David Benavidez says he’s going to attempt to stroll WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell down and “harm him in each spherical” of their headliner in 40 days on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV on the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Strolling Morrell Down
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) thinks he can “harm” the Cuban Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs), and he desires to see if he has any “coronary heart” by placing strain on him. This might be a mistake for the ‘Mexican Monster’ Benavidez to attempt to stroll Morrell down on this combat as a result of that is arguably the largest puncher within the 175-lb division. He might stroll into one thing and get knocked out.
Via a lot of the 28-year-old Benavidez’s profession, he’s been competing in a division under his measurement, draining all the way down to compete at 168 as a substitute of being the place he ought to be at 175. As such, followers have labeled him a ‘weight bully,’ and it’s exhausting to argue towards that when seeing him rehydrated throughout his fights. He’s resembled a cruiserweight.
Morrell is about the identical measurement as Benavidez however with extra energy. He doesn’t sport a Fury-esque stomach like him, as he retains his weight down between fights and doesn’t take pleasure in goodies.
Testing Morrell’s Chin
“I positively do suppose I can harm him. I’m going to do my sport plan to the very best of my talents to attempt to harm him as a lot as potential,” stated David Benavidez to Sean Zittel, speaking about what his focus is for his conflict towards WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1st.
“If the knockout comes, it comes. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. My sport plan goes to be on him all evening and actually attempt to harm him each spherical. For him giving up, I don’t know. That’s the query. I wish to see if David Morrell actually has that coronary heart or if he has that canine in him.
“I’m going to attempt to harm him each spherical, so we’re going to see what occurs. For this combat, I really feel actually sturdy. Every little thing feels good proper now. I’m injury-free. I’ve been coaching actually good. I’ve been coaching for a very long time, and I’m simply prepared for this,” stated Benavidez.
In Benavidez’s debut at 175 towards Oleksandr Gvozdyk, his punches at no impact on him of their conflict on June fifteenth. He seemed like a mean quantity puncher, and he ate a number of exhausting photographs from Gvozdyk in that combat. Not too long ago, Benavidez has blamed his poor efficiency on a complete host of various accidents, making himself sound like a strolling wounded for that battle.
David’s punches seemed like they have been thrown with the identical energy as when he fought at 168. The one distinction was that he was combating a man the identical measurement, and it had no impact. Benavidez’s accidents might be an indication that he’s bodily breaking down from a protracted profession within the sport. He’s been combating for over 10 years and is approaching 30.
Fighters normally are finished by that time of their careers except they’re genetically particular. For Benavidez to undergo, a number of accidents sign that he’s reaching the top like regular fighters and isn’t one of many particular ones.
Benavidez’s Excuses
“I’m able to excel in my profession and get the largest challenges on the market. I don’t wish to be a hypocrite,” stated Benavidez concerning the notion of him crying over Canelo Alvarez not combating him, and but he’d been dodging a combat towards Morrell for 2 years.
Benavidez was a hypocrite as a result of he didn’t wish to combat Morrell and was doing the identical factor Canelo was with him. His excuse that he had larger cash fights obtainable to him is identical excuse Canelo used for not combating him. The fact is that Morrell was too harmful, and Benavidez didn’t wish to lose.
“It wasn’t that I wasn’t giving him [Morrell] the chance. It was that Caleb [Plant] was a much bigger combat than him. ‘Boo Boo’ [Demetrius Andrade] combat than him. Then, coming as much as 175, once I got here up, he got here up proper behind me. So, it was excellent. He received his belt [WBA ‘regular’], and I received my belt [WBC interim light heavyweight]. That’s why I’m saying, now’s the proper time to make this combat occur,” stated Benavidez.
Benavidez isn’t saying that he was taking different much less dangerous fights than these as a substitute of going through Morrell. Benavidez had been getting known as out by the Cuban expertise for over two years, and he was taking simpler fights, combating these guys:
– David Lemieux
– Kyrone Davis
– Ronald Ellis
