David Benavidez took the WBA and WBO cruiserweight belts from Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez with an awesome display of speed and power on Saturday night in Las Vegas. The “Mexican Monster” dropped Ramirez in the fourth and the sixth, badly damaging the now-former champion’s right eye. The second knockdown in the sixth ended the fight with the official time of the stoppage at 2:59.
The headliner of the pay-per-view show didn’t disappoint as the two cruiserweights traded heavy punches throughout. After two highly entertaining fights on the main broadcast, it would have been hard to match the back-and-forth energy the audience had already enjoyed. But the violence of the stoppage left no one disappointed.
