{"id":652572,"date":"2026-05-06T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:42:09","slug":"what-julio-cesar-chavez-said-to-david-benavidez-after-witnessing-ramirez-ko-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652572\/","title":{"rendered":"What Julio Cesar Chavez said to David Benavidez after witnessing Ramirez KO win"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benavidez<\/a> rose the pound-for-pound rankings with a sensational stoppage of Gilberto Ramirez<\/a>, and \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 has revealed what boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez told him after the fight.<\/p>\n

A former champion at super-middleweight and a reigning light-heavyweight ruler, the 25lb jump up to cruiserweight was expected to push Benavidez to the limit and provide him with a new kind of test. The Arizona-born operator passed with flying colours<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Benavidez dominated \u2018Zurdo\u2019 Ramirez in a statement performance before a stoppage in round six brought the beatdown to an end, earning him the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles.<\/p>\n

Soon after the win, Benavidez spoke with Chavez, and in a clip captured by Premier Boxing Champions<\/a>, the newly crowned unified champion revealed that the Mexican fighting icon told him that he is now convinced by his skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just said that I finally convinced him. I said, \u2018oh, I barely convinced you [before]?\u2019. I thought, I was f***ing doing my best! But, this is what I am here for, people doubt me all of the time, people say that I can\u2019t do nothing and I rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like this [fight]. Tonight, I came in at 202lbs, I only gained two pounds! I am just very happy and very grateful. God is good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the fight, Benavidez declared that he would return to the light-heavyweight division, but a challenge for the undisputed cruiserweight title could be possible, whilst rumours of a possible heavyweight move are also being mentioned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez rose the pound-for-pound rankings with a sensational stoppage of Gilberto Ramirez, and \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-652572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652572","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=652572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}