The timing of Friday night's Top Rank on ESPN live boxing event in the Phoenix area couldn't have been much better, with the Super Bowl coming.
Benavidez is the current standard bearer for Arizona boxing, though he now lives and trains in the Seattle area. The Phoenix native is set to fight Caleb Plant for the WBC title belt in a battle of two of the top super middleweights in the sport on March 25 in Las Vegas.
Benavidez brings with him to the MGM Grand Garden a nickname be picked up from the one and only Mike Tyson last year: The Mexican Monster. He vowed to beat Plant in six rounds or less and put him in the hospital, after Plant reminded everyone watching the press conference that Benavidez lost the title belt once for a positive test for cocaine and lost it again for not making weight.
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