WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell Jr. and WBC interim belt-holder David Benavidez will meet in a kickoff Press Convention subsequent Tuesday, November nineteenth, to debate their combat on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV.
The Morrell-Benavidez press convention subsequent Tuesday will likely be held in Los Angeles at The NOVO at L.A. Dwell. Curiously, Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) is given prime billing forward of Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) regardless of holding solely an interim title.
Morrell ought to have his identify forward of Benavidez within the posters for the combat. If the Cuban knockout artist Morrell beats Benavidez, he’ll have his identify first if there’s a rematch, which is prone to occur. The administration for Benavidez at Premier Boxing Champions will certainly make a second combat to offer ‘The Mexican Monster’ an opportunity to redeem himself.
Undercard
Brandon Figueroa Jr vs. Stephen Fulton
Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz vs. Angel Fierro
Jesus Ramos Jr. vs. Jeison Rosario
Figueroa vs. Fulton 2 Rematch
Within the co-feature on the February 1st card, WBC featherweight champion Brandon Figueroa Jr. (25-1-1, 19 KOs) will defend in opposition to former WBC and WBO tremendous bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton (22-1, 8 KOs) in a rematch of their combat three years in the past on November 27, 2021. Fulton outboxed Figueroa, profitable a 12-round majority resolution.
Fulton’s profession hasn’t gone effectively since his win, dropping to Naoya Inoue by an eighth-round technical knockout final 12 months on July 25, 2023. The combat was a pure mismatch, as Inoue took benefit of Fulton’s weak energy to piece him up earlier than ending him off within the eighth spherical.
Figueroa, 27, is simply now coming into his prime and can comply with Inoue’s blueprint to the letter to blast holes in Fulton, touchdown energy photographs till he folds up. It could possibly be a straightforward knockout. ‘Cool By Steph’ Fulton isn’t the identical fighter at featherweight as he was at 122, and he doesn’t possess the facility to be an element on this division.
Fulton’s chin seemed like Swiss cheese in his final combat in opposition to the non-puncher Carlos Castro on September 14th, getting dropped within the fifth and staggered a number of occasions. The 30-year-old Fulton got here on ultimately to win a slender 10-round majority resolution in opposition to an exhausted-looking Castro. Had the Mexican fighter not light, he would have knocked out Fulton as a result of he was hurting him together with his photographs via the primary six rounds.
Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz vs. Angel Fierro
Additionally, on February 1st, Benavidez vs. Morrell card, gentle welterweight Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz (26-3-1, 18 KOs) will combat Angel Fierro (22-2-2, 17 KOs). Each guys are coming from losses and want a victory to remain in competition.
Pitbull Cruz misplaced to Jose ‘Rayo’ Valenzuela by a 12-round cut up resolution on August third in Los Angeles. Fierro misplaced to Alfredo Santiago by a one-sided 10-round unanimous resolution on June fifteenth in Manati, Puerto Rico.
