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EPISODE: Episode 58
Anthony David Benavidez is an American professional boxer. He is a two-time WBC super middleweight champion, having held the title from 2017 to 2018 and again from 2019 to 2020.
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Yeah, exactly hey, welcome once again to another exciting episode of neil the deal featuring neil deal himself on talk and fight.
Here we are ready to rock it’s monday, it’s a brand new week who do we have this evening? Neil? What do you got lined up for us? Hey how you doing graeme on this glorious monday afternoon, uh yeah, we had a great weekend: uh yeah police.
I had a good weekend, a little little bit wet but uh the weather’s improving and it’s not snowing anymore.
So i guess we’re doing alrighty exactly yeah a lot better rain than snow.
You know what i’m saying so so yeah we’re going to uh this week.
I decided we’re going to talk about some fighters.
Some united states fighters that i feel uh have a good chance of getting a shot at a world title this year or already our title holders that are going to be involved in some big title fights.
So i think uh the guys that we’re going to talk about this week.
They are gon na, be american guys and uh.
Hey i’m looking forward to it thanks a lot for coming out guys.
I really appreciate it as usual and uh yeah we’re gon na start.
It off tonight with one of my favorite fighters, guys uh newest favorite fighter and i’ve been uh.
I’Ve been watching him now for quite a number of years and he’s amazed me every single fight he’s this guy is amazing.
So we’ll let you know right now we’re going to be talking about an individual named david.
That’S david benavidez now he’s uh.
He is a heck of a fighter all right.
He fights in the super middleweight division and is ranked number two behind canelo funny enough.
So canelo’s, the only guy that basically uh is ahead of him in in the rankings, and i i’ve.
I really think that later on this year, if uh, if the fight between billy joe saunders and canelo goes down, which it will and canelo ends up winning the fight or saunders wins the fight that david benavidez will probably be the next in line for a shot At the title now he’s had a pretty interesting uh career so far, so we’ll just talk about him guys and let you know what’s been going on with them and it’s uh.
It’S been a little bit of a an up and down thing.
The last couple of years, but um he’s he’s right at the ship and he’s ready to go this year, and i understand he’s he’s really really looking to fight uh, the winner of that canelo billy, joe saunders fight on may 8th.
So all right, so david benavidez.
His uh real birth name is anthony david benavidez he’s from phoenix arizona in the united states and his nickname is el bendera roja el bandero roja, so which means in english red flag.
So they call him the red flag but uh.
They always introduce him as the uh el bandera roja.
So i always liked that i thought that was pretty good, agree yeah, but yemen so yeah.
So, like i said earlier on, he was born.
He was born december 17th, 1997, sorry 1996, which makes him 24 years old.
So he’s not very old he’s a young guy, his career started in 2013 and he is presently an active fighter right now.
He began boxing at the age of three years old.
Graham, so that’s about the earliest, i guess you could start boxing is.
Is three right like imagine, i don’t know who he’d be boxing at three, but you know maybe he’s boxing the cat or the dog or, like i don’t know, but it’s pretty funny.
If you ask me really, you know three years old and you’re already uh, you already got the gloves on.
So it’s pretty amazing.
He has an older brother that i have seen fight as well.
His name is jose benavidez.
He fights in the welterweight division and he’s a good fighter too, but david i’m telling you an all-around fighter, graham he’s.
If you watch his fights, he’s got everything going for him.
He’S got punching power he’s got speed.
His job is amazing.
He can keep guys off because he’s a he’s, a tall guy, uh he’s pretty tall.
So he’s got that long job and uh and he’s he’s a great finisher.
He cuts the ring off well, he does just stuff in the ring that he’s only getting better and better, like i say, he’s only 24 years old and he’s been trained since three by his father right, so his father trains, both kids, uh and right to this Day his father still trains him so cool yeah.
That’S that’s pretty amazing.
You know uh his dad his dad’s, a pretty well-known trainer too so um like i’m looking at i’m like i say, he’s, got everything going for him.
Every everything in the arsenal that you can think of benavidez is god all right, and this is why i think this is my honest opinion guys.
