David Benavidez vs. David Morrell conflict in 52 days on February 1 can be a WBC gentle heavyweight remaining eliminator to resolve the obligatory for the February twenty second rematch between undisputed 175-lb champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
There’s a load of cash at stake for the Benavidez-Morrell winner. Whoever emerges because the victor can be combating the Beterbiev-Bivol winner for giant dough, seemingly in Riyadh, and can make a fortune towards one among them. For the ‘Mexican Monster’ Benavidez, it’s the payday he’s been chasing his whole profession together with his relentless pursuit of a battle towards Canelo Alvarez.
WBC Necessary Place
Morrell’s WBA ‘common’ 175-lb title and Benavidez’s WBC interim strap can be at stake for his or her conflict on February 1st on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. Their occasion can be proven on PBC on Prime Video PPV.
Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) might upset the applecart by defeating Benavidez, who has carried out numerous boasting about himself throughout his 11-year professional profession, combating in a division beneath his huge cruiserweight body, and competing towards smaller, lesser opposition all through. His resume is plagued by older, smaller fighters like Demetrius Andrade, Roamier Alexis Angulo, David Lemieux, and Anthony Dirrell.
If Benavidez will get crushed on this battle, followers will notice that he was only a faux hype job all these years and was by no means the man he’d made them imagine. In different phrases, a weight bully can be a reasonably honest description.
The extra skilled professional Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) is seen as a slight favourite with followers. Nevertheless, Morrell is the marginally youthful, sooner, stronger puncher and the higher technical fighter. He additionally has superior stamina to Benavidez, who regarded exhausted after six rounds in his debut at 175 final summer time on June fifteenth in his conflict towards Oleksandr Gvozdyk in Las Vegas.
Gvozdyk, 37, had the higher energy in that battle and was the one which pushed the battle within the final six rounds. The Judges scored it for Benavidez by a large 12-round determination, however it gave the impression to be a draw. In different phrases, the A-side fighter David acquired fortunate.
Many suspect that ‘the Mexican Monster’ isn’t the identical man now that he’s competing at the next weight, carrying extra kilos on his body, and going through opposition his equal measurement with superior energy.
