1/14/2024 0 Comments David benavidez boxer![]() “When I lost the weight, I also started getting taller. “That experience of losing the weight made me how I am today, because I was a kid who overcame an obstacle and I use that as an advantage,” Benavidez said. When I was close to giving up, I told myself to give it a little more time.” I didn’t think I could take the dieting anymore, so I had to decide that if I wanted to be a great fighter, this is what I had to go through. “Dieting was hard, especially when you’re a kid. “I couldn’t even recognize myself, it’s then that I decided I had to something about the weight and how I looked,” David said. Benavidez learned a valuable life lesson. By the time he was 16, when he turned pro in Mexico, he was down to around 170 pounds. It took David about a year to shed the weight. It was a little funny, because my brother, being a big brother making fun of the little fat brother, called me ‘fat boy’ or ‘fat ass.’ I had to do something about it. I was eating too much, and when my brother and father moved, I lost my discipline. I really didn’t have any bad habits, other than eating cake, candy, and fast food. I was training my whole life up to that point. Boxer David Benavidez, Named ‘Mexican Monster’ by Mike Tyson I didn’t want to be that little kid that they were working with. I sparred Gennady Golovkin when I was 14, and ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, Kelly Pavlik, Gabriel Rosado. “I only had 10 amateur fights and I boxed my whole life, since I was three. “And blew up to 250 pounds,” David said, almost embarrassed. moved to Los Angeles to pursue his pro career, and something back home happened to David. (his brother) signed a pro contract, he and Jose Sr. I actually don’t know where I would be without it.” I liked other sports growing up, but boxing took up all of my time and energy. “Boxing taught me that you have to work harder than anyone else to get what you want. I just want to tell everybody, the kids that I was a 250 pound 14 year old who hated the way he looked, I didn’t believe in myself, but I said to myself, I am going to put in the work and stay dedicated and look where I’m at now. I know what the struggle is, it was real but that’s what makes make that man I am today, because I have been through hard times, I never put that on social media, so people can feel bad for me, I don’t need anyone to feel bad for me, I just need my own motivation, that’s all I need. had an apartment in Phoenix, there home, he went to LA to work with his son and make him a champion.īefore father and son knew it they were living in their car. Today, David Benavidez is a two-time WBC super middleweight champion, having held the title from 2017 to 2018 and again from 2019 to 2020.Ĭlaiming his first belt at 21 years, eight months, and 22 days old, Benavidez holds the record as the youngest super middleweight title holder in history.īenavidez dad Jose Benavidez Sr. He became a professional boxer when he was 16 years old after an amateur career that included only 15 fights, but had to go to Mexico to get fights as the legal age in the US is 18, in Mexico, where a person can fight professionally at any age. Benavidez, who started boxing at the age of three, had an amateur record of 15-0. When he was 15, Benavidez’s weight ballooned to 250 pounds, as he struggled with dieting and discipline. ![]() Both brothers are trained by their father, José Benavidez Sr. SHOWTIME Boxing March 26, 2023Ĭompeting in a new weight class at 135 pounds, particularly when he was coming off a defeat, was proving to be an insurmountable task for Colbert who got taught there's a difference between men and boys in 10-round bouts at an unfamiliar weight.David was born into a Mexican American and Ecuadorian family, his older brother, José Benavidez is also a professional boxer. The knockdown wasn't the only time Valenzuela got the crowd on their fight as his venomous flurries, in which he targeted the body and head, showed he had far more pop in his shots than anything Colbert could muster. However, Valenzuela let Colbert what kind of night it would be for the fighter who had been confidently chirping all week by dropping the New Yorker with a counter hook shot in the opening round. It often indicates a user profile.Įarlier in the show, there was a baptism of fire for Chris Colbert who hoped to rebound from last year's shock defeat to Hector Luis Garcia by beating crowd favorite Jose Valenzuela. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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