The Danza Project<\/a> if he felt not fighting Alvarez would leave a hole in his career, Benavidez said yes.<\/p>\n\u201c100%. Always in boxing, or whatever sport, everybody has their arch nemesis. Canelo is my arch nemesis, basically. That\u2019s exactly how it\u2019d be. It\u2019d be an unfortunate moment that never happened in boxing. If it doesn\u2019t happen, there\u2019s really nothing I can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benavidez \u2013 who has campaigned for the fight for a number of years now \u2013 then admitted that the delay has already seen it lose some appeal, given Alvarez\u2019s loss to Terence Crawford last year.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Crawford] took a lot away from it. At the time Crawford beat him, Canelo was basically looking invincible. If I could\u2019ve got in there, beat him, it would\u2019ve been more of an impact. Now that Crawford came in and beat him, you don\u2019t know what Canelo is gonna show up \u2013 if he\u2019s gonna be extremely prepared or he doesn\u2019t really seem like he\u2019s hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the consistent calls from both fans and Benavidez to make the fight happen, Canelo has demonstrated that he will make his own decisions in the sport. With a September return date locked in, and a shot at one of his previous super-middleweight world titles likely, it\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess whether or not he will venture back up to light-heavyweight again.<\/p>\n
If he does so, he has made it clear that a rematch with Dmitry Bivol<\/a> is higher on his list than facing Benavidez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez wants nothing more than to fight the best and, with his star power growing and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-464132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464132","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=464132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}