David Benavidez vs. Ronald Ellis: time, how to watch, background

David Benavidez vs. Ronald Ellis: time, how to watch, background.

FORMER TWO-TIME SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLEHOLDER DAVID BENAVIDEZ RETURNS TO THE RING AGAINST RONALD ELLIS ON SATURDAY IN UNCASVILLE, CONN.

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DAVID BENAVIDEZ (23-0, 20 KOs)
VS. RONALD ELLIS (18-1-2, 12 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rohyvIb6MVM

  • Date: Saturday, March 13
  • Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
  • Where: Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Conn.
  • TV/Stream: Showtime
  • Division: Super middleweight (168 pounds)
  • At stake: No titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Kudratillo Abdukakhorov vs. Javier Flores, welterweights; Issac Cruz vs. Jose Ramero, lightweights; Jamontay Clark vs. Terrell Gausha, super middleweights
  • Prediction: Benavidez KO 7
  • Background: Benavidez is already a two-time 168-pound titleholder at 24, having most-recently lost his belt on the scale before stopping Roamer Alexis Angulo in August. The strapping, hard-punching Arizonan is a prime candidate to face one of the super middleweight titleholders – currently Canelo Alvarez, Caleb Plant and Billy Joe Saunders – but he must keep winning the meantime. Ellis is a capable boxer-puncher who is coming off a fourth-round stoppage of Matt Korobov that ended prematurely when Korobov injured his ankle in December. He outpointed Immanuwel Aleem a year before that. Benavidez has stopped J’Leon Love, Anthony Dirrell and Angulo after back-to-back decisions over Ronald Gavril in 2017 and 2018.

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