{"id":398667,"date":"2025-11-23T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398667\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:41:12","slug":"phoenixs-david-benavidez-wins-again-has-big-next-fight-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398667\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix&#8217;s David Benavidez wins again, has big next fight announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87362239007-2247503921.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>David Benavidez describes impact of family support, boxing future<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix native boxer David Benavidez on having family in Saudi Arabia for his upcoming fight, and how he approaches his career as a world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix native David Benavidez retained his WBC light heavyweight title and stayed undefeated Nov. 22-23, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by stopping Anthony Yarde in the seventh round of their main event boxing bout.<\/p>\n<p>Benavidez (31-0) was in control throughout the fight, at one point unleashing a barrage of left-handed shots to Yarde, who just couldn&#8217;t block them. After the fight was stopped, Benavidez dropped some news about his next fight.<\/p>\n<p>He announced live on the DAZN pay-per-view broadcast that his next fight will be against Mexican cruiserweight Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ramirez, the WBO cruiserweight champion. The fight will take place, Benavidez said, on Cinco de Mayo weekend, an annual set of calendar dates typically reserved for boxing&#8217;s blockbuster fights.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez is a few years older and a little taller than Benavidez, but doesn&#8217;t have the resum\u00e9 of quality fights that Benavidez has. Ramirez&#8217;s biggest name opponent was Dmitri Bivol in 2022, the only fight Ramirez has lost in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Benavidez seemed to really enjoy his first trip to the Middle East. He had his wife and son with him, and the youngster was a big part of Benavidez&#8217;s weigh-in, throwing punches while walking in front of his dad, and also walking out with the Benavidez corner before the fight with Yarde, dressed in traditional Saudi garments.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 M. Romero can be reached at jose.romero@gannett.com. Follow him on X at @RomeroJoseM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez describes impact of family support, boxing future Phoenix native boxer David Benavidez on having family in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,19690,5643,1587,21354,2489,1801,2491,942,50,450,950,1589,19689,271,62,1458,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-398667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arabia","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-boxing","tag-competitions","tag-international","tag-international-sports-competitions","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-phoenix","tag-saudi","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115597888315031222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}