He marched Yarde backward from the start, ripping in combos and giving the Londoner no space to breathe. Yarde fired back with a few clean counters, but every exchange took more out of him as Benavidez\u2019s power and pace began to take its toll.<\/p>\n
By the midway point, Benavidez had completely taken over with Yarde retreating under constant heat. In the seventh, a savage series of shots rocked Yarde badly and sent him to the canvas.<\/p>\n
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Realising his man was finished, the Mexican went all out and poured on several more shots before the referee stepped in to halt the onslaught.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely what I expected,\u201d Benavidez told DAZN\u2019s Claudia Trejos afterwards.<\/p>\n
It was not even close.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I signed to fight Anthony Yarde, I said, \u2018Oh man, this is gonna be a war.\u2019 And this is what I dreamt about, you know, both of us going to war. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think he cut me in round six and I said, \u2018You want a shootout? Let\u2019s go for it, then.\u2019 And you see what I did. He stepped into Monstruo\u2019s world and he got KOd.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the card, Devin Haney dismantled previously unbeaten WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr., claiming the title and cementing his place as a three-division world champ.<\/p>\n
Right from the opening bell, Haney was bossing the ring. Haney\u2019s fancy footwork, sharp jab, and clever counters kept Norman on his toes, picking him apart round by round.<\/p>\n
Haney vs Norman Jr: Fight Highlights | 02:55<\/p>\n
When the final bell rang, the scorecards, 117-110, 116-111, 114-113, told the story of the fight.<\/p>\n
The win was a statement for Haney, putting to rest doubts about his ability after he was dropped three times in a controversial majority decision loss to Ryan Garcia in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2024, I lost everything,\u201d Haney said, referring to his loss to Garcia. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverything came crashing down on me. In 2025, I came to get it back. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2026, I\u2019m coming for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another highlight of the card was Jesse \u201cBam\u201d Rodriguez\u2019s KO of Fernando Martinez.<\/p>\n
Rodriquez shocks Martinez in 10TH RD KO | 00:50<\/p>\n
\u201cBam\u201d reminded the world why he\u2019s a nightmare at junior bantamweight, knocking out Fernando Mart\u00ednez in the 10th round to unify three major super-flyweight belts. <\/p>\n
One crisp left hand had Mart\u00ednez sprawled on the canvas at 1:35 of the round, ending his unbeaten run in brutal fashion.<\/p>\n
When asked after the bout when he realised the win was his, Rodriguez didn\u2019t hesitate:<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly? After Round 1.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bam went on to tip his hat to Martinez.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a tough opponent. He\u2019s a former world champion himself, so that says a lot. Nothing but respect for Martinez. He was a lot tougher than I expected even though I gave him my hardest shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez promised punishment – and he delivered in devastating fashion. The WBC light heavyweight champion retained his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301292","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=301292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}