Where do the winners and losers of Ring IV: Night of Champions go from here?

Saturday night’s stacked Ring IV: Night of Champions card, live on DAZN Pay-Per-View, got a headlining David Benavidez deliver another dominating defense of his WBC light heavyweight title, while Devin Haney became a three-division world champion in chief support.

The card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia also managed to see Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez snatching the lion’s share of titles at super flyweight, while Abdullah Mason, 21, was crowned the youngest current world champion in men’s boxing.

Here, DAZN News examines where the winners and losers of Ring IV can go from here.

David Benavidez

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After flattening Anthony Yarde at Ring IV, David Benavidez retained his WBC and interim WBA light heavyweight world titles.

Prior to Saturday night’s seventh-round TKO win, he had talked about unifying the division with an undisputed showdown against Dmitry Bivol. Afterwards, though, he broke the news that he’ll be moving up to challenge unified WBA and WBO cruiserweight world champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez on May 2.

The power play has him headlining a Cinco de Mayo weekend that Canelo Alvarez ruled over for years, now putting Benavidez in a spot to vie to become the face of boxing.

This announcement was not as big of a surprise as people might think as Benavidez has coveted a fight against ‘Zurdo’ for quite some time.

In an interview with DAZN News late in 2024, Benavidez targeted Ramirez as a fight he’d be willing to step outside of light heavyweight for.

“That is definitely a fight that we’re eyeing and if we could get that fight tomorrow,” Benavidez said at the time, “we’d go and fight that fight tomorrow, too.”

He has now spoke those words into fruition.

Anthony Yarde

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For the third time, Anthony Yarde fell short of becoming a light heavyweight world champion via a stoppage loss. Then again, there is no shame in losing to the likes of former titleholders Sergey Kovalev and Artur Beterbiev before being stopped by Benavidez on Saturday night.

A battle-tested, all-action Yarde should weigh all options at light heavyweight and pick the best possible fight for him in 2026.

Devin Haney

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Having moved up in weight to defeat Brian Norman Jr. in becoming the new WBO welterweight world champion, Devin Haney is back on top … with options for the New Year.

One route ‘The Dream’ can explore is possibly facing the winner of Ryan Garcia’s announced challenge of WBC titleholder Mario Barrios in February.

Haney was in the position of waiting for Garcia to line up a rematch but the latter did not uphold his end of the bargain, suffering an upset loss to Rolando Romero on that same May card, instead.

Maybe this time, they could align the rematch.

Brian Norman Jr.

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In the end, Devin Haney was right — there are levels to boxing and Brian Norman Jr. just isn’t on par with ‘The Dream.’

Norman Jr.’s inexperience showed in Saturday night’s chief support bout as he demonstrated little to no head movement, keeping himself a target on the center line for Haney to jab away at will.

Haney was able to control and dictate the pace of the fight so well that Norman Jr. never got to truly unleash his power punching and was instead subjected to a second-round knockdown by Haney who two-pieced him with a check left hook, right hand combination.

The Decatur, Georgia native is an intriguing talent who could use the remainder of this year and early 2026 to regroup before throwing his name back into the mix at 147 pounds.

Jesse 'Bam' Rodriguez

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With three super flyweight world titles in tow now, Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez is one championship away from reaching undisputed glory at 115 pounds. He can get it in 2026 if he’s able to cement a fight against Willibaldo Garcia Perez, the IBF super flyweight champ.

He can also look up to unified bantamweight world champion Junto Nakatani or if he dares, undisputed junior featherweight king and pound-for-pound phenom Naoya Inoue.

Fernando Martinez

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Fernando Martinez was thoroughly outboxed by Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez in every facet of the fight game on Saturday night. But many ‘Bam’ opponents fight him to that same fate. It is why Rodriguez is an undefeated pound-for-pound star.

Martinez can take his time getting back into the ring but the now former WBA super flyweight world champion should have plenty of suitors for his next bout once he is ready.

Abdullah Mason

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In capturing the vacant WBO lightweight world title, the youngest world champion in men’s boxing Abdullah Mason, 21, has effectively hit liftoff on his star power in boxing.

Perhaps looking at the other world champions at lightweight and eyeing the winner of the January 24 tilt between IBF champ Raymond Muratalla and Andy Cruz is an option.

Even with his victory over Sam Noakes in an instant classic Saturday night, Mason has some holes in his fight game to address.

Whatever his next move becomes, Mason’s upwards trajectory is now in full flight.

Sam Noakes

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Yes, Sam Noakes fell short of his goal to claim the vacant WBO lightweight world title Saturday night as Abdullah Mason became the youngest active champion in men’s boxing at his expense, instead.

However, in suffering his first professional loss, Noakes certainly won over boxing fans with pure toughness and punch persistence.

This gritty showing in what was an incredible fight with Mason should only boost Noakes’ stock and make his fighting profile ripe for the picking towards another signature bout in 2026.