{"id":417639,"date":"2026-02-10T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:58:10","slug":"one-more-outing-with-riyadh-season-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417639\/","title":{"rendered":"One more outing with Riyadh Season awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Asked how hard the Benavidez fight was, Ajayi admitted: \u201cIt was very, very [hard], as we know. Listen, I said it on talkSPORT the other day, the only way you know how good you are is facing the absolute best. And you get good fighters, great fighters and generational fighters. To me, of all the three world title contests that Ant has been up against and they are Hall of Famers. Benavidez, to me, in my opinion, is the best. I just think how he\u2019s been brought up, the stuff he\u2019s done, sparring with Kelly Pavlik. All these guys from [when Benavidez was] 13 years old\u2026 Gennady Golovkin. He was not a secret in boxing. Everyone knew. But Ant wanted to challenge himself against the best. And it is what it is. You know, no excuses. We\u2019ve got to work harder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked how hard the Benavidez fight was, Ajayi admitted: \u201cIt was very, very [hard], as we know. Listen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[17251,154341,2560,6102,10078,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-417639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-yarde","tag-anthony-yarde-next-fight","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417639","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=417639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}