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Tim Bradley says David Morrell can win tonight if he focuses on attacking ‘The Mexican Monster’ David Benavidez’s physique all through the combat on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Morrell’s Alternative
Bradley notes that Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) squares up in entrance of his opponents, utilizing a excessive guard to defend his head however doing nothing to dam physique pictures. Benavidez additionally tends to throw a number of punches, relying on his offense to be his protection, and he might be countered to his rounded, pear-shaped physique.
Between fights, Benavidez balloons in weight like Tyson Fury, forcing him to dedicate time to shedding weight. Concentrating on that Fury-like physique is the important thing for Morrell to win this combat as a result of that’s the one space the place Benavidez has confirmed to be weak.
“If you attack that body, you’re going to have a lot of success. That’s because Benavidez squares up too much,” mentioned Tim Bradley to Fighthype about what David Morrell should do to defeat David Benavidez tonight. “He makes use of a excessive guard for protection. He’ll transfer his head.
“If Morrell can keep concentrated, wash, rinse, and repeat his recreation plan. Assault that physique, use his boxing abilities means, keep away from getting trapped on the ropes, staying within the middle within the ring, and staying constant.
“I think Benavidez is going to have to come from behind to win this fight. I think Morrell has great boxing ability to operate and control the action up until six. We’ll see late because he doesn’t have late-round experience. He’s only gone the distance twice. It’s a close matchup.”
Morrell and his group have clearly famous that Benavidez can’t be damage within the head as a result of his thick cranium simply absorbs punches. Benavidez has these Neanderthal man-like forehead ridges, which signifies that his cranium bones are dense and may take punches {that a} regular individual couldn’t.
Exploiting Benavidez’s Weak point
The one probability of knocking out Benavidez is hurting him to the physique the best way Oleksandr Gvozdyk did when he redirected his punches from the top to his physique within the twelfth spherical of their combat final yr on June fifteenth. When Gvozdyk lastly modified techniques, he had Benavidez wanting mortal.
It’s stunning that an clever fighter like Gvozdyk went the primary 11 rounds with out altering techniques. Morrell noticed what he did to Benavidez, and he received’t waste time focusing on his cinderblock head to waste his punches. He’ll go after that weak physique of Benavidez and make him give up on his knees. Each fighter has a weak point, and we’ve seen that Benavidez has one obvious one. He can’t take it to the physique.
“Morrell likes guys that are right in front of him. His last fight [Radivoje Kalajdzic] showed me that he doesn’t like guys that move and can actually box and pick up their feet,” mentioned Bradley. “If Benavidez is going to be right in front and not just change distances, he’s going to be there to be hit.”
“That’s why Morrell is mocking him and trying to get under his skin. If Benavidez is smart, he does have an IQ. I don’t know if it’s on the level of Morrell, but it’s damn good. It’s underrated,” mentioned Bradley.
