{"id":283586,"date":"2025-11-26T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:33:08","slug":"david-benavidez-reveals-whether-he-will-return-to-175-after-gilberto-ramirez-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283586\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez reveals whether he will return to 175 after Gilberto Ramirez fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benavidez<\/a> announced a move to the cruiserweight division on Saturday night and has now revealed whether or not his light heavyweight days are completely behind him.<\/p>\n

Benavidez kept his WBC title and undefeated record against Anthony Yarde, knocking the Londoner out after seven dominant rounds in Riyadh.<\/a><\/p>\n

Following the win, despite links to an undisputed showdown against Dmitry Bivol, or a potential firefight with Artur Beterbiev, Benavidez made the surprise announcement that he would move up to the cruiserweight division<\/a> and challenge Gilberto Ramirez for the WBA and WBO world titles in May.<\/p>\n

During the post-fight press conference, however, he reaffirmed his interest in a clash with both Russians and declared that he would be willing to drop back down to 175lbs for a scrap with either man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be the double champ. I want to be the champ at both weight classes. Terence Crawford is doing that right now, but I don\u2019t know how many other people are doing that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be in the same conversations as those guys, but I definitely will come down to 175 and take a fight with those guys [Bivol and Beterbiev] if it\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bivol and Beterbiev may collide in a trilogy bout in early 2026, meaning Benavidez could take on the victor during the second half of the calendar year.<\/p>\n

Although, Bivol has spoke of a move to cruiserweight himself in the past. Therefore, a highly-anticipated meeting with Benavidez could potentially take place at 200lbs, particularly if the latter manages to dethrone Ramirez in six months\u2019 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez announced a move to the cruiserweight division on Saturday night and has now revealed whether or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-283586","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\/283586","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=283586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}