David Benavidez seems to be organising a preemptive excuse by saying his opponent WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell, has been lax about eager to be examined for medicine by VADA. The 2 are preventing on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
In an interview, Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) went on to lengths, speaking about Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) and the drug testing, mentioning two of his knockout victims, Sena Agbeko and Kalvin Henderson, to help his argument.
A “Security Internet”?
It seems to be to some like Benavidez, 28, is bringing this as much as muddy the water in case he loses to Morrell. If Benavidez will get crushed, followers received’t come down laborious on him and abandon ship because of the suspicions they’d have about Morrell utilizing medicine. It could give the ‘Mexican Monster’ a free move to flee the backlash that he would usually obtain from shedding to the Cuban Morrell.
“Morrell truly submitted his VADA paperwork 1 day BEFORE Benavidez late in November. #Truth,” mentioned Keith Idec on X.
It’s pathetic that Benavidez repeatedly mentioned his suspicions of Morrell forward of time, as this tarnishes the match and detracts from curiosity. However for Benavidez, it offers him a built-in excuse if one thing goes mistaken and he’s knocked out or crushed on factors.
Benavidez’s wreckless type of preventing, loading up on each punch, goes to place him prone to being knocked out by Morrell. He was hit lots in his final struggle in opposition to Oleksandr Gvozdyk, preventing like that, and was fortunate that the Ukrainian fighter was largely pushing his photographs fairly than placing most energy into them the way in which he was.
Within the second half of that struggle, Gvozdyk repeatedly took benefit of Benavidez’s careless type to nail him with highly effective photographs. He harm Benavidez within the twelfth spherical with a punch to his mushy midsection that shut him down totally for the ultimate 30 seconds of the struggle. Benavidez didn’t throw something after getting hit by a proper hand from Gvozdyk to the breadbasket in that spherical.
Benavidez’s Preemptive Excuse
“It’s not an excuse, however if you undergo different fighters that say, ‘Hey, I used to be examined by VADA, however David Morrell was not examined,’ it brings loads of questions,” mentioned David Benavidez to the media, mentioning his suspicions of David Morrell being a unclean fighter forward of their February 1st struggle.
“I’m not the one fighter that mentioned this. There have been two different fighters [former Morrell knockout victims Sena Agbeko and Kalvin Henderson]. We’re speaking about Agbeko. He says he was examined the entire camp. David Morrell was not examined, and after the struggle, they didn’t do no drug check, which was sort of odd to me.
“I don’t actually care about that. Even when he [Morrell] was on steroids, I’d beat the s*** out of him, however in case you’re a unclean fighter, you’ll get uncovered. That’s why they’re making such a giant deal. They didn’t wish to get examined, however soiled fighters will get uncovered within the sport. It’s not good for the game, and it’s not good for the folks to make use of steroids. So, I’m not going to let that s*** slide,” mentioned Benavidez.
It’s so disappointing to see Benavidez continually mentioning drug testing, making it clear that he’s implanting an excuse within the minds of followers forward of his struggle with Morrell. The Cuban believes that it is a sign that Benavidez is “scared” of him.
“We’re being examined as a result of I maintain placing stress on VADA, saying, ‘We acquired to check. We acquired to check.’ These are the high-caliber fights that want testing. After I fought Caleb Plant, and I fought Demetrius Andrade, we have been testing 14 weeks out. For this one, we barely began testing 9 weeks out.
“It’s not like I’ve been asking stuff that I didn’t do myself. I’ve been examined greater than anyone by VADA,” mentioned Benavidez.
