By: Sean Crose
“It was a good fight,” tremendous middleweight David Benavidez says in an interview with FightHype. “I give it to both the guys. I feel this fight builds it up more to make mine and Caleb’s fight that much more exciting.” The arduous hitting and undefeated former world titlist Benavidez is referring to Caleb Plant’s single shot destruction of Anthony Dirrell final weekend at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center. He’s additionally referring to the affect that knockout has along with his personal anticipated bout with Plant.
At the second, Benavidez is predicted to face Jose Uzcategui in January. Should the 25 yr outdated Benavidez show victorious in that endeavor, then he expects {that a} showdown with Plant to go down within the spring. “I think that’s the fight that’s going to happen in May,” Benavidez says within the FightHype interview. “It’s going to be a great fight. I feel that fight’s going to bring the best out of me. I’m just looking forward to it whenever it happens.” A Benavidez-Plant combat can be nothing if not fascinating, for it presents a distinction in kinds that followers may recognize. Plant, being the boxer and Benavidez, along with his almost 90% knockout ratio, being the slugger.
“It’s going to be a fucking hundred percent fight every round. I feel like that’s ultimately what wins fights,” Benavidez says of his type. “I feel like my engine, my stamina, and my power are ultimately going to take over the fight.” Then once more, Plant confirmed he may end up the lights himself final weekend, when a wonderfully positioned left hook despatched two time world titlist Dirrell down and out within the ninth of a scheduled 12. “It’s not the power of Caleb that I need to worry about,” Benavidez argues, including that it’s Plant’s slick boxing abilities that concern him. “That’s where the problems going to be, with me having to catch him and cut the ring off,” he provides.
For his personal half, Plant desires a rematch with Canelo Alvarez, who he carried out nicely towards final yr earlier than being stopped in thunderous style within the eleventh. Benavidez, although, makes his opinion clear. “The only way to get to Canelo is to get through me,” he insists. Benavidez is, in spite of everything, the WBC’s interim tremendous middleweight champion. “If anybody’s going to get a shot at the (world) WBC title,” he says, “it’s me.” There is concern on Benavidez’ half, nevertheless, that boxing politics may get in his method. “I just hope they don’t try to screw me over and put Caleb in front (of the line to face Canelo),” he says.
