{"id":176642,"date":"2025-10-03T04:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176642\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:21:16","slug":"david-benavidez-makes-u-turn-on-facing-terence-crawford-at-super-middleweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176642\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez Makes U-Turn On Facing Terence Crawford At Super-Middleweight"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benavidez<\/a> appears to have made a u-turn on a potential showdown with pound-for-pound great Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rumours began to circulate about a potential showdown between Benavidez and Crawford taking place, just weeks after \u2018Bud\u2019 etched his name into the boxing history books once again.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old from Omaha put on an impressive display to defeat Mexican icon Canelo Alvarez via unanimous decision<\/a> on September 13 to capture the undisputed super-middleweight championship at a sold out Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Last year in an interview with Mr Organik<\/a>, Benavidez admitted that he would be open to a showdown with Crawford, setting his sights on getting revenge for his brother Jose, who was beaten by \u2018Bud\u2019 back in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to get [revenge], but I just don\u2019t think he would come up.<\/p>\n

I would love to fight [Terence] Crawford, or even spar Crawford.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, since Crawford\u2019s victory over Canelo, \u2018The Monster\u2019 has now revealed in a conversation with Inside The Ring that he actually has \u2018no interest\u2019 in moving back down a division for a potential clash with his countryman.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, let Terence Crawford live. That\u2019s his weight class. I lost interest in 168 a long, long time ago. And I know that we could get offered a lot of money to go down but I\u2019m more comfortable at 175. I\u2019m chasing Beterbiev, Bivol, Zurdo Ramirez at cruiserweight. So, I\u2019ve been at 168 but I have no interest in going back down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez is set to make the first defence of his WBC light-heavyweight title later this year, as he gears up to face Britain\u2019s Anthony Yarde in Riyadh on Saturday November 22.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for Crawford, the 38-year-old is set to take a period of rest following his historic victory over Canelo, with reports suggesting that he could drop down to middleweight in an attempt to become a six-weight world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez appears to have made a u-turn on a potential showdown with pound-for-pound great Terence Crawford. Rumours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-176642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}