{"id":938648,"date":"2026-10-24T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938648\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:26:09","slug":"david-benavidez-vergil-ortiz-headline-star-studded-card-on-dec-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938648\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez, Vergil Ortiz Headline Star-Studded Card On Dec. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">David Benavidez <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/david-benavidez-has-three-man-hit-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently put out a hit list<\/a> saying he had a plan to sign on for three massive fights which includes facing Oleksandr Usyk, Artur Beterbiev and Jai Opetaia. Before then, however, he needs to finish his existing deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/2113301351799398813\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Ring Magazine<\/a>, the final fight of his deal will be against WBC interim cruiserwweight champion, Michal Cieslak, as the two men have booked to throw down in a title unification bout on Dec. 5, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cieslak is currently on a seven-fight win streak which includes a TKO win over Jean Pascal, whom he defeated over a year ago to win the WBC strap. The Polish bruiser will be coming into the title fight with a 28-2-1 record and 22 knockouts to his name, though Benavidez will undoubtedly be the biggest test of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As far as \u201cThe Mexican Monster\u201d is concerned, he is currently one of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world today, amassing an impressive 32-o record with 26 knockouts. He is currently the WBA and WBO cruiserweight champion, and is a former three-division king, previously holding the WBA and WBO light heavyweight belts to go along with the WBC super middleweight strap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Speaking of which, Ortiz is looking to lock down a huge statement win over Thurman in order to throw his hat into the mix for potential big-money title fights against the aforementioned Fundora and Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis, two of the top 154-pound boxers in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez recently put out a hit list saying he had a plan to sign on for three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-938648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938648","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=938648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}