FORMER TWO-TIME SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLEHOLDER dAVID BENAVIDEZ RETURNS TO THE RING AGAINST KYRONE DAVIS SATURDAY ON SHOWTIME.
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DAVID BENAVIDEZ (24-0, 21 KOs) VS. KYRONE DAVIS (16-2-1, 6 KOs)
- Date: Saturday, Nov. 13
- Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
- Where: Footprint Center, Phoenix
- TV/Stream: Showtime
- Division: Super middleweight
- At stake: No titles
- Pound-for-pound ranking: None
- Odds: NA
- Also on the card: Jose Benavidez Jr. vs. Francisco Emanuel Torres, junior middleweights
- Prediction: Benavidez KO 7
- Background: Benavidez was supposed to have fought rugged Jose Uzcategui in front of his hometown fans but the Venezuelan was pulled from the card after allegedly testing positive for a banned substance. Davis stepped in two weeks before the fight. Benavidez saw his second reign as a 168-pound titleholder end on the scale before his meeting with Roamer Alexis Angulo in August of last year, a fight he won by 10th-round stoppage. He followed that with an 11th-round knockout of Ronald Ellis in March, his fourth consecutive stoppage. He is a candidate to challenge Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed championship next May if he can win on Saturday. Davis, once an amateur standout, is a good boxer with limited punching power. The Delawarean enhanced his reputation by drawing with former two-time super middleweight titleholder Anthony Dirrell this past February, which made him a credible potential opponent for the top 168-pounders. He followed up with a unanimous eight-round decision over Martez McGregor in September, a fight in which Davis struggled.
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