David Benavidez has no shortage of HUGE fights on his radar. In an exclusive interview with BoxingScene, Jose Benavidez Sr. makes it clear that David still wants the biggest names at 175lbs including Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev. Benavidez has previously said those are two fights he wants to make as he pursues more titles and major challenges. But there’s another name that could make things very interesting: Andy Ruiz Jr. Jose discusses the possibility of an all-Mexican showdown between Benavidez and the former heavyweight champion, along with David’s plans across multiple divisions. And with a potential Jai Opetaia showdown also building after the pair came face-to-face following Opetaia’s latest victory, Benavidez has some massive options ahead.
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By Rick Reeno
Golden Boy Promotions COO David Itskowitch advised BoxingScene.com that there is no controversy with the scorecards for Saturday's fight involving light heavyweights Jean Pascal and Bernard Hopkins.
Pascal retained his WBC/IBO titles with a twelve round majority decision. Two of judges, Quebec’s Claude Paquette [113-113] and Belgium’s Daniel Van de Wiele [114-114], had it scored a draw. Steve Morrow of California had it for Hopkins, 114-112.
Following the end result, there was some minor controversy as there were allegations that two of the cards, which had it a draw, were altered with white-out to change the scoring of certain rounds from Hopkins to Pascal.
According to Itskowitch, the cards were only altered with white-out on the "copies that were given to the media." There were mistakes made when the originals were transcribed over to the copies that were issued to the media, and white-out was used to correct the media copies.
Golden Boy reviewed the original cards, and the individual scoring slips that were submitted by the judges.
"They checked out, they were fine," said Itskowitch to BoxingScene.com.
The WBC is planning to order an immediate rematch between Hopkins and Pascal.
