{"id":561465,"date":"2026-05-01T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:42:07","slug":"david-benavidez-responds-to-team-canelo-saying-the-fight-will-never-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561465\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez responds to team Canelo saying the fight will never happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benavidez<\/a> has once again been asked about the prospect of ever taking on long-term rival Canelo Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Benavidez and Canelo have been linked to a showdown for a number of years, but it has never materialised and both men have instead gone down different paths.<\/p>\n

Since 2020, Canelo has had all but one of his fights at 168lbs, while Benavidez chose to move up to 175lbs where he has become the WBC light heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 attempts to become a three-division world champion this weekend when debuts at cruiserweight to face Gilberto Ramirez<\/a>, but now fighting 32lbs above Canelo, it seems Benavidez hasn\u2019t given up hope of the bout happening.<\/p>\n

In a clip captured by FightHype<\/a>, Benavidez shared his latest thoughts on Canelo, who is set to be in attendance for Saturday\u2019s bill in order to support stablemate Jaime Munguia, who competes on the card.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big event, you can tell the magnitude of a big event because Canelo didn\u2019t even go to Jaime Munguia\u2019s last fight. He says it\u2019s for Munguia but he\u2019s coming to see me up close and personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s to scout for the next fight or anything I don\u2019t know. But you see how everything plays out, I went to his fights now he\u2019s coming to my fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canelo\u2019s trainer Eddy Reynoso has recently dismissed any chance of a fight with Benavidez taking place<\/a>, but \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 insists he\u2019s not paying attention to those comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going up and fighting up for two titles at another weight class, I\u2019m focused on this. Everybody can say what they want to say, I\u2019m locked in to my s**t right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before any possible clash with Canelo could even be discussed, Benavidez must first deal with Ramirez on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez has once again been asked about the prospect of ever taking on long-term rival Canelo Alvarez.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561465","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\/561465","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=561465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}