Benavidez vs Medina HIGHLIGHTS: May 20, 2017 - PBC on FS1

Top-rising super middleweight contender David Benavidez put an exclamation point on an awesome 168-pound title eliminator bout with Rogelio “Porky” Medina via an eighth-round TKO stoppage on PBC on FS1 on May 20, 2017 from Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Texas. “This is just a glimpse of what I can do. I’ve never fought a fighter that pushed me to the full extent like this,“ said Benavidez, who improved to 19-0 with 18 KOs. “Porky Medina is a tremendous fighter. It took everything for me to knock him out, but it was an amazing fight.” Indeed it was. The action-packed main event opened with several crowd-pleasing exchanges in the first pair of rounds. Round three offered more of the same as the rugged pair of pugilists went toe-to-toe giving and receiving each other’s best. In the fourth round, Benavidez caught Medina with a left uppercut and then followed with a flurry that backed the former title challenger up, but amazingly Medina stayed upright. Medina fought