Via Allan Fox: WBC interim super middleweight champion David Benavidez is pushing himself to the limit with extend train camping and starting to look exhausted for next month’s fight against Caleb Plant on March 25.
Benavidez is working raggedly in the camp, believing that as much as possible and that he can be completely empty-handed when he enters the ring against a new Plant next month.
Benavidez, who is originally from Arizona, has basically gone through a training camp and he’s expanding it for the Plant fight. Furthermore, Benavividez is shining like a madman with 12 to 13 rounds daily with his main fighting partner Diego Pacheco being one of the people he is working with a lot.
Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs) is feeling the pressure to learn that this is the biggest fight of his career against former IBF 168-lb champion Plant (22-1, 13 KOs) on Showtime PPV at the MGM Grand Garden in LaVegas. Plant has taken on big opponents before, so he doesn’t stress how Benavidez handles this camp.
So far, the strongest opponents of former WBC 168 lb champion Benavidez 26 years old are the following fighters: David Lemieux, Ronald Ellis, Ronald Gavril, Anthony Dirrell and Kyrone Davis.
Those guys don’t look like Plant or the top boxers that Benavidez wants to try his hand at, and that’s why he’s stressing this boot camp by overtraining.
Is Benavidez obsessed?
“I have four or five peoplebut he’s someone I work with because he pushes me a little bit more because he’s really talented, and he’s definitely [excellent],” David Benavidez told fight about his main fencing partner Diego Pacheco with whom he is teaming up to get ready for next month’s match against Caleb Plant on March 25.
“We have good chemistry, and we will definitely go to war. I like people like that, and they, like me, are unafraid of a challenge.
“So I have him and four others. I work with different styles. I feel like that’s what everyone has to do, when you’re a professional boxer. You have to work with many styles because you never know which style will come out that night.
“Maybe you’re doing something else, and the guy is doing something completely different. We do 12 or 13 sets, and we’re switching. We do three rounds with one, and then we put another round in.
“So every guy is new and every guy brings something different. So it’s just adapting, adapting all the time and I think that’s what makes you a good 12-round boxer. You just adapt to every style,” says Benavidez.
