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Coach Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis says he thought former WBA ‘regular’ gentle heavyweight champion David Morrell was going to field and go to the physique of David Benavidez of their struggle on February 1st.
Bozy thinks Morrell (11-1, 9 KOs) made a mistake by standing in entrance of Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs), overlaying up, and leaning ahead as an alternative of transferring round to set traps. How the 27-year-old Cuban Morell fought was preferrred for Benavidez to reap the benefits of that fashion to win a 12-round unanimous choice.
Morrell’s Mistake
Bozy wonders what his coach advised Morrell in his nook as a result of he shouldn’t have been combating that approach. Morrell nonetheless harm Benavidez a number of occasions with massive photographs however couldn’t capitalize on it. Benavidez gained the struggle by the scores 118-108, 115-111 and 115-111. The primary rating turned in by the choose, Tim Cheatham, didn’t replicate what occurred within the struggle, because it was nonetheless shut. Morrell obtained his pound of flesh, hurting Benavidez and marking his face up past recognition.
“That was a tremendous fight, but I thought Morrell was going to box more and use his legs,” mentioned coach Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis to YSM Sports activities Media, reacting to David Morrell’s loss to David Benavidez on February 1st. “He was leaning in and throwing punches like that. It regarded wish to me that wasn’t his fashion to struggle Benavidez like that.
“If anybody has their arms up like that in opposition to Benavidez and keep like that, Benavidez is sharp with them combos. Physique-head, body-head. However in the event you transfer, you make it troublesome for him, however he [Morrell] didn’t do this. That’s the place he misplaced at.
“Me too, but he didn’t do none of that at all,” mentioned Bozy when advised by the interviewer that he thought Morrell was going to maneuver and set traps. “Benavidez has got it all, too, and he can box a little bit. He’s one of them guys that come to fight. He wants to make it an exciting fight, and that’s why people come to see him fight. He’s a crowd-pleaser.”
Morrell fought the identical approach in his earlier struggle in opposition to Radivojo Kalajdzic final August. So, it’s attainable that it’s a coaching subject, and he wants to think about getting a brand new coach to forestall this from occurring once more.
Benavidez’s Power
“He’s not just going to box you. He said, ‘The heck with the boxing.’ Once he gets in there, he’s going to the body and to the head and make everything look spectacular,” mentioned Bozy about Benavidez. “That’s why people love him. A couple of times,” mentioned Ennis about Benavidez getting harm a few occasions by Morrell.
“But he didn’t do it,” mentioned Bozy about Morrell, trying like he might have put one thing collectively to get the win after he’d harm Benavidez. “When he hit him, he buckled him, but Benavidez came right back like a champ. I mean, he came back throwing them punches, man.”
Morrell fought poorly till the eleventh, when he relentlessly attacked a really drained and beaten-up-looking Benavidez, dropping him. On the twelfth, Benavidez was throwing arm punches and combating on fumes. Morrell, whose energy was nonetheless nearly as good because it had been when he began the struggle, landed all the toughest photographs. It was shocking how drained Benavidez regarded.
“Like I said, it was a good fight, but Morrell didn’t fight his fight. He didn’t use his foot movement or none of that,” mentioned Bozy. “As a matter of reality, he didn’t go to the physique. I didn’t see him go to the physique. I didn’t see none of that [stabs to the body from Morrell]. I don’t know what kind of knowledge he was getting within the nook.
“That would be a good fight because the one thing about Benavidez. He got that dog in him,” mentioned Ennis when advised that Benavidez is necessary to struggle the winner of the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol 2 rematch. “You got to kill him in the ring. He ain’t never going to quit. You got to make him quit,” mentioned Bozy about Benavidez.
