Who won Benavidez vs Siqueira?

Jose Benavidez beat Sidney Siqueira by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest on Saturday 12th December 2015 at Convention Center in Arizona.

The scorecards were announced as 100-90, 100-90, 99-91 in favor of winner Jose Benavidez.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 10 rounds in the Welterweight division, which meant the weight limit was 147 pounds (10.5 stone or 66.7 KG).

Benavidez vs Siqueira stats

Jose Benavidez stepped into the ring with an undefeated record of 23 wins, zero loses and 0 draws, 16 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Sidney Siqueira made his way to the ring with a record of 26 wins, 10 loses and 1 draw, with 17 of those wins by knock out.

The stats suggested Benavidez had a slight advantage in power over Siqueira, with a 70% knock out percentage over Siqueira's 65%.

Jose Benavidez was the younger man by 15 years, at 30 years old.

Benavidez had a height advantage of 7 inches over Siqueira. Despite this, Siqueira had 3-inch reach advantage.

Both Jose Benavidez & Sidney Siqueira fought out of an orthodox stance.

Benavidez was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 14 less fights, and made his debut in 2010, 4 year and 8 months later than Siqueira, whose first professional fight was in 2005. He had fought 35 less professional rounds, 157 to Siqueira's 192.

Benavidez vs Siqueira form

Benavidez had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 2 of them, going the distance twice.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had lost to Terence Crawford on 13th October 2018 by technical knockout in the 12th round in their WBO World Welterweight championship fight at CHI Health Center, Nebraska, United States.

Previous to that, he had defeated Frank Rojas on 9th June 2018 by knockout in the 1st round at MGM Grand, Las Vegas.

Going into that contest, he had beat Matthew Strode on 3rd February 2018 by technical knockout in the 8th round at Bank of America Center, Texas.

Before that, he had won against Francisco Santana on 23rd July 2016 by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest at MGM Grand, Las Vegas.

He had beat Sidney Siqueira on 12th December 2015 by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest at Convention Center, Arizona.

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Benavidez's last 5 fights had come over a period of 7 years, 1 month and 15 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 5 months and 4 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 41 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 8.2 rounds on average.

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