David Benavidez defeated Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez by sixth-round KO to win the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles on Saturday night time at T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
Benavidez (32-0, 26 KOs) grew to become a three-division champion and the primary fighter to win world titles at tremendous middleweight, mild heavyweight and cruiserweight. This was Benavidez’s first battle within the 200-pound division. He entered the battle following a dominant seventh-round TKO of Anthony Yarde in November.
Ramirez (48-2, 30 KOs) was making the primary protection of his unified championship. After going 5-1 at mild heavyweight — with all 5 wins by stoppage — Ramirez had gone the gap in every of his 4 cruiserweight bouts earlier than shedding to Benavidez.
Within the co-main occasion, Jaime Munguia (46-2, 35 KOs) dominated Jose Armando Resendiz (16-3, 11 KOs) to win the WBA tremendous middleweight title by unanimous choice with scorecards of 117-111, 119-109 and 120-108.
Andreas Hale was in Las Vegas with full protection, together with undercard outcomes and round-by-round evaluation.

















































