Super middleweight break champion David Benavidez showed why he’s perhaps of the best two contender in the division (after champion Canelo Alvarez) by annihilating Caleb Plant through consistent choice Saturday night in Las Vegas. Benavidez rebuffed Plant in the last six rounds to win by scorecards of 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111. Each of the three appointed authorities gave Plant each round from the 6th to the twelfth.
After the battle, Benavidez got down on Alvarez, saying he has “a great deal of regard for Canelo Alvarez, yet he needs to offer me that chance at this point. That is the thing everybody needs to see. We should get it going.
“I don’t think Canelo is attempting to keep away from me. I simply feel like he has a ton of choices. However, presently the fans are requiring this battle, the legends are requiring this battle, so how about we get it going.”
Alvarez is battling John Ryder in May and hopes to confront Dmitry Bivol in a rematch in September, so what should Benavidez’s next battle be in the event that he doesn’t get Alvarez? What’s more, might he at any point beat Alvarez if/when they battle?
Likewise on Saturday, Jose Ramirez made some harder memories than anticipated against Richard Commey in the headliner of a High level card in Fresno, California. In any case, he completed the previous lightweight boss to turn into a top challenger by and by at junior welterweight, a division in which he was a brought together hero only quite a while back.
Ramirez crushed Commey by eleventh round KO, and his next battle could be for a world title at 140 pounds. He got an opportunity to battle WBC champion Regis Prograis last year, yet Ramirez missed the open door after the handbag split was 65-35 for Prograis. Will he/would it be a good idea for him to battle Prograis next?
“I need any best on the planet,” Ramirez said after the battle. “Assuming Regis Prograis doesn’t as a rule mess around with battling, we can plunk down and arrange. How about we plunk down and make the battle.”
In the co-headliner, Seniesa Estrada looked predominant in an uneven triumph over Tina Rupprecht to bring together two strawweight world titles, an initial step to accomplishing her last objective of being an undisputed boss in three divisions when her profession is finished.
“I need to tell the other boss at 105 pounds that I’m beating you next,” Estrada said during her postfight interview. “You can get it next. I’m the most incredible in this division, and I know it. I need to demonstrate it by becoming undisputed.
“When I become undisputed, I need to climb to light flyweight and become undisputed there. And afterward, I need to climb to another weight class and become undisputed there. I want to become undisputed in three unique divisions.”
Could Estrada at any point achieve that? With her style and power, in the event that she can get different bosses in the ring, it seems to be a reasonable assumption.
Mike Coppinger and Michael Rothstein share their takes on every one of the three battles.
