{"id":564131,"date":"2026-05-03T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:49:07","slug":"canelo-explains-why-he-left-the-arena-instead-of-watching-david-benavidez-ko-zurdo-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564131\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo explains why he left the arena instead of watching David Benavidez KO ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has explained why he exited the T-Mobile Arena just as David Benavidez<\/a> was gearing up to deliver a ruthless performance against Gilberto Ramirez.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 became a three-weight world champion by beating Ramirez<\/a>, who was relieved of his WBO and WBA cruiserweight titles via a sixth-round stoppage.<\/p>\n

Prior to the finish, Benavidez had scored a fourth-round knockdown in his first outing at 200lbs, where his speed represents a key advantage against naturally bigger opposition.<\/p>\n

That much became strikingly apparent for Ramirez, who was made to climb off the canvas for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n

There was little hope for a remarkable turnaround, then, when the 34-year-old was floored a second time and remained on his knee, experiencing a nasty swelling on his right eye.<\/p>\n

Shortly after getting his hand raised, Benavidez called out former undisputed super-middleweight champion Canelo<\/a>, who was only in attendance for Jaime Munguia\u2019s undercard clash with Armando Resendiz.<\/p>\n

Supporting his stablemate, Alvarez watched on as Munguia dethroned Resendiz with a unanimous decision victory<\/a>, which saw him claim the WBA world title at 168lbs.<\/p>\n

After that, though, Canelo was in no mood to hang around, telling Fight Hub TV<\/a> that he had no intention of watching the main event from ringside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just came to see Jaime Mungia.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Canelo has never expressed much enthusiasm for their potential showdown, it nonetheless appears that Benavidez is still holding on to a slither of hope.<\/p>\n

Either way, the WBC light-heavyweight champion is likely to move back down to 175lbs, perhaps in pursuit of an undisputed encounter with Dmitry Bivol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has explained why he exited the T-Mobile Arena just as David Benavidez was gearing up to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-564131","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\/564131","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=564131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}