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Benavidez’s Bloody TKO Of Lemieux Sends Message To Rivals

The 6-foot-2 David Benavidez (left) displayed an amalgam of speed, searing accuracy, double-fisted power and finishing skills against the 5-foot-10 David Lemieux on the way to scoring Saturday's third-round TKO victory for the WBC's vacant 168-pound title. (Esther Lin/Showtime)

Mike Tyson once called David Benavidez “The Mexican Monster.”

The reason was evident in Benavidez’s vicious blood-letting of former champion David Lemieux Saturday night at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Ariz. Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs) relentlessly battered Lemieux (43-5, 36 KOs) before a boisterous partisan crowd near his hometown of Phoenix.

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