{"id":870211,"date":"2026-08-24T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870211\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:56:09","slug":"david-benavidez-targets-jai-opetaia-for-cinco-de-mayo-after-expected-december-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870211\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez targets Jai Opetaia for Cinco de Mayo after expected December return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">David Benavidez is planning both a homecoming and a super-fight against fellow unbeaten cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia for his next two bouts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Unbeaten, three-division champion Benavidez, 32-0 (26 KOs), of Phoenix is nearing agreement to pursue a third cruiserweight belt against Poland\u2019s interim WBC 200lbs champion Michal Cieslak, 28-2 (22 KOs), atop a December 12 card in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez is planning both a homecoming and a super-fight against fellow unbeaten cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,13038,43137,178608,126019,82],"class_list":["post-870211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-benavidez","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-michal-cieslak","tag-noel-mikaelian","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870211","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=870211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}