If David Benavidez really wants to fight Canelo, He should move up and grab a LHW title instead of facing Angulo at a catchweight of 171lbs or former 154lber Kyrone at a catchweight of 169lbs

[BigDramaShow!]

David Benavidez started the first 3 yrs of his career at Light Heavyweight.

https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/672259

Now, he can barely make the SMW limit fighting 2 times at a catchweight in his last 3 fights (171lbs, 169lbs and 169lbs)

If he really wants to fight Canelo, he should fight Beterbiev, Bivol and Smith Jr. And try to grab a lhw title.

Canelo’s going to move down to 175 anyway to fight one of Beterbiev/Bivol/Smith Jr after Makabu. David needs to get a LHW belt to force a Canelo fight instead of fighting the Lemieux’s of the world. Thoughts?

[paulf]

No way, Benavidez is already a big enough name/hyped enough that a Canelo-Benavidez PPV would do crazy numbers.

Fighting those guys is 50-50 for far, far less money. Benavidez handlers better keep him fighting Lemeiuxs in 2022 and see if the Canelo fight happens. If it doesnt, then You send him into a title fight.

[Street]

I agree.

Why sit tight next to a phone waiting for Canelo to call?

Benavidez needs to flank Canelo by capturing the 175 lbs WBC championship which Canelo will want after his return from the cruiserweight division.

Boxing is like a game of chess in and out of the ring in every aspect of the word and Benavidez, Charlo and Andrade need to start making moves.

[Outwest Exp 355]

Not a bad idea but grab a title from who?

[Haka]

Yes but that is hard, why not take it easy and hope to land that 7 figure fight instead of getting crushed by Beter ?

[4truth]

Nah, 168 is the right weight. Benevidez needs to continue calling out ne’er do wells Andrade and Charlo. The winner of a match between Benevidez and either of those two would have the inside track in the Canelo derby.

[eco1]

What is going to happen is Clenelo will be in an accident and we won't be able to find if he was any good since he is a tomato can killer.

[TernceBudCharlo]

So many excuses for canelo just make the ****ng fight. Never seen so many damn excuses for a so called face of boxing in my life.

[SunDiego-]

What Benavidez needs to do is check his weight, chunky boy is so undisciplined outside the ring and that’s what’s mostly going to hurt him going into the fight. 2022 is looking like it’s going to be a good year

[Oracle01]

Not a bad idea, but he's still so young. Its sad he needs to go to these lengths to fight Canelo when everyone knows it would be a huge fight as an attraction and $$