WBC ‘common’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell has confirmed on social media that he’s in discussions for a conflict towards WBC interim champ David Benavidez.
If the 2 unbeaten beginner 175-pounders, Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) and Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs), comply with a deal, the conflict might occur in December. That might put the winner within the slot to struggle for the undisputed championship in 2025 towards the winner of the October twelfth contest between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Morrell, 26, is the youthful, extra highly effective, and technically gifted fighter than Benavidez, however he lacks the expertise he possesses. If the Cuban Morrell adapts his sport to enhance his low punch output, Benavidez will seemingly lose this struggle by knockout. The distinction in energy between Morrell and Benavidez is big. I suppose Benavidez didn’t eat his Wheaties when he ws rising up.
Though Morrell solely has 11 fights as a professional, he has lots of expertise as an newbie in Cuba, which places him previous Benavidez. He’s fought far superior fighters within the amateurs than the opposition that Benavidez has fought within the execs, which is generally older guys like Demetrius Andrade and Anthony Dirrell.
Morrell is a significantly better puncher than him and has a method extra suited to the 175-lb division. The 27-year-old Benavidez is a fish out of water at gentle heavyweight and not the fearsome puncher he’d been at 168, the place he had a measurement benefit over his smaller prey.
If Benavidez loses to Morrell, it will verify in followers’ minds that he was all the time only a weight bully from day one. He can be seen as one other instance of a younger fighter gaming the system by combating in a weight class under their measurement.
Benavidez has been a professional sport longer, and he’s crushed Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Demetrius Andrade, Caleb Plant, David Lemieux, and Anthony Dirrell.
Benavidez’s high-volume offense would doubtlessly give Morrell issues as a result of he throws lots of punches in a machine gun type, overwhelming his opponents with pictures. In Benavidez’s debut at 175 final June towards Gvozdyk, he defeated him along with his quantity.
Gvozdyk was the larger puncher and landed the cleaner pictures in each spherical, however the excessive output from Benavidez was sufficient to get the win.
Morrell punches a lot more durable than Benavidez, however he could have issues along with his quantity if he doesn’t enhance that a part of his sport by the point they struggle. That’s the factor that was lacking from Morrell in his latest struggle towards
Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third on the undercard of Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. Morrell had the previous Artur Beterbiev knockout sufferer Kalajdzic harm a number of instances of their 12-round struggle however couldn’t put him away as a result of he was specializing in throwing single punches as a substitute of unloading a barrage of pictures in the way in which that Benavidez would have completed.
If Morrell had extra expertise and had tailored his sport, he would have simply knocked Kalajdzic out as a result of he was early and infrequently in that struggle.
The pictures that Morrell had him with appeared more durable than the blows that the knockout artist Beterbiev had hit him with 5 years earlier of their conflict in 2019. The distinction was that Beterbiev didn’t step again and let up as soon as he had Kalajdzic in bother the way in which Morrell did.
A victory for Morrell on this struggle will seemingly put an enormous smile on Canelo Alvarez’s face, as he’s been hounded by Benavidez nonstop for the final a number of years. Benavidez has been pushing like mad, making an attempt to get a struggle towards him, seeming fixated at instances on touchdown that large payday.
What can be actually humorous is that if Morrell had been the one who finally obtained the struggle towards Canelo reasonably than Benavidez. Now, that may be hilarious, and it will recommend that karma is at work. Morrell didn’t hound Canelo the way in which Benavidez has.
