{"id":261068,"date":"2025-11-13T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261068\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:21:08","slug":"lennox-lewis-has-no-doubt-who-wins-david-benavidez-vs-dmitry-bivol-im-picking-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261068\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis Has No Doubt Who Wins David Benavidez vs Dmitry Bivol: “I’m Picking Him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis<\/a> has predicted the outcome of an intriguing light-heavyweight battle between Dmitry Bivol<\/a> and David Benavidez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russian superstar Bivol achieved his career-long dream of becoming the undisputed light-heavyweight champion back in February when he defeated countryman Artur Beterbiev by majority decision in their thrilling rematch in Riyadh.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for Benavidez, the 28-year-old from Phoenix began his campaign at 175lbs in August 2024 following a successful period at super-middleweight. \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 was elevated to full WBC world champion earlier this year after Bivol opted to vacate the belt to pursue a trilogy clash with Beterbiev.<\/p>\n

With rumours circulating about a potential match-up between the two light heavyweight stars being targeted for 2026, legendary heavyweight Lewis has spoken out and predicted what he believes will happen when they inevitably clash.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Carl Froch<\/a>, Lewis made no mistake in backing Benavidez to get the job done against Bivol as he brandishes the unbeaten American star as a \u2018classy operator\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenavidez and Bivol? I\u2019m still picking Benavidez on that one. Yes he is [a classy operator].\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez is set to make the maiden defence of his WBC light-heavyweight title against Britain\u2019s Anthony Yarde<\/a> at the ANB Arena in Riyadh on Saturday November 22, his first ring appearance since he outpointed David Morrell back in February.<\/p>\n

Should he be victorious against Yarde later this month, \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 will be looking at pushing towards a potential clash with Bivol, who currently holds the unified WBA, WBO and IBF world titles at 175lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has predicted the outcome of an intriguing light-heavyweight battle between Dmitry Bivol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-261068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261068","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=261068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}