{"id":561341,"date":"2026-05-01T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:12:08","slug":"ryan-garcia-sees-only-one-winner-as-david-benavidez-moves-up-to-face-zurdo-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561341\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia sees only one winner as David Benavidez moves up to face &#8216;Zurdo&#8217; Ramirez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> is the latest big name to offer his thoughts on Saturday\u2019s clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/david-benavidez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Benavidez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/gilberto-ramirez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gilberto Ramirez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest fights of the year so far takes place at the at the T-Mobile Arena this weekend as \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 heads up to cruiserweight to challenge Ramirez for his WBA and WBO titles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/48618901\/can-david-benavidez-all-action-style-make-boxing-next-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Benavidez is the reigning WBC light heavyweight champion<\/a>, and now attempts to earn world honours in a third division having also previously reigned at super-middleweight.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a difficult task against Ramirez though, who has won 48 of his 49 professional bouts, with his only blemish coming against Dmitry Bivol back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With the fight quickly approaching, WBC welterweight champion Garcia has made his prediction for the match-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanGarcia\/status\/2049679600406691934?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">posting on social media<\/a> to reveal that he is backing Benavidez to win inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorner stoppage round 8 in favor of Benavidez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benavidez has displayed big power throughout his career, as 25 of his 31 wins have come by knockout, the most recent of those occurring during his last outing in November when he stopped Anthony Yarde in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Competing at 200lbs could be a whole different prospect though, and with Ramirez having won all of his cruiserweight bouts in fairly convincing fashion, it would be a big statement if \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 is indeed able to claim a stoppage victory.<\/p>\n<p>One man who doesn\u2019t think Benavidez will be capable of achieving that is Oscar De La Hoya, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/de-la-hoya-on-benavidez-vs-ramirez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who has questioned the challenger\u2019s chin ahead of the bout.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia is the latest big name to offer his thoughts on Saturday\u2019s clash between David Benavidez and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561341","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\/561341","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=561341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}