{"id":200167,"date":"2025-10-09T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200167\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:08:04","slug":"assessing-david-benavidezs-choice-to-stay-where-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200167\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing David Benavidez&#8217;s choice to stay where he is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary ColemanThu Oct 9, 2025, 6:27 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>First guy that came to mind was Chad Dawson. <\/p>\n<p>Benavidez is in a great spot. Concerning weight, there&#8217;s no need for him to risk anything.<\/p>\n<p>elfagThu Oct 9, 2025, 2:19 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>that was a dumb fight anyways <\/p>\n<p>1st the public is never asking for it. <\/p>\n<p>second does crawford even want it? hes probably vacating it and he probably dont want to fight a massive young guy with legs like that<\/p>\n<p>3rd, bena really wants canelo not crawford<\/p>\n<p>4th, if he wins people will just say hes huge and crawford is old and small <\/p>\n<p>landotterWed Oct 8, 2025, 9:37 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>I think he has learned a lot about paying attention to his body from the multiple times he missed weight in the past. 175 is not really &#8220;loaded&#8221;, but it has enough star power there are good fights available for him. I think it is a good choice. Stay where your body is comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>SouthpawRightWed Oct 8, 2025, 7:19 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Let see if David can stop Buff Guy Yarde<\/p>\n<p>so far the greats Saul and Artur have outperformed David when it comes to common opponents Caleb and Gvozdyk<\/p>\n<p>Artur ko&#8217;d Yarde but was hurt himself 3 to 4 times in the process<\/p>\n<p>David has a better guard than Artur but much less timing and power<br \/>\nwho wins the upcoming Morrell-Smith bout?<\/p>\n<p>GoatintheboatWed Oct 8, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Benevidez has the chance to be a mega star. And without fighting Canelo or Crawford who are on the last leg of their run. Fighting Yarde on a Saudi show is a great move. Follow that up with smashing Smith at Anfield and then win the undisputed in Vegas against either of the Ruskies. Job done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary ColemanThu Oct 9, 2025, 6:27 AM UTC First guy that came to mind was Chad Dawson. Benavidez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[98765,703,49,48,13038,12289,82,13036,5057],"class_list":["post-200167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-benavidez-vs-yarde","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-benavidez","tag-legacy","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-turki-alalshikh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}