Benavidez wants to fight Usyk, but not for 5 or 6 years

David Benavidez says he would be open to fighting Oleksandr Usyk but would prefer to wait “five or six years” before facing it. He believes he needs “more experience” before fighting heavyweight champion Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs). Oleksandr is not going to wait for Benavidez. If you lack the self-confidence to fight him now, that fight will not happen.

Usyk expects: 5-6 years

Benavidez says he could still take the fight if it was offered to him. He admits it would be one of the toughest of his career, which is an understatement.

Usyk is very skilled and would take advantage of Benavidez’s habit of leaving himself open for counts due to his volume of punches. The ‘Mexican-Ecuadorian-American monster’ Benavidez hasn’t had to change his fighting style because he fought smaller guys while campaigning at 168 for the first ten years of his career.

In his recent debut at 175, he took a lot of hard shots against Oleksandr Gvozdyk as he tried to overwhelm him with volume, and his face looked like it had been hit by a tractor-trailer at the end of the 12-round contest. .

If Benavidez moved up to heavyweight or cruiserweight to face Usyk, he wouldn’t be able to use volume against him without being criticized and embarrassed. That style only works against smaller or weaker fighters.

In 39 days, Benavidez will face regular WBA champion David Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on February 22 on PPB on Prime Video PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

This is a fight that will show what kind of figure Benavidez has in the 175-pound division. If he can’t beat Morrell, he may have to go back to 168 if he can because things will only get worse for him against the other assassins at 175.

“I’m going to hurt David Morrell”

“Anyone who watches this fight will have a great time watching this. “I am 100% ready,” David Benavidez told fighttalking about his February 22 contest against WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion David Morrell in Las Vegas.

“I’ve been training for almost four and a half months. I will not leave any stone unturned and I am very motivated for this fight. Not only to get the victory, but also to get the knockout. I’m going to go in there and I’m going to hurt David Morrell.

“I’m going to make him eat all his words, and when I knock him out and take the belt, he’ll know who is the best in the world,” Benavidez said.

With Morrell’s power in both hands, he has an excellent chance of knocking out Benavidez in this fight if he fights the same way he has been fighting. Morrell hits too hard and will knock out Benavidez just like he did with Sena Agbeko and Yamaguchi Falcão. Those guys had great chins before their fights with Morrell, but he took them down quickly.

“I don’t think I have enough experience to fight Usyk,” Benavidez said when asked if he would like to fight Oleksandr Usyk. “Never say never. Maybe in the future, but for now, I’m just focused on these guys. Maybe in five or six years, but at that time I’ll probably be around 40 (try 42 or 43),” Benavidez said of Usyk.

“I have enormous respect for Usyk. He is the greatest of all time. “If I have the opportunity to share the ring with him, I’m not going to say no, but it will probably be the toughest fight I’ve ever had in my entire life,” Benavidez said.

It sounds weak for Benavidez to talk about needing more experience before fighting Usyk because he has too much professional experience to accept this fight. Furthermore, she is almost ten years younger than him.