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Why moving on from Canelo is David Benavidez's best decision

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Demetrius Andrade held the WBO titles at junior middleweight and middleweight, managing to remain undefeated for 15 years .

David Benavidez is moving up and moving on, fighting another guy Canelo Alvarez wants no part of, David Morrell .

Nobody has called out Canelo longer (since 2020 ), with greater justification, or less success than David Benabidez .

Benabidz-Morrell is the best matchup on American soil since Errol Spence Jr.-Terence Crawford in 2023 .

Jose Benavidez wants to fight Zurdo Ramirez at cruiserweight.

He also wants the winner of Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol's fight on Feb. 22 in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia .

By age 12 , his weight had ballooned to 250 pounds , trainer Julian Chua recalls.

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