David Benavidez vs. Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez: High-Voltage Fight for the WBA and WBO Cruiserweight Championships
Benavidez moves up from light heavyweight seeking a third division title as Ramirez brings a 48-1 record into the cruiserweight main event.
- On Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez defended his WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles against two-division champion David Benavidez in a bout aired on PBC PPV on Prime Video.
- Entering the bout, Ramirez held a 48-1 record with 30 KOs, while Benavidez moved up to cruiserweight with a 31-0 record and 25 KOs, seeking to become a three-division champion.
- After going 5-1 at light heavyweight, Ramirez has gone the distance in each of his four cruiserweight bouts, including a unanimous decision victory over Yuniel Dorticos last June.
- Also on the card, Jose Armando Resendiz defended his WBA super middleweight title against Jaime Munguia, who entered with a 45-2 record and 35 KOs.
- Benavidez continues to pursue his goal of unifying boxing titles, having previously discussed a potential matchup against Canelo Alvarez as he seeks to advance his championship legacy.
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The ‘City of Sin’ lives a power-to-power fight between two of the best Mexican pugilists today: Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramírez and David Benavidez lead the stellar fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, within the special boxing billboard for the weekend of May 5. ‘Zurdo’ Ramírez arrives as champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA) and the World Boxing Organization (WCO) in the 200 pounds and seeks to maintain his dominance in the division aft…
Las Vegas. David Benavidez will seek today the feat of becoming the first boxing champion in supermedium, semiweight and cruise, in this last division only if he defeats Gilberto Zurdo Ramírez, monarch of the AMB and the OMB, in the stellar fight at the T-Mobile Arena of Las Vegas, United States.
LAS VEGAS.- Expressions that exhibit the faces of American David Benavidez and Mexican Gilberto Zurdo Ramírez are peculiar. They find it difficult to laugh and find warmth and harmony in them. They denounce all the difficulties that it turns out to survive in the wildest regions of the American West and to arrive intact to fulfill a dream in the middle of youth. And this is common in both. They will encourage this midnight one of the most expect…
By Edgar Aviles, CNN en Español. This Saturday, the American boxer of Mexican and Ecuadorian descent, David Benavidez, will step into the ring to headline the weekend's most anticipated boxing match against Mexican Gilberto Ramírez. "El Zurdo" (The Lefty) will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight titles. The fight will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both boxers have a…
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