Benavidez’s game plan revealed: accompany Morrell and test his heart

David Benavidez says he will try to take down ‘regular’ WBA light heavyweight champion David Morrell and “hurt him in every round” in his main card in 40 days on February 1 on PBC on Prime Video PPV on the T- Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Vegas.

Walking down Morrell

Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) believes he can “hurt” Cuban Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs), and wants to see if he has some “heart” pushing him. This could be a mistake for ‘Mexican Monster’ Benavidez trying to defeat Morrell in this fight because he is arguably the biggest puncher in the 175-pound division. You could crash into something and become unconscious.

For most of his career, Benavidez, 28, has been competing in a division below his size, draining to compete at 168 instead of where he should be at 175. As such, fans have labeled him a “heavy bully.” ‘ and it’s hard to argue against that seeing him rehydrated during his fights. Looks like a cruiserweight.

Morrell is about the same size as Benavidez but with more power. He doesn’t sport a Fury-style belly like him, as he keeps his weight down between fights and doesn’t indulge in treats.

Testing Morrell’s chin

“I definitely think I can hurt him. “I’m going to do my game plan the best I can to try to hurt him as much as possible,” David Benavidez told Sean Zitteltalking about what his approach is for his clash against WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1.

“If the knockout comes, it comes. If it’s not like that, it’s not like that. My game plan will be focused on him all night and literally trying to hurt him every round. For him to give up, I don’t know. That’s the question. I want to see if David Morrell really has that heart or if he has that dog inside him.

“I’m going to try to hurt him every round, so we’ll see what happens. For this fight I feel very strong. Everything feels good right now. I am injury free. I have been training very well. “I’ve been training for a long time and I’m ready for this,” Benavidez said.

In Benavidez’s debut at 175 against Oleksandr Gvozdyk, his punches did not affect him in their June 15 clash. He looked like an average volume puncher and ate a lot of hard shots from Gvozdyk in that fight. Recently, Benavidez has blamed his poor performance on a host of different injuries, making himself sound like a walking wounded in that battle.

David’s punches seemed to be thrown with the same power as when he was fighting at 168. The only difference was that he was fighting a guy the same size and it had no effect. Benavidez’s injuries could be a sign that he is physically breaking down after a long career in the sport. He has been fighting for more than 10 years and is approaching 30.

Fighters usually end at that point in their careers, unless they are genetically special. For Benavidez to suffer, multiple injuries indicate that he is coming to the end like normal fighters and is not one of the special ones.

Benavidez’s excuses

“I am ready to excel in my career and face the biggest challenges there are. “I don’t want to be a hypocrite,” Benavidez said of the perception of him crying because Canelo Alvarez didn’t fight him and yet he had been avoiding a fight against Morrell for two years.

Benavidez was a hypocrite because he didn’t want to fight Morrell and was doing the same thing Canelo did with him. His excuse that he had fights with more money at his disposal is the same excuse that Canelo used to not fight him. The reality is that Morrell was too dangerous and Benavidez did not want to lose.

“It’s not like I wasn’t giving him (Morrell) the opportunity. It was that Caleb (Plant) was a bigger fight than him. ‘Boo Boo’ (Demetrius Andrade) fights him. Then, getting to 175, when I got on, he came right behind me. So, it was perfect. He got his belt (WBA ‘regular’) and I got my belt (WBC interim light heavyweight). That’s why I say now is the perfect time to make this fight a reality,” Benavidez said.

Benavidez isn’t saying he was taking other less risky fights instead of facing Morrell. Benavidez had been called up by Cuban talent for over two years and was taking easier fights, fighting these guys:

–David Lemieux
–Kyrone Davis
-Ronald Ellis