This is my honest opinion.
If canelo decides to fight benavidez he’s been ducking him like for quite some time now.
I think canelo is going to have a bit of a problem with david benavidez, i’m telling you and that’s why canelo’s been ducking him and a couple other guys.
There’S a couple other guys out there that that we’re going to talk about later on in future episodes and and canelo just seems to keep not wanting to fight these guys.
I don’t know why, but eventually it’s gon na it’s gon na, come to him.
He’S gon na have to fight these guys.
You know what i mean graham he’s gon na have to he’s gon na have to fight these guys.
There’S no doubt about it.
So he had a a not a very long amateur career.
He was only uh, he had 15 fights, but he had 15 wins, so he was 15-0 as an amateur and i believe that his father felt that he wasn’t really gaining any experience and then that by staying in the amateur ranks he didn’t he didn’t really compete.
In the olympics or anything of that sort, so he basically went right into being a pro uh, quite young.
So we’ll talk a little bit about his pro totals now as of right now he has uh 24 fights under his belt 24 pro bite fights and he has 24 wins, graham, so he is 24 and oh all, right.
He’S 24-0 he’s got 21 knockouts guys.
So look at the knockout par for a guy.
This is what a canelo is going to have a problem with this guy can knock you out pretty quickly like and he’s done it many many times in his fights 21 out of 24.
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That gives him a knockout percentage of 87.
5.
He doesn’t have a lot of ring experience.
That’S the one thing i’m a little concerned about.
He only has 108 rounds, so his fights average about four between four and five rounds of fight.
I mean in his earlier days.
He was just taking guys out in one round, but he as as the competition gets harder and harder.
As we all know, the fights seem to go a little longer and longer because you know he’s fighting better guys, that’s just basically it so they can uh.
They they’re more experienced and they can they can stick in there, but david benavidez has been literally lighting them, lighten them up.
Big time, smoke show completely and uh for a guy.
His size, like i said, he’s, got speed man in the hands and when he smells blood, he takes him down.
He he cuts that ring off and – and he really lays a beating on these guys, he’s he’s a smart fighter.
If you know what i mean he’s got a really high boxing iq, i mean starting at three and your father being a trainer that would explain a lot of it right.
So he’s been fantastic, any fight, i’ve seen him and he’s been fantastic.
So let’s go over some of the uh, some of the stuff that he did as a uh as a pro right, so he made his pro debut.
He was only 16 years old.
Graham, he started as a pro um at 16 years old in uh 2015, which would have been two years into his uh pro career.
He won the nabf, which is the north american boxing federation junior light heavyweight title.
He does fight in, like i said, super middleweight and light heavyweight division.
So he’s now basically he’s he’s in the super middleweight division, mostly right now, but he can move up at any time.
Just like canelo moved up right.
So he’s not he’s been calling him out too, so this this could go down for sure for sure.
This is why i’m talking about him today, i’m really looking forward to this.
So in 2015 he won the nabf junior light heavyweight title 2017.
He won his first world championship, the wbc super middleweight title in 2017, then in 2018 he uh fought amazing fighter named andre darrell, all right and uh, and he won the title right there.
He wanted uh for a second time against darrell and uh after the fight.
I think it was about 10 days later his uh.
He had a banned substance in his in his system and he was stripped graham of the title and guys he got stripped of his title and he was suspended for four months because of this uh banned substance.
By the wbc, so he technically didn’t lose his title in the ring.
He got it stripped off him.
So that’s why i’m thinking he’s he’s coming back with a vengeance to get that title back, because he he didn’t lose it in the ring so and he’s undefeated.
So there’s not much more.
You can say that he’s got to get another shot at this, so he was cleared to fight that was in 2018.
He was cleared to fight mark in march 2019 and uh.
He did have the one fight uh.
His last fight was march 13th 2021, which was just recently, which i watched and he fought a guy named ronald ellis and he tko’d him in the 11th round.
So that’s his comeback, fight now kind of a prepper uh and it was a great fight.
So the fights that i would be looking out, you know, if you guys want to check out uh david benavidez on youtube check out some of his fights, the ones that i’ve seen that i really liked were uh benavidez versus anthony darrell.
