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He sparred with seasoned professionals and shed the weight within a year, eventually earning an invitation to Gennady Golovkins’s training camp in Big Bear, California - and the chance to spar with the former middleweight king. That triggered a move to Los Angeles, where Benavidez reunited with his father and resumed his intensive training. “I didn’t want to be that type of person anymore. “People were making fun of me behind my back,” he said. Insecurities emerged as his confidence crumbled. He would skip school to sleep and gain 100 pounds in one year as the calories compounded. Without his father keeping tabs on his training, David Benavidez veered toward fast food and away from boxing. David followed and admired his older brother, an accomplished amateur who moved in 2009 with their father to Los Angeles, leaving little brother behind to live with his mother. So he began training his two sons in their garage and backyard, beginning when David was 2.

I’m going to make animals so they can defend themselves.’” “When I was growing up, I thought, ‘Whenever I had family, I’m going to be there to protect them. Anything you can think of,” said the elder Benavidez, whose namesake, Jose Jr., was once the WBA’s interim 140-pound titlist. He hails from Phoenix and trained under the tutelage of his father, a Mexican immigrant who endured a troubled childhood and sought to shield his sons from the horrors of humanity. Like Tyson, Benavidez indulged too much in temptation - moving from Las Vegas to Seattle to mitigate the desire.

Like Tyson, Benavidez pressures opponents relentlessly - packing pop in the punches he throws from seemingly every angle with hand speed more suited for a welterweight. #BenavidezPlant #Showtime #PPV /5T1kT5nOXg The Mexican Monster moniker was bestowed upon Benavidez by heavyweight legend Mike Tyson, who attended fight week festivities this week and mingled for a moment with his proverbial protege. “You can lose anything you’ve worked for so hard in a matter of seconds.” “Thank God we caught that early in his career,” his father and trainer, Jose Benavidez Sr., said. Twice the WBC’s 168-pound champion - and the youngest in the division’s history - Benavidez was stripped of his title once for using cocaine and a second time for missing weight. The only challenges more consequential than the one posed by Plant (22-1, 13 KOs) were the ones Benavidez faced internally, conquered only by the focus he now harnesses. … I’m manifesting everything I said I was going to do.”īenavidez (26-0, 23 knockouts) can cinch his superstardom Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden by beating Caleb Plant, an equally driven former champion who represents one of the most significant challenges of his career. “ I told myself I was going to be one of the best world champions and one of the best of my generation.

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I had to conquer weight,” says Benavidez, now 26 and free from the mischievousness of his youth. He no longer sees the bloated, blubbery 260-pounder who lacked the discipline to make his dream come true. When David Benavidez looks into a mirror, he sees one of best boxing’s super middleweights, equipped with the charisma and power to become one of the sport’s next stars - and the lean, chiseled physique befitting a fighter of his caliber. (Erik Verduzco / Las Vegas Review-Journal) In 2017 he fought Canelo Alvarez and lost by unanimous decision in Las Vegas.David Benavidez, left, and Caleb Plant, face off during a weigh-in event in advance of their super middleweight title bout, at the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Friday, March 24, 2023. He was WBC Middleweight world champion in 2011 when he defeated Sebastian Zbik, a title he lost in 2012 when he lost to Argentine Sergio 'Maravilla' Martinez. His record so far, at the age of 37, is 35-6-1. has not fought since 2021, the year in which he had a couple of fights: one he lost by split decision to Anderson Silva in June and the second he won by unanimous decision against David Zegarra in December. 'There's been a lot of shit going on around me, but here I am, all good.' I'm going to fight in January or February, I'm healthy and ready for that,' he said to Boxing King. The boxer was interviewed at the fight between Devin Haney and Regis Prograis over the weekend in San Francisco.

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58 year old professional boxer gets brutally knocked out within seconds (Video)īut Junior has denied on several occasions such problems and is already thinking of returning to the ring.

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