Benavidez overpowers, stops Andrade and then calls for Canelo

'The Mexican Monster' pounds his way to a sixth-round TKO to retain the WBC interim super middleweight title

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If there were still any doubters that David Benavidez isn’t the best and most obvious next opponent for undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, surely they have to be convinced now after watching him tear Demetrius Andrade apart to retain the WBC interim title on Saturday night.

Nicknamed “The Mexican Monster” by none other than Mike Tyson, Benavidez lived up to the moniker as he took three rounds to get into the groove against Andrade and then pummeled him until Andrade’s corner stopped the fight in the corner following the sixth round in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Then Benavidez once again called for a fight with Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, who has two fights remaining on his deal with PBC but declined to face him in the first fight in September, instead routing junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo, who moved up two divisions.

“I think I just solidified myself as a dominant performer that I am,” Benavidez said of the victory. “I think it was just a reminder to everyone who the real champion at 168 is. They want to see me versus Canelo and that’s what we want too. I was the youngest super middleweight champion of the world (and I’m a) three-time world champion (including the interim belt). Now just give me the fight that we all want to see.”

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