Jose Benavidez Sr., whose oldest son Jose Jr.
lost a welterweight title fight to champion Terence Crawford in October, said son David’s travails proved that “in this business, when you’re a nobody, there’s no problem, but when you’re a champion, everybody wants credit.
“I was made to be the bad guy. If I was the bad guy, how did we get here? I look over my son. My job is to protect him. People come in and they feel entitled .… I trusted people.
[Conditioning coach] Alex Ariza came in and begged me on the life of his daughter that he could be trusted. The first time I leave him with David to be with another fighter, he and Billy Keane take him to Top Rank. They put things in his head. It was terrible.”
Alex Ariza doing anything to get a job now