David Benavidez Vs Gilberto Ramirez Highlights, Cinco De Mayo 2026: Mexican Monster Becomes Three-Weight World Champion

Welcome to our live coverage of the highly anticipated cruiserweight unification bout between David "El Monstro" Benavidez and Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez! Join us as we bring you round-by-round updates, insights, and all the ringside drama from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

In his last outing on November 22, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, David "The Mexican Monster" Benavidez successfully defended his WBC light heavyweight title with a dominant seventh-round technical knockout victory over Britain's Anthony Yarde.

Benavidez utilized his superior hand speed and relentless pressure to overwhelm Yarde throughout the contest. In the seventh round, a savage combination forced Yarde to the canvas. Although Benavidez lost two points for landing a punch after the knockdown, he continued his aggressive assault immediately after the restart. The referee ultimately intervened at the 1:59 mark, stopping the bout as Yarde was unable to defend himself.

Main Card

Super welterweight: Isaac Lucero vs Ismael Flores

Super bantamweight: Jorge Chavez vs Tito Sanchez

Super lightweight: Oscar Duarte Jurado vs Angel Fierro

WBA super middleweight title: Jaime Munguia vs Jose Armando Resendiz

WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles: David Benavidez vs Gilberto Ramirez

Prelims

Super Middleweight: Daniel Blancas vs Raul Salomon

Light Heavyweight: Juan Carrillo vs Marlo Delgado

Lightweight: Dylan Capetillo vs James William Pierce III

The preliminary bouts for the Cinco de Mayo weekend boxing event at the T-Mobile Arena have concluded with the following results:

Super Middleweight: Daniel Blancas defeated Raul Salomon by unanimous decision (99-91, 99-91, 100-90).

Light Heavyweight: Juan Carrillo defeated Marlo Delgado via a fourth-round knockout.

Lightweight: Dylan Capetillo defeated James William Pierce III by unanimous decision.

Prior to his bout tonight against David Benavidez, Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez’s last match was a successful defense of his unified WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles against Yuniel Dorticos. The fight took place on June 28, 2025, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. In a hard-fought, twelve-round contest, Ramirez secured a victory by unanimous decision with scores of 115-112, 115-112, and 117-110. Although he faced a strong, aggressive opponent in the veteran Dorticos—who was penalized for repeated low blows—Ramirez’s consistent volume and late-round composure ultimately proved to be the deciding factor in retaining his championships.

In the middle rounds, the focus of both fighters was on hitting each other's head. Both of them on most occasions stayed in the centre of the ring and kept throwing combinations. However, in the fifth things got flared up as Flores fired a strong uppercut snapping Lucero's head back. Flores carried on the momentum in the sixth round as well and was also able to hurt Lucero for a bit. Till the seventh round it looked like Lucero was struggling as Flores moved well and was able to dodge punches comfortably while landing his hits cleanly.

Round 8 turned out to be a close fight with both boxers standing close, pressing their heads together and throwing constant punches at each other. However, Flores ascends over his competitor landing more effective punches and by round 9, he was way ahead in power punches (215 to 99). By the final, Flores' win looked certain which is why he went all in for a knockout. Heavy punches were exchanged by both fighters in the last round but eventually Flores was declared a winner by an unanimous decision.

Someone's winning streak is going to break tonight as Junior featherweights Chavez and Sanchez, who haven't lost in combined 31 fights are up against each other tonight. The knockout rates of both fighters are almost same, which makes it an interesting battle to watch out for.

While both fighters enter the bout undefeated but Chavez comes with extra motivation as he was defeated by Sanchez before as an amateur. Chavez started well, using his jabs well and moving quite frequently, while changing his stance time to time. On the other hand, Sanchez focused on driving his opponent forward with strong punches, targeting the body and then the head. Sanchez struck some clean shots comprising of an uppercut and hook.

Chavez looked in control in the fourth round, finding his form early. He stood light on his feet and land strong punches and halted Sanchez's forward pressure by adopting the right combinations. Sanchez had his share of moments but it proved to be Chavez's round eventually. Sanchez was hell bent on committing to brawling with his constant forward movements, enticing Chavez into engaging but the latter chose to held his own in close quarters.

