“Benavidez’s style breaks through anything,” Bradley said on his channel, cutting off the controversy before it could really start.
Tim pointed to the range of fighters that The Mexican Monster Benavidez (31-0, 25 KOs) has already faced in his 13-year pro profession. He’s faced boxers, punchers, southpaws, and treated that as enough evidence.
Who stands in front of him doesn’t change much. Bradley keeps coming back to the identical point: the hand speed, the quantity, and the pressure keep constructing, and most fighters don’t cope with it well.
Volume and hand speed are two elements which are difficult for his opponents to handle. But when one aspects in Benavidez’s size and fearlessness, it makes it even tougher for his opponents. We saw that in his wins over David Morrell, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, and Anthony Yarde.
Bradley also referenced the fight with Morrell for instance of a unique look not changing the equation. Morrell could punch and box from the southpaw stance. Bradley identified that Benavidez overwhelmed Morrell with punches, keeping him pinned to the ropes, though a lot of the 12-round fight. Yes, Morrell got his pound of flesh, hurting Benavidez twice, but he still lost in a one-sided fight.
The way in which he talks about it, opponents don’t delay once the pace builds and the punches keep coming over twelve rounds, and Bradley doesn’t sound convinced anyone can last with him.
The way in which Tim sees it, Benavidez sets the pace early and keeps it there, and each opponent finally ends up fighting the identical fight whether or not they need to or not. That’s going to be bad for WBA and WBO cruiserweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez if he can’t discover a method to rating a knockout of Benavidez.
Gilberto just isn’t going to have the option to elude him with movement, as he did in his fight against Chris Billiam-Smith in 2024. Ramirez doesn’t have the punch output to match Benavidez in that department, which suggests he’s only got a puncher’s probability.