- Advertisement -
David Benavidez says he’s assured that he’ll beat undisputed mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol when he will get an opportunity to problem him for his titles. Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) states that Bivol (24-1, 12 KOs) could take the trilogy with former four-belt champion Artur Beterbiev subsequent moderately than preventing him. Nevertheless, he says he’s open to preventing on their undercard to “help bring more attention to the card.”
Undercard Play
It will be a good suggestion to have Benavidez on the Bivol-Beterbiev 3 undercard, as that will assist create extra curiosity from followers which have grown uninterested in seeing these two combat. Many U.S. boxing followers want to see ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez get his shot as a result of he earned it along with his current victory over WBA ‘regular’ mild heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1st.
Benavidez feels the success that he had sparring with Bivol. These sparring classes clearly occurred years in the past, however Bivol’s Japanese European preventing fashion has stayed the identical all these years. He’s not modified, and nonetheless struggles when he’s beneath a full assault with out let up. Beterbiev would have overwhelmed Bivol of their rematch on February seventh if he’d continued to assault all out, like he was doing from rounds three by means of six.
The distinction with Benavidez is he WON’T tire. He’ll hold attacking Bivol relentlessly like Beterbiev was doing within the first half of their rematch, however he’ll proceed the complete match. Bivol’s possibilities of surviving that sort of fixed assault from Benavidez are slim. He’ll get knocked out or his nook will throw within the towel.
“I’ll Beat Him”
“We sparred a lot. It was a good sparring session. With these top tier fighters, they’re able to adapt to anything. So, I would figure some of his stuff out, and he’d adapt to that and he’d do some stuff to me, and I’d adapt to that,” mentioned David Benavidez to Fighthype about his sparring classes with Dmitry Bivol.
Benavidez provides that he had figured Bivol out by the fourth spherical of their sparring and that he was near taking place after he “lit him up with a 15-20 punch burst of punches. These had been the identical ones he was throwing on the Cuban Morrell, however he was youthful, stronger, and extra able to taking these punches than Bivol.
“There were times that I got the best of him. So, that’s how I know I’d beat him,” mentioned Benavidez about Bivol. “I’m not going to go in there too assured. I positively believe in myself that I’d beat him.
“I talked to Turki Alalshikh. They [Bivol and Artur Beterbiev] want to do the third fight, but I’ve also got the #1 spot. We’re able to control a lot of stuff. We’re able to negotiate now. If they pay me what I want to be paid, I don’t mind fighting on the undercard, especially if it’s going to bring more attention to the card,” mentioned Benavidez.
