By Allan Fox: David Benavidez (24-0, 21 KOs) shall be battling alternative opponent Kyrone Davis (16-2-1, 6 KOs) in a scheduled 10 spherical bout on Showtime on November thirteenth after his beforehand scheduled opponent Jose Uzcategui examined constructive for a banned substance and was subsequently pulled from the cardboard.
Benavidez-Davis shall be going down on the Footprint Heart in Phoenix, Arizona. With it being a 10-round battle as an alternative of 12, it’s doubtless now not going to be an IBF/WBC 168-lb title eliminator as beforehand scheduled.
BENAVIDEZ WITH SHOWCASE FIGHT
This clearly isn’t the best alternative for Benavidez in being given second-tier fighter Kyrone Davis, nevertheless it’s higher than nothing. Benavidez will be capable of showcase his expertise towards a man that doesn’t belong inside the identical ring as him on November thirteenth.
Davis would doubtless be overmatched towards Benavidez’s smaller brother, welterweight Jose Benavidez Jr. We’re speaking mismatch.
It could have been higher if an precise prime 15 contenders had been discovered for use as a alternative opponent for Benavidez, however he’s too harmful for any of the opposite promoters to volunteer one among their fighters to face him on brief discover.
Kyrone gained’t final lengthy towards Benavidez, however hopefully, he could make a battle of it earlier than he will get chopped down.
Benavidez, 24, is clearly disillusioned at seeing his battle with former IBF 168-lb champion Uzcategui falling aside after he reportedly examined constructive for the banned substance rEPO throughout a VADA check in October twenty seventh.
It could have been attention-grabbing to see how Benavidez would have performed towards Uzcategui, as briefly held the IBF tremendous middleweight title from 2018 to 2019 earlier than shedding it to Caleb Plant.
The 26-year-old Kyrone Davis fought to a 12 spherical draw towards 37-year-old former two-time WBC tremendous middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell final February in Los Angeles. This wasn’t a primary model of Dirrell, nevertheless.
It’s unlikely that Davis would have performed practically as nicely towards a primary model of Dirrell as a result of he was a wonderful fighter throughout his day.
BENAVIDEZ WANTS A TITLE SHOT
In 2018, Kyrone misplaced a ten spherical unanimous determination to Patrick Day and in 2016, he was crushed by Junior Castillo by an eight spherical unanimous determination.
Kyrone’s greatest wins have come towards Marcos Hernandez and Jaime Barboza. These aren’t precisely family names, however neither is Kyrone.
It most likely doesn’t matter as a result of WBA/WBC/WBO tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez isn’t doubtless going to defend towards the winner of the Benavidez vs. Davis battle even when it was a title eliminator.
Canelo will doubtless vacate all 4 belts if he defeats IBF champion Caleb Plant of their undisputed conflict on November sixth after which transfer as much as 175 to go after the champions in that weight class.
If Canelo vacates some or all of his tremendous middleweight titles, Benavidez will go after one among them towards the highest-ranked contender.
