Although David Benavidez’s immediate priority is settling his rivalry with 12st nemesis, Caleb Plant, next month, the Arizona fighter is still looking forward.
Benavidez against Plant will go a long way to telling us who’s the world’s second-best super-middleweight after Canelo Alvarez, but it’s a rival of the Mexican that is on Benavidez’s radar.
Dmitry Bivol gate-crashed boxing’s mythical pound for pound rankings last year with a comprehensive points victory over Canelo.
The result has made Bivol one of the biggest targets in boxing with Canelo and Artur Beterbiev eager to fight him. Benavidez is another fighter who’s eager to face Bivol and he’s confident he can get the job done.
“I definitely want to go up to 175. I know I can win a belt at 175, because of the sparring,” David Benavidez when speaking to Fight Hub TV.
“I know a lot of people saw the video of me saying I’d knock Bivol out. I mean, I would. I’m not going to lie.
“As a fighter, you’ve got to have that confidence in yourself and belief in yourself. If you don’t have belief in yourself, you’re not going to do nothing in life.
“I think it’s definitely possible, but right now, my sights are 168. I want to be unified champion at 168 and go up to 175, and it definitely could be a possibility at cruiserweight and then we’ll see from there.”