David Benavidez might have made the fallacious transfer by selecting to face extremely expert WBA ‘common’ mild heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1st.
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) had been swerving the Cuban Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) for the final two years, ignoring his callouts and specializing in taking simpler fights towards outdated relics, David Lemieux, Caleb Plant, and Demetrius Andrade.
After Morrell Jr’s final battle towards Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third, which wasn’t one in every of his higher ones, Benavidez and his dad/coach, Jose Benavidez Sr., lastly relented to face him. Per Salvador Rodriguez on X, Benavidez-Morrell will probably be preventing on a PBC present on February 1st on the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.
It’s too late for Benavidez to vary his thoughts and never undergo with the battle towards Morrell as a result of if he loses, he can neglect in regards to the huge payday preventing the winner of the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol 2 rematch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and making a goldmine from the battle.
Benavidez Should Change His Model For Morrell
David Benavidez appeared far worse in his debut at 175 towards former mild heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June fifteenth. In that battle during which Benavidez received by a 12-round unanimous determination, he light after six rounds and took a variety of punishment within the closing six rounds, greater than in different battle of his profession.
The ultimate punch stats
Benavidez landed 270 of 749 punches for a 36% join charge. For his half, Gvozdyk landed 223 of 675 for 33%. Gvozdyk landed the a lot tougher punches and was the stronger fighter down the stretch towards an exhausted-looking Benavidez.
Benavidez made excuses after the battle, blaming his disappointing efficiency available accidents. However followers didn’t consider him as a result of he’d been preventing the identical method at 168, however his opposition was a lot smaller than him and never as gifted as Gvozdyk.
From 2013, he beat ham and eggers for a full decade with out stepping up towards fighters his personal dimension. He moved as much as 175 to battle skills like Dmitry Bivol, Artur Beterbiev, and Joshua Buatsi.
Within the Gvozdyk battle, Benavidez confirmed that his energy hadn’t traveled up with him from the 168-lb division and that his preventing model of throwing machine gun mixtures wouldn’t work for him at mild heavyweight. Certainly, if Benavidez doesn’t change that model quickly, he’s going to be null & void, heading to Palookaville, questioning what occurred to his once-promising profession.
Morrell Hits Too Onerous For Benavidez
David Morrell is clearly the most important puncher within the 175-lb division in the present day and possesses an excessive amount of energy for Benavidez to attempt preventing the identical method towards him that he’d achieved at 168 or in his battle towards Gvozdyk.
Benavidez bought a nasty beating within the Gvozdyk match and was badly marked up after the battle. He appeared like he’d been in a torture chamber after that battle. For a quantity puncher with below-average energy like Benavidez, it might be dangerous for him to battle Morrell and try to outwork him.
The chance of getting knocked out by Morrell is just too excessive, and it wouldn’t finish nicely for him. Benavidez’s model is made to order for Morrell. His final opponent, Kalajdzic, had a harder model for Morrell due to his counter-punching and energy. Kalajdzic is without doubt one of the largest punchers within the 175-lb division and has extra energy than Benavidez. Morrell needed to be cautious with him due to the counter photographs.
