Unbeaten two-time world champion David “El Bandera Roja” Benavídez will make his homecoming return to Phoenix in opposition to 168-pound contender Kyrone Davis in a 10-round match that headlines stay on SHOWTIME Saturday, November 13 in a Premier Boxing Champions occasion from Footprint Middle.
Benavídez was initially scheduled to face former world champion Jose Uzcátegui, who was compelled to withdraw resulting from a failed pre-fight drug take a look at.
The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast begins at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT and can function the much-awaited return of longtime contender José Benavídez, the older brother of David Benavídez, going through Argentina’s Francisco Emanuel Torres within the 10-round tremendous welterweight co-main occasion
Tickets for the stay occasion, which is promoted by Sampson Boxing and TGB Promotions, are on sale now and can be found for buy by means of Ticketmaster.com.
Nonetheless simply 24-years-old, Benavídez (24-0, 21 KOs) enters this battle having knocked out his final 4 opponents, together with a September 2019 knockout of two-time tremendous middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell. Benavídez is skilled by his father José Sr., alongside his brother and former title challenger, José Jr. In 2017, he turned the youngest tremendous middleweight champion in boxing historical past by defeating Ronald Gavril on SHOWTIME at simply 20 years previous. Representing his native Phoenix, Ariz., and returning to battle there for the primary time since 2015 on November 13, Benavídez went from a 15-year-old prodigy sparring with Gennady Golovkin and Peter Quillin, to world title contender with a 10-fight knockout streak from 2015 by means of 2017, together with a highlight-reel knockout of Rogelio Medina with a seven-punch mixture that earned him his first title alternative.
A local of Monmouth, N.J., Davis (16-2-1, 6 KO) most just lately received an thrilling September conflict in opposition to Martez McGregor, triumphing by resolution after eight action-packed rounds. Davis had beforehand been spectacular in opposition to the hardest take a look at of his profession, as he fought two-time tremendous middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell to a split-draw in February. It was the 26-year-old’s debut at tremendous middleweight, after starting his profession at middleweight. Davis had received 5 of his six earlier outings heading into the Dirrell conflict. He’s skilled by famend coach Stephen Edwards in Philadelphia, alongside former unified world champion Julian Wiliams.
