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Anthony David Benavidez (born December 17, 1996) is an American professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) interim light heavyweight title since June 2024, having previously held the WBC super middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2020.
Benavidez was stripped of the title after testing positive for cocaine and was named champion in recess. [35] 27 Anthony Dirrell (2) (def. Avni Yildirim) 23 Feb – 28 Sep 2019 0 28 David Benavidez (2) 28 Sep 2019 – 14 Aug 2020 0 Benavidez was stripped of the title after failing to make weight for his fight against Roamer Alexis Angulo. [36] 29
David Benavidez † September 8, 2017 Super middleweight (M) 1 151 Ray Beltrán: February 16, 2018 Lightweight (M) 0 − José Ramírez † March 17, 2018 Light welterweight (M & M) 4 152 Jaime Munguía: May 12, 2018 Light middleweight (M) 5 − Carlos Licona † December 1, 2018 Minimumweight (M) 0 153 Emanuel Navarrete: December 8, 2018
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
On November 3, 2022, Plant and David Benavidez both revealed that they had agreed terms to face each other. [45] The fight was scheduled as the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view, which took place on March 25, 2023, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite starting off the fight fast, Benavidez found a way back and Plant ...
José Luis Benavidez Jr. (born May 15, 1992) is an American professional boxer who challenged for the WBO welterweight title in 2018. He is the brother of two-time WBC super middleweight champion David Benavidez .
Following Smith's entry into the World Boxing Super Series, it was announced the fight for the vacant title would be between Dirrell and David Benavidez. [4] [5] On August 5, the WBC announced that Dirrell would be unable to compete due to injury and the bout for the vacant world title would be between Benavidez and Ronald Gavril. [6]
This is a chronological List of World Super Middleweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: . The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA),