By Allan Fox: WBC interim super middleweight champion David Benavidez is pushing himself to the limit with his extended training camp and is starting to look drained already for his fight against Caleb Plant next month on March 25th.
Benavidez is working himself ragged in camp, believing that more is better, and he could be totally empty by the time he enters the ring against a fresh Plant next month.
The Arizona native Benavidez has already essentially gone through a training camp, and he’s extending it for the Plant fight. Moreover, Benavividez is sparking like a madman with 12 to 13 rounds daily with his lead sparring partner Diego Pacheco as one of the guys he’s doing a lot of work with.
Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs) is feeling the pressure, knowing that this is the biggest fight of his career against the former IBF 168-lb champion Plant (22-1, 13 KOs) on Showtime PPV at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Plant has already been with high-caliber opponents, so he’s not stressing out the way Benavidez is for this camp.
Up to this present moment, the 26-year-old former WBC 168-lb champion Benavidez’s best opponents are these fighters: David Lemieux, Ronald Ellis, Ronald Gavril, Anthony Dirrell, and Kyrone Davis.
Those guys are nothing like Plant or the top fighters that Benavidez wants to test himself against, and that’s why he’s stressing out for this training camp by overdoing it.
Is Benavidez obsessing?
“I’ve got four or five guys, but he’s the one that I work with because he pushes me a little bit more because he’s really talented, and he’s definitely [excellent],” said David Benavidez to Fighthype about his lead sparring partner Diego Pacheco that he’s been working with to get ready for his fight next month against Caleb Plant on March 25th.
“We’ve got good chemistry, and we definitely go to war. I like people like that, and they’re like me and aren’t going to shy away from any challenges.
“So I have him and four other guys. I work with different styles. I feel like that’s what everybody has to do, when you’re a professional boxer. You have to work with more than one style because you never know what style will present itself that night.
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“You might be working on something else, and the guy does something completely different. We do 12 or 13 rounds, and we’re changing guys. We do three rounds with one, and then we put another one in.
“So every guy comes in fresh, and every guy brings something different to the table. So it’s just adapting, adapting every time, and I think that’s what makes you a good 12 round fighter. You’re just adapting to every style,” said Benavidez.