Former two-time WBC tremendous middleweight champion David Benavidez found final week that he’s not in Canelo Alvarez’s plans for his two fights in 2024.
What this implies is Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) might want to proceed to bide his time by combating non-stars in lower-paying fights, ready for a possibility which will by no means come to problem Canelo for his undisputed tremendous middleweight championship.
Definitely, Benavidez can keep at 168 if he needs, holding himself in limbo and certain being ignored by the one fighter he’s desirous about combating within the weight class, Canelo Alvarez.
Benavidez is type of like a man who has been rejected constantly by a lady. However as an alternative of getting the trace, he retains hounding, hoping she’ll change her thoughts in the future. As a substitute, she reviews him for stalking or goes to HR and informs them of the harassment.
In Benavidez’s case, he must get the trace that Canelo is NOT desirous about combating him, and he NEVER will. He wants to know this and cease considering that Alvarez will ultimately give him the shot he’s been pleading for all these years. If it had been meant to be, Canelo would have fought him again in 2018 when he nonetheless held the WBC 168-lb title.
Mild Heavyweight Provides New Glory
Most would agree that it’s time for the 27-year-old Benavidez to maneuver as much as gentle heavyweight [175 lbs] and look to reinvent himself in that weight class in opposition to the killers Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
With Benavidez’s reputation, he may rapidly get a shot on the Beterbiev-Bivol winner after the 2 combat twice. Whoever emerges victorious from their fights will gladly combat a well-liked fighter like Benavidez.
Nevertheless, what’s unclear is that if Benavidez and his dad, Jose Sr., could be enthusiastic about the opportunity of combating Artur Beterbiev if he’s the one who emerges because the winner of these fights. We’ve all heard the tales about Benavidez’s success in his sparring with Bivol, however he’s not anticipated to be the winner of his combat with Beterbiev.
So if Benavidez does transfer as much as 175, he’s acquired to be keen to face the Beterbiev and take care of no matter might transpire from a conflict of that sort. You hate to say it, however Benavidez may get uncovered by Beterbiev and proven to be a weight bully who couldn’t deal with it when he was pressured to combat somebody his measurement.
