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David Benavidez says he’s going to make use of “everything” that Cuban David Morrell has stated about him to “fuel” his hearth once they meet on February 1st of their gentle heavyweight headliner on PBC on Prime Video PPV on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
WBA ‘regular’ champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) has simply been mentioning the plain, saying that Benavidez has been avoiding him since 2022 and that he’s a “fat little chicken” and never the ‘Mexican Monster’ powerful man that he tries to make followers assume he’s. Morrell sees Benavidez as a “Fake” poser, and a “Chicken” one at that.
Shedding Management?
“When I get in the ring, I’m trying to implement as much damage as possible because if I’m not getting you, they’re trying to get me. So, I take this very serious,” stated David Benavidez to the Miami Hustle about his combat towards David Morrell on February 1st.
“I really feel like each fighter I am going within the ring with, they’re making an attempt to take meals off of my plate, and I’m not going to let that occur. David Morrell has been speaking s*** for some time. He tries to say he doesn’t. He’s been retaining my title in his mouth.
“He thought I was never going to take the fight. So once we accepted the fight, then he tried to act like he’s not talking s*** and not saying nothing about me. I’m using everything he said about me to fuel the fight,” stated Benavidez about Morrell.
It seems like Benavidez will combat with anger and emotion towards Morrell and put himself able of getting caught by one among Morrell’s large energy pictures. That’s the issue with Benavidez’s. He’s a sizzling head and has a mood downside.
That is likely to be why he acted out and shoved Morrell when he refused to shake his head throughout their media exercise on December seventeenth in Miami. He couldn’t deal with the humiliation of getting his handshake try rejected by Morrell. So, he shoved him. He’s fortunate that Morrell didn’t mind him together with his heavy WBA ‘regular’ belt that he tossed at him in response as a result of he may been minimize to ribbons if it had tagged him within the head.
Combating angrily towards a relaxed fighter like Morrell, who has technical expertise honed from years of becoming on the Cuban newbie crew, is a mistake.
If Benavidez fights like a wild man towards Morrell, he’s going to get knocked out. This man has one-punch energy and has competed with two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist Julio Cesar La Cruz and Osleys Iglesias. These are fighters superior to anybody Benavidez has fought throughout his 12-year skilled profession, and arguably higher than him.
“I can’t say because I haven’t been in the ring with him, but on paper, he looks like he has everything,” stated Benavidez when requested if David Morrell is his hardest opponent up to now. “He has reach, he has speed, he has footwork, and he has power. That s*** doesn’t scare me.”
Nobody on Benavidez’s resume matches the scale, youth, technical potential, or energy of Morrell. That is simply one of the best fighter he’ll have fought, and if he loses, that’ll show it on February 1st. Gvozdyk was once a very good fighter years in the past, however by the point Benavidez fought him, he was 37, coming off a four-year retirement and a knockout loss to Artur Beterbiev. If Benavidez had fought the identical model of Gvozdyk that knocked out Adonis Stevenson, he’d have misplaced to him.
“I’ve been boxing for 25 years. I like it when I see a strong fighter that I’m about to get in the ring with because what satisfies me the most is shutting people up who think I can’t win, who think I’m going to get knocked out. I know what I can do, and that’s why I took this challenge,” stated Benavidez.
Boxing followers have doubted Benavidez’s potential to beat Morrell for years. They’ve additionally doubted his potential to compete in a division pure to his large cruiserweight body, at 200 or 175.
Benavidez ought to have already fought Morrell years in the past, and moved as much as gentle heavyweight to tackle Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. Furthermore, Benavidez ought to have already fought at cruiserweight towards Jai Opetaia as a result of he’s had the scale to compete in that weight class for years. As an alternative of getting any of these fights, Benavidez performed it secure, melting to 168, feasting on smaller, older fighters, and never getting the combat he needed towards Canelo Alvarez.
Delayed Determination
“This is a challenge that not too many people are willing to take at 168 and 175. So, the hardest challenges, I embrace them. I want to be the most dominant fighter there is. So, I’m going to continue to do what I got to do,” stated Benavidez.
It took Benavidez three years to lastly settle for the problem from the Cuban Morrell, who has been calling him out since 2022. Benavidez didn’t need to combat Morrell, however he modified his thoughts after his less-than-impressive combat towards Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third in Los Angeles.
What which means is that Benavidez isn’t as fearless as he portrays himself as a result of if he had no concern, he would have fought Morrell in 2022 as a substitute of selecting to combat these guys:
– Oleksandr Gvozdyk– Demetrius Andrade– Caleb Plant– David Lemieux
