Canelo Alvarez says David Benavidez will lose when he faces WBA mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol. He says 175 is Benavidez’s true weight class, however he’s not the identical fighter that he was when he was preventing at 168, having fun with an enormous measurement benefit over his opposition.
Weight Bullying: A Harmful and Unfair Follow
Canelo is mainly stating that Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) has been a weight bully all these years, campaigning at 168 as an alternative of his pure weight class of 175. Weight bullies could be eradicated from the game if the sanctioning our bodies and state commissions had rehydration guidelines that prevented fighters from placing on super quantities of weight in a single day after they weighed in.
It’s harmful for fighters to compete towards these preventing exterior their pure weight class. Two, it’s unfair, and three, it’s dangerous for the fighter who does this. Dropping 20+ lbs of water weight the week of the combat, some utilizing unscrupulous strategies to do it, places their kidneys and different organs liable to shutting down.
It will be the identical if mild heavyweights Bivol and Artur Beterbiev selected to soften down and combat at 168 for the final 10+ years, as Benavidez has completed. Bivol and Beterbiev would have been pure terrors at 168, ruling the division with an iron fist and being unstoppable.
It’s good that Benavidez is preventing at 175 now, however as Canelo says, he’s not the identical fighter he was at 168, and he gained’t beat Bivol or Beterbiev.
Benavidez’s True Check
“If David Benavidez is like we noticed within the final combat [against Oleksandr Gvozdyk], sure, Bivol beats him,” stated Canelo Alvarez to Boxingscene on whether or not WBA mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol would defeat David Benavidez at 175.
It’s a on condition that Benavidez will lose to Bivol and Beterbiev when the time comes for him to combat these guys. That’s why Benavidez ought to tackle David Morrell in a last elimination to show he deserves a title shot. He doesn’t look prepared after his debut at 175 towards Gvozdyk final June.
“Look, 175 is his [Benavidez], and he did nothing at 175. He’s not the identical,” stated Canelo.