Sanchez came to his own in the 7th round, attacking the head and body of Chavez with his shots. Both the fighters keep going at each other in the 8th and 9th round with Sanchez leaving Chavez stunning quite a few times, setting it up nicely for the final set, where Sanchez adopted the offensive approach, which eventually proved out to be too much for Chavez, who was knocked down for the second time. Sanchez secured a thrilling TKO with 30 seconds left in the fight. It was a dominant win for him and he carried on his ascendancy over Chavez.

Next we have the junior welterweight division next, where Duarte will eye his eight consecutive win against Fierro. Duarte will enter as favorites but an underdog can surprise you anytime as we saw today.

It is a slower bouts as compared to the previous ones. While Duarte laid his emphasis on hitting body shots, even hurting Feirro with one but the latter stayed on rather than being knocked out. Duarte's lack of head movement makes him susceptible at times. However, by the end of the 4th down, things heat up with Duarte accidently hitting the referee by mistake. The referee didn't rule a knockout and Duarte wasn't reprimanded for a late hit.

Feirro nearly pulled off another upset but it wasn't meant to be. There fight swung like a pendulum, Duarte was ahead in the first four, Fierro made a comeback in the next four rounds and after right rounds it was neck-to-neck. Feirro did well with his right uppercut and left hook, while Duarte landed big shots in round 9 that shook Fierro. It was only in the final round, where Duarte turned on the heat and overcame Fierro resistance.

Next is the WBA super middleweight title fight. Resendiz will defend his belt for the first time since becoming champion. He was the interim champion before moving up after Terence Crawford retired. Mungia comes into the co-main event as a slight favorite.

Mungia begin round 3 by asserting himself on the center and firing jabs at his opponent, then following by strong punches. Resendiz managed to hit a couple of shots in the start but still suffered a blow to the head and body. Resendiz pushed forwards and fires a strong punch and Mungia gave it back with a smooth three-punch combo that rocked Resendiz's head. Resendiz managed to land a right hand and a jab, but Mungia kept landing more combinations, including a left hook. The round was scored 10–9 for Mungia.

Mungia brought his right hand into use to set up a strong body hook. Resenadiz tried to give it back but not to much effect. Mungia is able to land more punches consistently, while it's mainly misses for Resendiz. Just as Mungia fired a three-punch combo followed by a right hook, Resendiz missed a big punch after which Mungia landed a left hook that left Resendiz shocked. Resendiz definitely looked a bit shaky after the round 9 and the score is 10–9 for Mungia, who was well ahead overall.

Mungia thumps Resendiz by 117-111, 119-109, 120-108 to claim the WBA Super middleweight champion title. Mungia's handspeed, footwork and rhythm changes were impeccable that kept Resendiz on tenterhooks. The defending champion had his moments in the game but eventually fell flat against Mungia, especially in round 12, where Mungia completely outclasses Resndiz.

The main event is just upon us as Benavidez aspires to become only the 58th boxer to win world titles in three weight divisions, however for that he'll have to get past unified cruiserweight champion “Zurdo.”

The 2nd round began with the use of jabs from both the fighters. While Ramirez relied on singles punches, Benavides moved maneuvered his body and fired a strong right hand. Ramirez also landed to the body and Benavidez replied back with his own shots. Ramirez was successful in hitting a punch through the guard but Benadivez also slipped a left hook and stayed vigilant.

Ramirez began the fifth round with a broken nose and Benavidez showed no mercy and got back to packing power punches at Ramirez. He has been quite accurate with his punches today and fired clean shots at Ramirez including an uppercut and a strong left hook. However, Ramirez does well to fight back with body and head shots in this round. This has been his best round so far. The round was scored 10–9 for Benavidez.

Benavidez becomes a three-division champions. The Mexican Monster made optimum use of speed and power to cruise past cruiserweight division. He was in control of the fight from the beginning to the end. He brought down Ramirez bit by bit, not letting him settle down and overwhelming him by fast combinations. Just at the brink of round 6, he stopped Ramirez by closing his eye. He became the first fighter to ever stop Ramirez and also the first to win world titles at super middleweight, light heavyweight, and cruiserweight.

That's a wrap! That's a wrap from our end. We'll be back with another blog soon, until then, bye bye.