{"id":600244,"date":"2026-05-23T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:04:09","slug":"canelo-responds-to-david-benavidez-offering-him-title-fight-at-light-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600244\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo responds to David Benavidez offering him title fight at light heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has had his say on the latest callout from David Benavidez<\/a> for a showdown between the pair.<\/p>\n

Canelo and Benavidez have been linked to a fight with one another for a number of years, dating back to when the two men were both competing at super-middleweight.<\/p>\n

While Canelo remains one of the key fighters at 168lbs, Benavidez has since moved up the divisions, first becoming WBC light heavyweight champion before claiming a win over Gilberto Ramirez earlier this month<\/a> to earn the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles.<\/p>\n

Following that victory, Benavidez has been linked to fights against the likes of Dmitry Bivol<\/a> and Jai Opetaia<\/a>, but he again made it clear that he would offer Canelo a shot at his 175lb WBC belt.<\/p>\n

Canelo has now responded, revealing in a media scrum with Boxing News<\/a> that he isn\u2019t surprised that Benavidez called him out again, but doubts whether \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 can even make the light heavyweight limit anymore after his move to cruiserweight.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single boxer in any division is calling me out. It\u2019s nothing new to me. He did good in the fight [against Ramirez]. I\u2019m not surprised [he called me out], but I don\u2019t think he can make 175 anymore. It\u2019s not my problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canelo has competed at 175lbs on two previous occasions, but for now a move to light heavyweight seems unlikely, with his current focus on his world title opportunity against WBC super-middleweight champion Christian Mbilli<\/a> in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has had his say on the latest callout from David Benavidez for a showdown between the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600244","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\/600244","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=600244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}