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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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Super middleweight Oliver Zaren headlined here Saturday at the Hotel Crown Plaza in his first 10-rounder, winning a wide unanimous decision over Joseph Maigwisya.
Scores were 100-88, 99-90 and 100-89.
“The Great Dane” Zaren, from nearby Roskilde, was cut by his right eye after a clash of heads in the ninth. No longer trained by Mikkel Kessler, Zaren, now 17-0 (7 KOs), is starting to put it together and is looking better and better with each fight.
Tanzania’s Maigwisya, who was down in the seventh and hurt in the 10th, fell to 14-4 (10 KOs).
Elsewhere on the card, heavyweight Gustav Thorsen, 6-0 (4 KOs) outscored Poland’s Jakub Sosinski, 8-11-1 (3 KOs) in a six-rounder. Sosinski was hurt in the second by a right hand and suffered a busted nose, but he battled it out to the end and appeared to stun the Dane with a left hook in the fifth. Scores were 60-53 (twice) and 60-51.
Melissa Mortensen, 6-0 (3 KOs) dropped Tanzania’s Halima Vujnabel, 16-14-1 (10 KOs), twice in the second round but had to settle for a wide points win after eight two-minute rounds. Judges scored it 80-70 on all cards.
Danish junior lightweight Ahmad El Ahmad, 9-0 (2 KOs), overcame a bad start and cuts around both eyes to outscore Italy’s Leonardo Faretina, 8-7-1 (3 KOs) over six. Scores were 59-55 (twice) and 60-54.
The cut around Ahmad’s right eye was pretty nasty and could well have led to the fight being stopped.
Norwegian junior welterweight Sayed Kazemi, 4-1 (2 KOs) lost a close majority decision to Danish debutant Maher Khatib in a hard-fought six-rounder that was scored 59-55 and 58-56 for Khatib and 57-57. The fight went back and forth, with both having their moments. Kazemi landed with the cleaner punches, but Khatib kept coming and got the win.
Danish junior lightweight Elias Faour, 3-0 (1 KO) outclassed Moldova’s Ilie Munteanu, 1-6-1 (1 KO) in a fast-paced and wild four-rounder. Faour was never able to hurt his opponent, but he won easily on scores of 40-35 (twice) and 40-36.
In the show opener, Swedish welterweight Mohammed Al Maliki, 4-2 (0 KOs), outscored Bazargur Jugder, 16-43-4 (7 KOs) – a native of Mongolia now based in the Czech Republic – in a one-sided six-rounder that was scored 60-53 (twice) and 60-54.
Jugder, who turned 46 today, knew how to survive.
