The David Morrell vs. David Benavidez conflict on February 1st will likely be a WBC mild heavyweight closing eliminator. The winner of their combat will face the victor of the rematch between undisputed 175-lb champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol of their conflict on February twenty second.
Morrell’s Upset Bid
If the Cuban Morrell upsets Benavidez, it’s going to be a variety of offended followers who purchased into ‘The Mexican Monster’ as being an important fighter. He’s been bragging about himself for years, pushing like mad for a combat in opposition to Canelo Alvarez, however by no means proving himself in opposition to high-level fighters till now.
It took Benavidez 11 years to lastly face a menace, and it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how he performs. A loss by Benavidez in opposition to Morrell will present that followers bought suckered into pondering he was nice with out wanting intently at the kind of opposition he’d been dealing with.
Furthermore, Benavidez has been preventing out of his pure weight class for years, as he ought to have been at 175 from the beginning of his profession attributable to his large measurement. He was greater than his final opponent, former WBC mild heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk, of their combat on June fifteenth, and seemed horrible in that combat.
It was already understood that the Benavidez-Morrell winner would combat the winner of the Beterbiev-Bivol 2 rematch, however the World Boxing Council simply confirmed that.
Rematch And Trilogy?
If Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) loses the rematch to Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) on February twenty second, there’s a powerful risk of an instantaneous trilogy. They might then be 1-1, and followers would demand a 3rd match.
Former WBA 175-lb champion Bivol goes to make use of his hit, run & maintain fashion to attempt to win a choice in opposition to the knockout artist Beterbiev. That’s the strategy Bivol utilized of their earlier combat on October twelfth, which just about labored for him. It was ugly to observe, however the judges scored it intently, giving Beterbiev a 12-round majority resolution by the scores 115-113, 116-112, and 114-114.
It could have been extra attention-grabbing if His Excellency Turki Alalshikh had arrange a combat between undisputed mild heavyweight champion Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) and Benavidez for February 22. Bivol may have fought Morrell, and the winners of these two fights may have met for the undisputed.
WBA ‘common’ mild heavyweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) and WBC interim champ Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) may have their belts on the road after they meet in two months on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas, Vegas. The 2 are headlining on PBC on Prime Video PPV.
