WBA ‘common’ mild heavyweight champion David Morrell and WBC interim 175-lb champ David Benavidez meet tomorrow, Tuesday, November nineteenth, for his or her kickoff Press Convention to start selling their conflict on February 1st.
Morrell will give Benavidez a chunk of his lip, letting him know what he thinks of the ‘Mexican Monster’ for avoiding him all these years. The Cuban expertise has been pissed off with Benavidez’s ducking him, and he’s labeled him a “Coward” for selecting to not combat him till now.
Many consider Benavidez lastly relented ONLY as a result of Morrell didn’t look so sizzling in his debut at 175 in opposition to Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third.
The previous two-time WBC tremendous middleweight champion Benavidez is attempting to reinvent himself at 175 after outgrowing the 168-lb division. He ought to have moved as much as mild heavyweight 5 years in the past, however he’d been ready round, attempting to maneuver himself right into a title combat in opposition to Canelo Alvarez.
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) and Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) are seen as the 2 finest fighters at 175, outdoors the undisputed champion Artur Beterbiev and former WBA title-holder Dmitry Bivol. Whoever comes out victorious within the Benavidez vs. Morrell combat may combat a kind of two within the first half of 2025.
Morrell-Benavidez will meet on Tuesday at The NOVO at LA Reside at 1:00 p.m. PT [9:00 p.m. UK]. The 2 will headline on PBC on Prime Video pay-per-view on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Within the co-feature on the cardboard, WBC World featherweight champion Brandon Figueroa fights Stephen Fulton in a rematch. That’s a combat that would steal the present from the principle occasion.
These two battled on November 27, 2021, with Fulton (22-1, 8 KOs) defeating Figueroa (25-1-1, 19 KOs) by a 12-round majority choice. Fulton neutralized Figueroa’s energy by outboxing him.
Since that combat, Fulton’s chin has been dented by Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue, dropping to him by an eighth-round knockout final yr on July twenty fifth. In Fulton’s final match, he was harm by Carlos Castro however was capable of survive and win a 10-round cut up choice.
Fulton didn’t appear to be the identical fighter he’d as soon as been pre-Inoue, and there are questions on whether or not it is a everlasting vulnerability for him. If Fulton can now not take a tough shot with crumbling, he gained’t do nicely in opposition to Figueroa, who shall be on him nonstop.
Different undercard fights
Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz vs. Angel Fierro
Jesus Ramos Jr. vs. Jeison Rosario
