Coach Jose Benavidez Sr. predicts that his son, WBC interim gentle heavyweight champion David Benavidez will knockout WBA ‘common’ champ David Morrell within the eighth spherical once they meet on January twenty fifth subsequent 12 months.
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) and the Cuban Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) will meet in a combat that can be like an eliminator as a result of the winner will go on to ultimately face the winner of the rematch between undisputed gentle heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Jose Sr. says he wasn’t focused on making the combat with Morrell, 26, earlier than as a result of he lacked expertise, although his lengthy novice profession gave him greater than sufficient to face Benavidez. Morrell completed his novice profession with a document of 130-5 in his native Cuba.
What lastly made Jose Sr. change his thoughts about Morrell was his latest combat towards Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third. After that win by Morrell, Jose Sr. determined it was time to present Benavidez the inexperienced gentle to combat him.
That efficiency by Morrell wasn’t certainly one of his higher ones, and a few imagine that Jose Jr. wanted him to look flawed, so he’d been assured sufficient to let his son combat him.
“I feel it’s time. He’s been doing effectively. He bought one other title at 175, and that’s one thing we’d like so as to preserve advancing. He desires to indicate the world that he’s prepared. Why not combat for the WBA common?” mentioned coach Jose Benavidez Sr. to MillCity Boxing about David Morrell going through his son David Benavidez on January twenty fifth.
Morrell holds the WBA ‘common’ gentle heavyweight title after his win over Kalajdzic, and that provides Benavidez an vital belt that he wants for him to look credible. His final efficiency towards Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June fifteenth was poor. A variety of followers famous how Benavidez gassed after six rounds, and took numerous punishment.
“It’s an ideal combat. He does have numerous expertise. I’ve at all times mentioned he’s a superb fighter,” mentioned Jose Sr. “He’d had numerous novice fights, and I feel he’s prepared. I do not know [how many fights]. I simply heard he was an excellent novice.
“David [Benavidez] has all of the expertise, and I feel he’s going to cease him within the eighth spherical. Now you understand he’s examined at 175. He was injured for that combat. Within the eleventh spherical, you would see he was minimize. He’s good now, and I feel it’s going to be an ideal combat.
“I feel it’s a greater combat than preventing Jesse Hart. Lots of people have been saying that we have been working from him and that we have been scared,” mentioned Jose Sr. about Morrell being an ideal combat for Benavidez. “Now that we bought the combat, some persons are saying we now have no expertise.
“We wish to preserve David busy. No person desires to step contained in the ring with David. We wish to get these massive fights with Beterbiev and Bivol. But when they don’t wish to combat, we are able to’t be ready,” mentioned Jose Sr.
