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Keyshawn Davis was impressed with what he noticed from David Morrell in his efficiency towards David Benavidez on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV earlier this month.
He felt that the sunshine heavyweight Morrell (11-1, 9 KOs) might have made it extra attention-grabbing if he had extra expertise and made a couple of strategic modifications to his recreation. Keyshawn says Morrell shouldn’t have backed up so usually towards the ropes and would have been higher off circling.
Expertise Hole
He additionally felt that he ought to have gone on the assault towards Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) starting within the fifth or sixth as an alternative of ready till the final two rounds. Ready that lengthy put Morrell in an unimaginable scenario the place he wanted a knockout, and he had the fallacious opponent for him to do this.
Benavidez has a head like a Water Buffalo, and he can take huge photographs that may KO a standard human. Clearly, if Benavidez retains consuming the sort of photographs that he took towards Morrell, he’s going to be leaving the game with only a few marbles rolling round in his head. He has no protection in any respect.
“It was a loss for Morrell on his record. It really wasn’t no loss. I watched it. I’m watching the next David Morrell fight, and that was the first fight I ever watched of David Morrell,” stated Keyshawn Davis to Combat Hub TV about Morrell’s combat towards David Benavidez on February 1st.
“He offered himself nice. David Morrell appeared nice. I felt if he had extra expertise, it most likely would have been a greater combat. David Benavidez has all of the expertise on the earth, and I’m a fan of David. I simply felt that David Morrell was a bit of too inexperienced, and quite a lot of it confirmed for certain.
“First of all, he started kicking into that second gear too late. At the end of the fight, he started standing there and fighting David Benavidez. He finally got his confidence to fight him, and that was a little too late. We were all saying in the sixth round, fifth round, ‘Kick it in. Fight this man. Stop moving so much.”
Late Surge
Morrell ought to have gone after Benavidez earlier within the combat as a result of when he stopped displaying him respect, he was hurting him along with his larger punches. He confirmed ultimately that he was higher than Benavidez. It was like watching a light-hitting quantity puncher getting overwhelmed by a stronger man.
Morrell’s energy was on one other stage, and he was the better-conditioned fighter ultimately. Benavidez had used up all his gasoline within the first eight rounds and had nothing left to fend Morrell off. He appeared like a drained cruiserweight. Benavidez revealed that he’d rehydrated to 196, which is a 22-lb water acquire from the 174 lbs he’d weighed in at.
“‘Bro, use your jab. Move in a circle. All you got to do is keep circling him. Why do you keep backing up straight to the ropes?’ Those things right there. It’s the inexperience. I feel like maybe years down the line, maybe they can rematch that. I know David Morrell is going to be a fantastic fighter that people are going to continue to watch. He’s exciting. So maybe years down the line, they can run that back.”
It was a mistake on Morrell’s half to again as much as the ropes, shelling up and permitting Benavidez to tee off on him. When he moved round, he neutralized offense effectively. Within the later rounds, when Morrell lastly went after Benavidez, he was outpunching him and was making him look dangerous in the identical method Oleksandr Gvozdyk did.
“I can see why Canelo doesn’t want to fight him,” stated Keyshawn about Benavidez.
It doesn’t appear like Canelo Alvarez will ever combat Benavidez until Turki Al-Sheikh gives him insane cash, however I don’t suppose that’s going to occur. There’s different fights that Canelo can combat and nonetheless generate profits. He doesn’t want the massive dough that Turki would supply him to combat Benavidez.
