Boxing has been on a hell of a run with high-profile fights delivering upsets and entertainment and high drama. Saturday night’s Showtime Championship Boxing main event in Arizona did not fit the description of anything but a bad mismatch.
Undefeated former WBC super-middleweight champion David Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs) won the interim title — Canelo Alvarez is the main champion but obviously went up to light heavyweight and lost to Dmitry Bivol two weeks ago — by third-round TKO over former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (43-5, 36 KOs). This was a very bad idea and the WBC should be ashamed to have even ordered such a fight.