{"id":647624,"date":"2026-05-03T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647624\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:53:08","slug":"who-will-david-benavidez-fight-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647624\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will David Benavidez fight next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Benavidez, 32-0 (26 KOs), has now won titles in the super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions \u2013 the first to achieve the feat. A 29-year-old Phoenix native who now lives in Miami, Benavidez also became the first to stop Ramirez, further solidifying his pound-for-pound status. He has teased the idea of an eventual move to heavyweight. He called out Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez \u2013 yet again \u2013 in the ring after beating Zurdo. How high can Benavidez rise? Who could challenge him? Most importantly, who might be up on his dance card?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benavidez, 32-0 (26 KOs), has now won titles in the super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[313378,13416,64,63,802,18275,13411,53146,151088,85],"class_list":["post-647624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-albert-ramirez","tag-artur-beterbiev","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-canelo","tag-dmitry-bivol","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-saul-alvarez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647624","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=647624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}