With David Benavidez set to take on Oleksandr Gvozdyk this weekend in a light heavyweight fight, Benavidez’s father and trainer talks to Fight Hub about their mindset heading into this fight and why they’re looking to win in style.
Benavidez Sr on moving on from their focus on a Canelo fight
“I believe that there’s bigger fights to be made. Bivol beat Canelo Alvarez so we’re trying to beat the one that beat the one. I think it would be an honor for us to fight Bivol because he beat Zurdo Ramirez, he beat Canelo Alvarez, so if we can be the one to beat the face of boxing I think that would put David in a greater position than where we are now.
“We’re trying to look for the bigger fighters, the dangerous fighters, the fighters that nobody really wants to face. So those are the ones that we’re after.
“Oleksandr has nothing to lose, you know, a lot to gain. If we beat Oleksandr we’re not going to get the credit that we deserve…he only has one loss, bro. So like I said, he’s not a push over. We trained extremely hard to look spectacular, not just to win the fight. We’re going to try to hurt him, we’re going to see what we can do and put him out.”
On their past sparring experience with Gvozdyk
“I think we sparred him about six years ago. I like what David did in that sparring, he looked spectacular, he looked really good against a guy who was already a big fighter at that time. And now he made a lot of changes and I think he’s going to look even better than back then.”