{"id":516786,"date":"2026-03-05T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:59:07","slug":"david-benavidez-names-his-hardest-opponent-so-far-hes-a-great-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516786\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez names his hardest opponent so far: “He’s a great fighter”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fan-favourite light-heavyweight ruler David Benavidez<\/a> is set for a tough challenge against Gilberto Ramirez<\/a> in two months\u2019 time. Ahead of that bout, \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 has named the opponent who has given him his hardest fight to date.<\/p>\n

Benavidez was crowned as the youngest super-middleweight world champion in history when he defeated Ronald Gavril by split-decision back in 2017<\/a>, before a more dominant win in their rematch.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix-born powerhouse then became a two-time champion at 168lbs, but lost the belt for a second time after missing weight and then continuously campaigned for a showdown with new champion Canelo Alvarez, but to no avail.<\/p>\n

Benavidez overcame David Lemieux, Caleb Plant and Demetrius Andrade whilst in hot pursuit of Canelo, eventually moving up to light-heavyweight when he realised that the fight was not happening.<\/p>\n

There, the now 29-year-old has trumped Oleksandr Gvozdyk, David Morrell and Anthony Yarde in impressive displays, during which time he has got his hands on the WBC light-heavyweight world title.<\/p>\n

When speaking to streamer Neon on Kick<\/a>, Benavidez picked out Plant as the man who gave him his toughest fight, despite his unanimous-decision victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho was the toughest fight? Everybody kind of has a lot of different stuff that they do, I would say that probably the hardest fight that I have had was with Caleb Plant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a big moment, there was a lot of animosity towards each other and he is a great fighter. He fought a good fight, we had a great performance, both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-division conqueror takes on Ramirez on Saturday, May 2, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas<\/a>, where the unified cruiserweight world champion will presumably overtake Plant as Benavidez\u2019s most difficult dance partner yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fan-favourite light-heavyweight ruler David Benavidez is set for a tough challenge against Gilberto Ramirez in two months\u2019 time.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-516786","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\/516786","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=516786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}