That was a great fight.
Uh benavidez versus ronald gavriel, he fought him twice.
Gavril and those were really really really good fights.
Graham ronald gavriel was no pushover.
The first one went the distance and the second one i believe, um benavidez uh, knocked him out in the second in the rematch, and then he also fought a couple.
A guy named rogelio medina.
I love that fight with rogelio medina.
It was.
It was a super good fight and, and in those fights it basically, it showcases his skills.
You know he he’s got everything in the arsenal for a guy of his size, he’s a pretty big guy and uh and he’s tall.
So that gives him that reach and that really stiff jab, that he can keep guys off him with the stiff jab, and he really knows how to throw it.
So he can knock you out uppercuts anything his body punching is fantastic.
He literally, he goes upstairs downstairs.
All around stairs up the middle uppercuts hooks left hook straight right, it’s like he and andy and they’re coming from everywhere.
So, like i say so, my prediction, uh, i was going to say, is if the billy, joe saunders and canelo fight when it goes down the winner of that i i hope he gets a shot at that and uh.
I believe he deserves it.
You know and because, like i say he didn’t lose his title by in the ring, so i truly believe he’s still in my mind, he’s still undefeated he’s still a title holder and he’s coming back to to get what’s rightfully his.
If you know what i mean so keep your eyes out for this, this guy going forward.
Guys is here david benavidez he’s going to be fantastic and uh.
Have you have you seen him fight? Graham yourself, benavidez i’ve only seen the the highlights of several of his prominent fights, so i’ve got to say i agree with you.
Yeah he’s something to look out for.
I also agree with you uh that, if canelo moves forward, if he can move forward, possibly joe saunders great and if he can, then they should set them up and i’m just saying i don’t think it’s really up to the fighters where they pick and choose like You’Re saying he’s ducking fights, but i think it’s more a question: their management personnel sitting there going we’re gon na match up against this guy because we know he can beat this guy over.
This guy’s got a perfect record.
Even though he’s a tomato can you know at the end of the day, i think it’s more about the management here than because you know if you’re going to drop the gloves you fight, i think any fighter worth assault is going to fight the guy he’s facing.
So i don’t really think it’s fair to say that he’s ducking fights but because i don’t think canelo alvarez is that kind of guy who duck fights.
You know you call him out he’s gon na.
Take you on and uh.
You know it’s not that easy, though.
So realistically, given all these things you presented this evening, yeah dave gon na be easy, easy he’s a good challenger to have in mind there.
He really is i’d like to see it.
I personally like to see it i’m with you on this one yeah right on yeah for sure that’s cool, graham um, like i say i think he deserves it.
He’S uh he’s undefeated and uh.
Like i say, if you check out any of his fights, you’ll see you’ll see why he’s undefeated and he’s uh he’s ready to go.
He’S literally he’s ready to go and he wants another shot at the title.
So we’ll see how that goes.
Let’S we can only hope for the best, for you, david thanks a lot so far for the great career.
You know and we’re looking forward to your fights coming up this year and uh we’ll be cheering for you i’ll definitely be cheering for me.
I really like them so thanks a lot guys for coming out tonight, really appreciate it.
As usual, we’re going to talk a little more about some of these uh fights fighters that are going to be fighting for world titles this week and uh or guys, i believe, could be fighting for world titles and guys who actually hold titles so hold them, and Maybe lose them because there’s guys there’s always somebody there’s always somebody coming up.
You know – and it’s always great to be the champion, as you know, graham right – it’s always i’m the champion, but at that point and everybody’s coming to coming after you.
So it’s going to be interesting.
The uh the shows later this week and i’m really looking forward to it thanks a lot guys for coming out.
I really appreciate it again and uh the likes.
The shares the subscriptions have been great and uh.
The views have been going up like crazy, so we really appreciate it drive yourselves a good evening, we’ll see you tomorrow, night 7 p.
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Eastern standard time, neil the deal take care of yourselves guys talk to you soon, bye for now, thanks neil! What’S up tomorrow, night
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