David Benavidez takes some time to talk to Fight Hype about what he makes of his past inability to secure a fight with Canelo Alvarez and whether he thinks that may ever come off in the future. Benavidez also mentions that he\u2019ll be looking at a cruiserweight title opportunity against Gilberto \u2018Zurdo\u2019 Ramirez early next year should everything go according to plan in his upcoming title defense against Anthony Yarde.<\/p>\n
Benavidez on his thoughts on if he\u2019ll ever fight Canelo<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think [a Canelo fight] is 100% dead. To be honest with you, until Canelo retires that fight is always going to be looming. That fight makes sense. It makes sense in every way it happens, so in my head it\u2019s not going to not happen because even if we wait another three years it\u2019s still going to be one of the biggest fights in boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut also Canelo knows that I\u2019m not playing games with him. I\u2019m not playing games with anybody. If anything he knows this fight between me and him is inevitable and when it happens it\u2019s going to be like an Oscar De La Hoya vs Chavez.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo in my opinion it\u2019s always going to be an option, I\u2019m not really focused on that myself. I\u2019m focused on Dmitry Bivol, Artur Beterbiev, Zurdo Ramirez and anything else that comes after that. And then after those fights get done then maybe then is the timing is going to be perfect to make the Canelo fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether he believes he\u2019ll get a Ramirez fight early next year<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, definitely. That\u2019s what it\u2019s looking like. First things first, we got to take care of business next Saturday. But like I say, I\u2019m just trying to make the biggest fights happen. I have 100% confidence in myself that I can beat anybody here at 175 and at cruiserweight, so if I get an opportunity to fight Zurdo Ramirez next for two more titles, like you said, I\u2019m a legacy fighter. There\u2019s no way in hell I\u2019m going to turn down a two-title fight int he cruiserweight division. So that\u2019s definitely something that looks like it can manifest itself, but first things first, we need to take care of Anthony Yarde and if we can get that next year, that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re going to go into.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez takes some time to talk to Fight Hype about what he makes of his past inability…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-270696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270696","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=270696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}