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Key takeaways
- Benavidez (31-0, 25 KOs) is a former super middleweight and light heavyweight champion.
- Ramirez (48-1, 30 KOs) is a two-division champion who previously held a super middleweight title before moving up to light heavyweight and eventually to cruiserweight.
- While Benavidez will be making his cruiserweight debut, Ramirez enters his fifth fight at 200 pounds.
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Benavidez (31-0, 25 KOs) is a former super middleweight and light heavyweight champion. After his quest for a megafight with Canelo Alvarez never materialized, he continued his climb in weight classes in pursuit of becoming a three-division champion. He enters the fight off a seventh-round TKO of Anthony Yarde in November, his seventh stoppage in his past 10 bouts.
Ramirez (48-1, 30 KOs) is a two-division champion who previously held a super middleweight title before moving up to light heavyweight and eventually to cruiserweight. He captured the WBA cruiserweight belt against Arsen Goulamirian in March 2024, added the WBO title with a win over Chris Billam-Smith eight months later and most successfully defended both belts against Yuniel Dorticos in June 2025.