"Benavidez was dropped by Gavril"

[Mammoth]

Has been something I keep seeing lately. I saw it here and I see it on twitter. It's a weird thing to bring up and it seems to be brought up exclusively by Canelo fans. Isn't that like when people brought up Cotto's brother rocking Canelo? I really think there's a good amount of these guys rooting for Plant simply because they don't want to see him and Benavidez fight.

[Oracle01]

Well its the only thing they can criticize him for, so I can't blame them really. Desperation. Garvil was a really solid fighter with great conditioning. He was a top 5 fighter imo, until Benavidez derailed his career.

[Mammoth]

Well its the only thing they can criticize him for, so I can't blame them really. Desperation. Garvil was a really solid fighter with great conditioning. He was a top 5 fighter imo, until Benavidez derailed his career.

Gavril was alright. Nothing special but tough. Took such a beating in the rematch i kinda felt bad for him. It's just funny to me seeing these guys go all the way back to 2017 looking for something, anything. Benavidez was just a kid at the time.

[Malvado]

What's funny is that Benavidez didn't even lose that fight five years ago. At 21 years he battered Gavril in two fights and retired him, then went to beat down better opposition more convincingly such as a prime Anthony Dirrell, KO artist Roamer Alexis Angulo and an over the hill David Lemiux by stoppage.

[Mammoth]

What's funny is that Benavidez didn't even lose that fight five years ago. At 21 years he battered Gavril in two fights and retired him, then went to beat down better opposition more convincingly such as a prime Anthony Dirrell, KO artist Roamer Alexis Angulo and an over the hill David Lemiux by stoppage.

Benavidez isn't exactly operating in the deepest division.

[Malvado]

Benavidez isn't exactly operating in the deepest division.

Not really anyone's fault that the talent pool for 168 has been lackluster.

being that said my point was that Benavidez is way more polished and capable compared to five years ago. Gavril knocking down a quite young David shouldn't be sufficient proof that Caleb Plant would beat him based on a performance against an old version of Dirrell.

[El Más Loco]

That is exactly what is happening. The craziest part it is is that most of those people rooting against Benavidez and hoping for him to lose are Mexican Americans....while over here in Mexico most Mexicans want to see that fight.

[Regge]

Yea I laugh at that too.

first off David was 20 yrs old when he whoopd Gavril not once but twice and pretty much ended his career that 2nf fight was a brutal beatdown by David.

2nd that was one of the weakes so called KDs ever David was clearly off balance and touched by a jab so he lost his footing but whatever haters will use anything.

[Citizen Koba]

I mean I'm not particularly a Benavidez fan but there's shades of desperation in reaching back to a KD in a fight he won when he was stil what... 20 or 21 years old? KId's big and dangerous, deceptively quick - even though he looks kinda gangly - and carries real power... rather looking forward to this fight.

[hhh1200]

younger but same soft setup resume like ramirez

https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/672259