{"id":85255,"date":"2025-11-23T05:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/benavidez-demolishes-yarde-and-challenges-zurdo-ramirez-for-cruiserweight-title\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:52:30","slug":"benavidez-demolishes-yarde-and-challenges-zurdo-ramirez-for-cruiserweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/benavidez-demolishes-yarde-and-challenges-zurdo-ramirez-for-cruiserweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Benavidez Demolishes Yarde and Challenges Zurdo Ram\u00edrez for Cruiserweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>David Benavidez Shows His Power and Aims for Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ramirez<\/h2>\n\nDavid Benavidez solidified his dominance in boxing by defeating Anthony Yarde on Saturday, retaining his WBC and WBA super-middleweight titles. Following the victory, he announced his plans to challenge Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ramirez, WBO and WBA cruiserweight champion, in May.\n\nBenavidez (31-0, 25 KOs) achieved a resounding technical knockout (TKO) victory over Yarde (27-4, 24 KOs). The fight, held at the ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, saw Benavidez knock down Yarde in the seventh round, ending the match with a series of punches at 1 minute and 59 seconds.\n\nThe fight was dominated by Benavidez, who imposed his rhythm with effective combinations to his opponent&#8217;s body and head.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1123%2Fr1579387_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>David Benavidez, a la izquierda, logr\u00f3 su primera victoria por detenci\u00f3n en 175 libras antes de anunciar planes para subir al peso crucero para desafiar a Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ram\u00edrez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;He entered the Monster&#8217;s world and was knocked out,&#8221; declared Benavidez, known as &#8220;The Mexican Monster.&#8221; &#8220;This is incredible. I am very happy with this. I have news. On May 2nd, Zurdo Ram\u00edrez, I am going up to challenge for his title.&#8221;<\/p><cite>David Benavidez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis was Benavidez&#8217;s third appearance in the light heavyweight category and his first stoppage victory at this weight. His two previous fights at 175 pounds resulted in decision victories against David Morell and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.\n\nBenavidez took approximately four rounds to unleash his full potential against Yarde, but once he did, the control was total. The situation for Yarde deteriorated in the sixth round, when Benavidez responded to a good uppercut from Yarde with a demonstration of power in the center of the ring. This blow seemed to motivate Benavidez even more, who dominated the rest of the round and the fight.\n\nIf the fight materializes, Benavidez would face another Mexican champion, Ramirez (48-1, 30 KOs). Ramirez&#8217;s last defeat was by decision against Dmitry Bivol in a non-title fight in November 2022.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Benavidez Shows His Power and Aims for Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ramirez David Benavidez solidified his dominance in boxing by defeating Anthony Yarde on Saturday, retaining his WBC and WBA super-middleweight titles. Following the victory, he announced his plans to challenge Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ramirez, WBO and WBA cruiserweight champion, in May. Benavidez (31-0, 25 KOs) achieved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5307,205,5308,10583],"class_list":{"0":"post-85255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-yarde","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-david-benavidez","11":"tag-gilberto-ramirez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}