David Benavidez To Jermall Charlo: “We Both Want Canelo, Let’s Earn The Shot At Him By Fighting Each Other”

By: Hans Themistode

David Benavidez and Jermall Charlo flat out don’t like one another. The 2 have spent the previous a number of months throwing verbal haymakers at each other by social media and at any time when a microphone is current.

Though Charlo campaigns at a decrease weight class, the WBC middleweight titlist expressed a want to go up in weight to face Benavidez. But, as soon as the previous two time tremendous middleweight titlist brazenly took him up on his supply, Charlo seemingly backtracked, claiming that he wouldn’t face anybody underneath the age of 25 and likewise stating that if Benavidez wished to combat him, he must squeeze all the way down to the 160-pound restrict.

Whereas Benavidez and Charlo look like polar opposites with a transparent disdain for each other, they do share one factor in widespread. The pursuit of a showdown in opposition to pound-for-pound star Canelo Alvarez. Though Charlo continues to foyer for the combat to happen subsequent in opposition to the Mexican star, Benavidez has an thought.

“We each need Canelo,” mentioned Benavidez on his Instagram account with an image of himself and Charlo. “Let’s earn the shot at him by combating one another. Winner will get Canelo, how about that?”

If Charlo was to take Benavidez up on his supply, the Houstonian will first should relaxation up. Simply this previous weekend, the previous two-division champion defended his WBC crown in opposition to Juan Macias Montiel. In what many believed could be a stroll within the park, it was something however that, because it became an absolute canine combat. Charlo had his palms full in entrance of his hometown Houston followers on the Toyota Middle. Regardless of the forwards and backwards warfare, Charlo would stroll away from their contest with palms raised in victory however was visibly beat up.

As for Benavidez, the 24-year-old made it look extremely simple in opposition to Ronald Ellis in his most up-to-date ring look, stopping him within the eleventh spherical. Now, the Phoenix, Arizona native will look to ship one other physique to the canvas when he takes on former 168-pound belt holder, Jose Uzcategui. The 2 are scheduled to get it on August twenty eighth at a but to be named venue.