{"id":646065,"date":"2026-05-03T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646065\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:58:10","slug":"benavidez-drops-and-stops-zurdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646065\/","title":{"rendered":"Benavidez drops and stops \u201cZurdo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benavidez drops and stops \u201cZurdo\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Red flags, as David Benavidez ruthlessly defeated\u00a0 Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ram\u00edrez by technical knockout in the sixth round, during the most impactful fights on Saturday, May 2.<\/p>\n<p>From the opening bell, Benavidez set the tone with and more significantly the pace, with his volley punch volume and stilleto accuracy, landing clusters of combinations to the body and head, that systematically, categorically and fundamentally busted up and wore Ram\u00edrez down. The constant, unremitting pressure from the \u201cMexican Monster\u201d resulted two knockdowns and the stoppage.<\/p>\n<p>The end came in the sixth round, when the accumulated punishment culminating in a left, right, left, snapping back Zurdo\u2019s head in a sweat spray, dropped him. Battered and stunned, he covered his swelling eye with his glove, his mouth- piece fell out of a mouth agape and ajar, he was in no position to rise to defend himself and Referee Thomas Taylor, wisely, swiftly and mercifully immediately waved the fight off.<\/p>\n<p>With this result, Benavidez secures a key victory in yet another division, reaffirming his status as one of the most dominant figures in boxing today.<\/p>\n<p>His performance makes him a champion in three divisions \u2014 super middleweight, light heavyweight, and cruiserweight \u2014 further cementing his legacy across different stages of his career.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_182227\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"182227\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benavidez drops and stops \u201cZurdo\u201d Red flags, as David Benavidez ruthlessly defeated\u00a0 Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ram\u00edrez by technical knockout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-646065","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\/646065","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=646065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}