At 29, the rounds he’s had with the likes of Demetrius Andrade, Caleb Plant, Anthony Dirrell, Kyrone Davis, and J’Leon Love make for a solid education, and that’s even before you get to the sparring tales, of him working with Gennady Golovkin when he was just a teenage up-and-comer and “GGG” was both established and feared. There’s yet to be a sparring story doing the rounds of Benavidez being tamed, and he’s spoken confidently of beating both Bivol and, yes, Ramirez, based on having shared rounds with them both behind closed doors during his ascent.
