{"id":553596,"date":"2026-04-27T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:07:13","slug":"eddie-hearn-confirms-bivol-benavidez-talks-for-undisputed-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553596\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn Confirms Bivol-Benavidez Talks For Undisputed Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770669047_552_google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Bivol and David Benavidez could still meet for the undisputed light heavyweight championship, and Eddie Hearn says talks are already underway.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn said discussions have taken place with Benavidez\u2019s co-promoter, Luis De Cubas, about making a fight between Dmitry Bivol and David Benavidez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a fight that we\u2019re discussing with Louis De Cubas,\u201d Hearn said to Fight Hub TV.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup would carry all four major belts at 175 pounds if both men remain on course. Bivol currently holds the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles, while Benavidez owns the WBC belt after moving to the top of the division earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn also praised Benavidez\u2019s willingness to chase difficult fights across divisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need guys like that who want to be great. Want to win the belts, want to become unified and undisputed, want to become multi-weight world champions,\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n<p>Benavidez is scheduled to face Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez in a cruiserweight title fight on May 2 in Las Vegas, while Bivol is set to defend against Michael Eifert on May 30 in Russia. If both men come through those bouts, pressure will grow for the division\u2019s biggest available fight.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez is not a stay-busy opponent. He is the unified WBA and WBO cruiserweight champion and has fully acclimated to the 200-pound limit. While Benavidez is the \u201cMonster,\u201d he is still the naturally smaller man here.<\/p>\n<p>If Zurdo uses his size and that awkward southpaw style to bully Benavidez, the Bivol fight at 175 might not just be delayed, but it could lose its entire marketing appeal. A loss to Zurdo would be Benavidez\u2019s first, and coming back down to light heavyweight after being physically handled at cruiserweight is a tough sell for an undisputed crown.<\/p>\n<p>A Bivol-Benavidez meeting would match Bivol\u2019s disciplined style and experience against Benavidez\u2019s volume punching and size. It is one of the clearest title fights boxing can make, which usually means it still needs help getting over the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol and David Benavidez could still meet for the undisputed light heavyweight championship, and Eddie Hearn says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-553596","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\/553596","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=553596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}