David Benavidez gets back on track by stopping Ronald Ellis FOR all his pronouncements about reaping the spoils of boxing, David Benavidez has a curious relationship to success. There was that time, in 2018, when his dalliance with a certain powdery white friend briefly derailed his white-hot career and saw him get stripped of his WBC super-middleweight title. Then Benavidez rebounded, swore he was a reformed man, and, in no time, the Arizonan reclaimed his old belt. But then last August came around and, almost like clockwork, he was stripped of his title again, this time on the scales by coming in nearly three pounds over the limit ahead of his eventual 10th-round stoppage of Roamer Angulo.