{"id":716384,"date":"2026-06-05T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:45:09","slug":"david-benavidez-camp-refutes-artur-beterbiev-talk-of-dodging-megafight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716384\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez camp refutes Artur Beterbiev talk of dodging megafight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">David Benavidez\u2019s team isn\u2019t buying former undisputed light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev\u2019s recounting of conversations to arrange a high-profile showdown between the pound-for-pound members.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey\u2019re lying,\u201d Benavidez\u2019s father-manager-trainer, Jose Benavidez Snr told BoxingScene Thursday. \u201cWe want to fight him. Let\u2019s make that fight happen. Tell the [Beterbiev] manager to contact me, and we will make that fight happen in five minutes. Do you have his manager\u2019s number? Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez\u2019s team isn\u2019t buying former undisputed light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev\u2019s recounting of conversations to arrange a high-profile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[13416,64,63,802,13412,309800,85],"class_list":["post-716384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-artur-beterbiev","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-david-benavidez","tag-jose-benavidez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716384","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=716384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}