a bad, bad man. In case there was ever any doubt about that, Saturday night\u2019s action in Las Vegas put it to rest for good.<\/p>\n

In perhaps the finest performance of an already standout career, Benavidez (32-0, 26 KOs) destroyed Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez (48-2, 30 KOs) with a star-making performance<\/a> to capture the WBA and WBO unified cruiserweight titles and claim ownership over one of boxing\u2019s most important weekends of the year \u2014 Cinco de Mayo weekend.<\/p>\n

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Making matters more impressive, Benavidez \u2014 the reigning WBC light heavyweight champion \u2014 not only jumped up a staggering 25 pounds to challenge Ramirez, he also did so in front of his longtime rival and the former owner of Cinco de Mayo weekend, Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez, then directly called out Alvarez in the aftermath of a stunning showcase of hand speed, grit and brilliant combination punching.<\/p>\n

Benavidez entered the evening as the No. 7-ranked pound-for-pound fighter in the world<\/a> on Uncrowned\u2019s rankings, but his name is likely going to rocket up much higher on that list as the boxing world attempts to understand what it just watched unfold on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Check out reaction to Benavidez\u2019s career-changing night below, including commentary from former pound-for-pound king Terence Crawford and Devin Haney.<\/p>\n

For full coverage of Benavidez vs. Zurdo, including live results, play-by-play and highlights of the entire main card, check out Uncrowned’s fight night hub.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez is a bad, bad man. In case there was ever any doubt about that, Saturday night\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,172881,802,13412,64839,311541,85],"class_list":["post-646575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benavidez","tag-boxing","tag-david-benavidez","tag-devin-haney","tag-gilberto-zurdo-ramirez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646575","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=646575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}