David Benavidez is again in coaching, engaged on his mixture punching as ordinary. The previous two-time WBC tremendous middleweight champion Benavidez is in a holding sample ready for the winner of the October twelfth battle between mild heavyweight champions Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Nonetheless Throwing Machine Gun Mixtures
In a video clip of the ‘Mexican Monster,’ Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) is seen throwing machine gun mixtures, grunting closely, and crowding the particular person throwing the mitts.
Benavidez, 27, utilized that preventing model successfully whereas campaigning at 168 as a result of he was larger than his opponents. To date, that model has not labored for him, as he was shelled in his final battle when he fought that means.
Within the 175-lb division, Benavidez is a fish out of water, trying nothing just like the fighter he’d been when campaigning at tremendous middleweight towards smaller, much less gifted, older opposition. Benavidez is simply too weak for the sunshine heavyweight division, and his dangerous behavior of standing at shut vary throwing speedy mixtures will make him weak towards the top-tier mild heavyweights.
Meals for 175-pounders
Benavidez is meals for the sharks at 175 with that strategy. Benavidez may get away with preventing that means if he had energy, however he’s not a puncher. He’s a quantity man, and people fighters don’t do properly at 175.
As we noticed in Benavidez’s debut at 175 towards former WBC mild heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June fifteenth, he’s weak when he makes an attempt to battle shut. He was nailed by heavy photographs from the extra highly effective and technically gifted Gvozdyk in that battle and punished closely.
Much more worrisome was how Benavidez gassed out after six rounds and was preventing on fumes from the seventh spherical. Gvozdyk dominated the ultimate six rounds, showing to win each spherical, however the judges surprisingly gave Benavidez a large 12-round unanimous determination.
The result regarded like a draw. Benavidez didn’t deserve the win, and the judges did him no favors by giving him a large determination as a result of social media followers noticed him as undeserving of his victory.
The Have to Change Preventing Strategy
If Artur Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) emerges victorious on October twelfth towards Bivol, Benavidez should change his strategy to preventing. He gained’t final lengthy if he makes an attempt to brawl with Beterbiev shut, firing his trademark mixtures. Beterbiev focuses on preventing at shut vary and hits a lot tougher than Benavidez.
Benavidez is the WBC obligatory for the Beterbiev-Bivol undisputed mild heavyweight championship winner, and it seems he’ll keep inactive to battle whoever emerges from that battle.
Given Benavidez’s struggles in his battle with Oleksandr Gvozdyk, he shouldn’t take any possibilities of preventing anybody till he will get his big-money battle towards the Beterbiev vs. Bivol. There’s an excessive amount of cash at stake for Benavidez to take the danger of taking a tune-up earlier than dealing with the winner of that conflict.
