{"id":237316,"date":"2025-11-01T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237316\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:28:02","slug":"benavidez-dismisses-claims-hes-overlooking-yarde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237316\/","title":{"rendered":"Benavidez Dismisses Claims He\u2019s Overlooking Yarde"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen it numerous times over the years: a big, even massive favourite looks past a supposed gimme, or cake-walk, and he pays the price big-time. The champ, or the star fighter, loses, maybe by a humbling KO. This will NOT be the case as far as David Benavidez is concerned, this from the man himself, who spoke with Ring Magazine<\/a> ahead of his fast-approaching November 22 WBC light heavyweight title defence against Anthony Yarde.<\/p>\n

Recently, Yarde\u2019s trainer, Tunde Ajayi, along with former two-time world title challenger Yarde himself, said they feel Benavidez is indeed guilty of looking ahead to bigger fights \u2013 ones with Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol, or maybe Zurdo Ramirez. But this isn\u2019t so, says \u201cThe Mexican Monster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez Says He\u2019s Locked In on Yarde<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can say whatever they want, but they\u2019re not seeing how I\u2019m training,\u201d Benavidez said. \u201cIf anything, this has been the hardest I\u2019ve trained. They\u2019re probably saying that because I\u2019m mentioning Dmitry Bivol, I\u2019m mentioning Zurdo Ramirez. But at the end of the day, I know what\u2019s at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez, who has trained mighty hard for the Yarde fight \u2014 at least going by the training footage sites such as Fight Hype and Fight Hub have put out \u2014 knows what\u2019s at stake. I don\u2019t know about you, but I think Benavidez, 30-0(24), has the kind of fighting pride and ego that will never allow him to risk losing due to not doing his pre-fight work. But we will see later on this month.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Benavidez to End It Early<\/p>\n

Pick: Benavidez, on fire, will score an impressive, put the 175-pound division on (further) notice by icing Yarde inside three sizzling rounds.<\/p>\n

But how do YOU see the Nov. 22 fight going?<\/p>\n

Yarde\u2019s team is absolute: Benavidez is \u201chaving a laugh\u201d in thinking that Yarde, 27-3(24), is going all the way through with this fight, not believing he can and will go home with the career-changing win.<\/p>\n

This fight does promise to be bombs away, while it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve seen it numerous times over the years: a big, even massive favourite looks past a supposed gimme,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-237316","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\/237316","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=237316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}