David Benavidez might have made the mistaken transfer by selecting to face extremely expert WBA ‘common’ mild heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1st.
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) had been swerving the Cuban Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) for the final two years, ignoring his callouts and specializing in taking simpler fights in opposition to outdated relics, David Lemieux, Caleb Plant, and Demetrius Andrade.
After Morrell Jr’s final struggle in opposition to Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third, which wasn’t one among his higher ones, Benavidez and his dad/coach, Jose Benavidez Sr., lastly relented to face him. Per Salvador Rodriguez on X, Benavidez-Morrell will probably be preventing on a PBC present on February 1st on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
It’s too late for Benavidez to vary his thoughts and never undergo with the struggle in opposition to Morrell as a result of if he loses, he can neglect concerning the large payday preventing the winner of the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol 2 rematch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and making a goldmine from the struggle.
Benavidez Should Change His Fashion For Morrell
David Benavidez seemed far worse in his debut at 175 in opposition to former mild heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June fifteenth. In that struggle by which Benavidez gained by a 12-round unanimous determination, he pale after six rounds and took quite a lot of punishment within the closing six rounds, greater than in different struggle of his profession.
The ultimate punch stats
Benavidez landed 270 of 749 punches for a 36% join price. For his half, Gvozdyk landed 223 of 675 for 33%. Gvozdyk landed the a lot more durable punches and was the stronger fighter down the stretch in opposition to an exhausted-looking Benavidez.
Benavidez made excuses after the struggle, blaming his disappointing efficiency readily available accidents. However followers didn’t consider him as a result of he’d been preventing the identical manner at 168, however his opposition was a lot smaller than him and never as proficient as Gvozdyk.
From 2013, he beat ham and eggers for a full decade with out stepping up in opposition to fighters his personal measurement. He moved as much as 175 to struggle abilities like Dmitry Bivol, Artur Beterbiev, and Joshua Buatsi.
Within the Gvozdyk struggle, Benavidez confirmed that his energy hadn’t traveled up with him from the 168-lb division and that his preventing model of throwing machine gun mixtures wouldn’t work for him at mild heavyweight. Certainly, if Benavidez doesn’t change that model quickly, he’s going to be null & void, heading to Palookaville, questioning what occurred to his once-promising profession.
Morrell Hits Too Onerous For Benavidez
David Morrell is clearly the most important puncher within the 175-lb division in the present day and possesses an excessive amount of energy for Benavidez to strive preventing the identical manner in opposition to him that he’d performed at 168 or in his struggle in opposition to Gvozdyk.
Benavidez acquired a nasty beating within the Gvozdyk match and was badly marked up after the struggle. He seemed like he’d been in a torture chamber after that struggle. For a quantity puncher with below-average energy like Benavidez, it might be dangerous for him to struggle Morrell and try to outwork him.
The danger of getting knocked out by Morrell is simply too excessive, and it wouldn’t finish properly for him. Benavidez’s model is made to order for Morrell. His final opponent, Kalajdzic, had a tougher model for Morrell due to his counter-punching and energy. Kalajdzic is without doubt one of the largest punchers within the 175-lb division and has extra energy than Benavidez. Morrell needed to be cautious with him due to the counter pictures.
