Since weighing in over the super middleweight limit ahead of his fight with Alexis Angulo in August 2020, Benavidez has hardly been guilty of a false step. He has maintained his undefeated record, defeating Ronald Ellis, Kyrone Davis, David Lemieux, Caleb Plant, Demetrius Andrade, Oleksandr Gvozdyk and David Morrell Jnr. The Plant fight was the only among them in which Benavidez needed to come from behind to win, and “The Mexican Monster” closed the show by battering Plant to within an inch of a stoppage in the later rounds.
