{"id":568288,"date":"2026-05-06T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568288\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:04:08","slug":"what-julio-cesar-chavez-said-to-david-benavidez-after-witnessing-ramirez-ko-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568288\/","title":{"rendered":"What Julio Cesar Chavez said to David Benavidez after witnessing Ramirez KO win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/david-benavidez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Benavidez<\/a> rose the pound-for-pound rankings with a sensational stoppage of <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/gilberto-ramirez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gilberto Ramirez<\/a>, and \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 has revealed what boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez told him after the fight.<\/p>\n<p>A former champion at super-middleweight and a reigning light-heavyweight ruler, the 25lb jump up to cruiserweight was expected to push Benavidez to the limit and provide him with a new kind of test. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13539605\/david-benavidez-calls-out-canelo-alvarez-after-destroying-gilberto-zurdo-ramirez-to-capture-the-wba-and-wbo-cruiserweight-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Arizona-born operator passed with flying colours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Benavidez dominated \u2018Zurdo\u2019 Ramirez in a statement performance before a stoppage in round six brought the beatdown to an end, earning him the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the win, Benavidez spoke with Chavez, and in a clip captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/premierboxing\/status\/2050809369135091881?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Premier Boxing Champions<\/a>, the newly crowned unified champion revealed that the Mexican fighting icon told him that he is now convinced by his skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just said that I finally convinced him. I said, \u2018oh, I barely convinced you [before]?\u2019. I thought, I was f***ing doing my best! But, this is what I am here for, people doubt me all of the time, people say that I can\u2019t do nothing and I rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like this [fight]. Tonight, I came in at 202lbs, I only gained two pounds! I am just very happy and very grateful. God is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the fight, Benavidez declared that he would return to the light-heavyweight division, but a challenge for the undisputed cruiserweight title could be possible, whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/jose-benavidez-sr-on-david-challenge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumours of a possible heavyweight move are also being mentioned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez rose the pound-for-pound rankings with a sensational stoppage of Gilberto Ramirez, and \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568288","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\/568288","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=568288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}