David Benavidez says he’s “moved on” and is now not chasing after celebrity Canelo Alvarez to attempt to get a combat towards him. He’d been making an attempt to get a combat towards Canelo for a few years with no luck, and he’s briefly given up.
Benavidez, 27, nonetheless thinks a combat with Canelo can occur throughout the subsequent 5 years, so he’s given up totally on that match. Surprisingly, Benavidez thinks that he’ll keep unbeaten that lengthy, which suggests he would wish to beat WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell and the winner of the rematch between undisputed 175-lb champ Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Morrell Might Deliver Benavidez To Heel
The probabilities are excessive that Benavidez will lose in his subsequent combat or two as a result of he’ll be dealing with much better competitors than he did at 168, and he’s not the identical fighter he was at 175. There’s a great opportunity the Cuban Morrell will defeat Benavidez and finish as soon as and for all his forlorn hope for a Canelo combat.
Benavidez’s greatest wins
– Demetrius Andrade: 35
– Caleb Plant: Publish-Canelo knockout loss
– Oleksandr Gvozdyk: 37
– Anthony Dirrell
– Ronald Gavril
In debut at gentle heavyweight, he struggled to beat 37-year-old Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June fifteenth. The older fighter outpunched Benavidez and was combating on fumes after six rounds. That combat confirmed that Benavidez isn’t going to dominate towards guys his personal measurement at 175, and life might change into very troublesome for him quickly, maybe on February 1st when he faces Morrell.
Benavidez Not Giving Up On Canelo
It appears a hopeless dream for Benavidez to be nonetheless considering he can get a combat towards Canelo as a result of, by this level, you’d assume he’d lastly obtained it by means of his thick head that the Mexican celebrity is NEVER going to combat him. If Canelo hadn’t fought Benavidez earlier than, why would he have wished to face him in 5 years at 39?
WBC interim champion Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) has different priorities now, dealing with Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on February 1st on the T-Cellular Arna in Las Vegas. If Benavidez wins that, he’ll face whoever emerges because the winner of the Beterbiev-Bivol 2 winner.
“Proper now, I’ve moved on,” mentioned David Benavidez to ESNEWS about him now not specializing in making an attempt to get a combat towards Canelo Alvarez. “Finally, it’ll occur as a result of I’m not going to lose to anyone, and I don’t assume he’s going to lose to anyone both. Perhaps it doesn’t occur now however it might occur in 5 years as a result of I don’t see Canelo retiring any time quickly.”
Benavidez must deal with Morrell and see Canelo as a misplaced trigger. He’s in all probability not going to ever combat him, and he’s simply torching himself by persevering with to carry out determined hope that he’ll.
If cash is the factor, Benavidez must beat Morrell, the Beterbiev-Bivol winner, after which transfer as much as cruiserweight to tackle IBF Jai Opetaia. If Benavidez will get by means of all these fights with out shedding, he’ll be wealthy.
