{"id":959589,"date":"2026-11-10T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/959589\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:34:40","slug":"i-will-be-number-one-p4p-david-benavidez-focused-for-cieslak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/959589\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will be number one P4P\u2019: David Benavidez focused for Cieslak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">David Benavidez says that becoming undisputed champ at cruiserweight is \u201cinevitable,\u201d as he prepares to face Michal Cieslak with three title belts on the line on December 5 at home in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But Benavidez doesn\u2019t want to limit the vision to just becoming an undisputed champion. He\u2019s also looking to be seen as the world\u2019s best boxer, bar none.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI got two belts in my first fight at cruiserweight and now I\u2019m going for a third,\u201d Benavidez said. \u201cMe being undisputed is inevitable. I\u2019m going to make my way to the top of the pound-for-pound list very soon. I will be number one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Benavidez (32-0, 26 KO) dominated Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez to win the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles on May 2 in Las Vegas, and will be trying to add the WBC belt currently held by Cieslak (28-2, 22 KO), who comes over from Poland as a heavy underdog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe biggest challenge with Cieslak is that he\u2019s coming into this fight defending his title for the first time,\u201d Benavidez said. \u201cEvery fighter has that motivation after winning the title that you really don\u2019t wanna let it go. He\u2019s gonna come in strong, but I don\u2019t run away from any competition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez says that becoming undisputed champ at cruiserweight is \u201cinevitable,\u201d as he prepares to face Michal Cieslak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-959589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959589","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=959589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}