David Benavidez might face WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell subsequent January in a struggle that might put the winner in place to battle for the undisputed championship at 175 lbs.
Salvador Rodriguez studies curiosity in making the Benavidez vs. Morrell struggle in January. That match-up would get followers enthusiastic about seeing these two goliaths meet, with the winner difficult whoever emerges because the undisputed champion within the October twelfth struggle between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
The unhealthy information is that Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis will miss out on utilizing Benavidez to assist promote his December 14th card in Houston. Tank is defending towards tremendous featherweight Lamont Roach, and followers are usually not very occupied with that struggle in any respect.
Not having Benavidez on the December 14th card to tug within the PPV buys shall be unhealthy for Tank and PBC as a result of he’s necessary to creating curiosity from followers. They’re not occupied with paying $75 to observe Tank Davis destroy the sunshine puncher Lamont Roach. It’s a dumb concept for Tank to struggle Roach as a substitute of one of many gifted lightweights.
Benavidez-Morrell is a large enough struggle to headline its personal card, which is why it wouldn’t be wasted for Tank’s December 14th occasion. Their struggle would dwarf Tank’s conflict towards Roach.
Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) lately moved as much as 175 and defeated Radivoje Kalajdzic by a large twelve-round unanimous determination to seize the WBA ‘common’ title on August third on the undercard of Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov in a Riyadh Season card in Los Angeles.
The efficiency by the Cuban Morrell wasn’t one in all his higher ones, as he wasn’t capable of put Kalajdzic away regardless of hurting him a number of occasions with large pictures. What was lacking was the sustained flurries that Morrell would have wanted to get the KO. If he had accomplished that, he would have knocked out Kalajdzic as early because the third as a result of he was badly surprised after consuming a giant left hand.
“I’m instructed there’s quite a lot of curiosity on the a part of David Benavidez and David Morrell to face one another subsequent January. On this means, on December 14, in Houston, there could be Gervonta Davis vs Lamont Roach, and Alberto Puello and Sandor Martin would be part of them,” stated Salvador Rodriguez on X.
Morrell might wreck Benavidez’s desires of getting a struggle towards Canelo Alvarez if he’s victorious towards him. That’s a struggle that Benavidez, 27, has been chasing for 5 years, however he’s come up empty as a consequence of his weak resume and lack of title recognition with informal boxing followers within the U.S.
Whereas hardcore followers know Benavidez effectively, the casuals don’t, and he’s not a PPV draw. Therefore, he was on Tank’s undercard final June, and he might have been this time if not for the potential Morrell struggle.
