Henderson: Morrell fights “Fishy” – Boxing News 24

Kalvan Henderson is another David Morrell knockout victim who suspects something was wrong in their fight. He has come out of nowhere to complain about suspicions about him and suspects something is wrong with the lack of drug testing for his 2022 fight.

Henderson (19-2-1, 13 KOs) was knocked out in the fourth round by Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on June 4, 2022, at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said there was no drug testing for the fight and he felt something suspicious was going on. Even though he has no proof and is guessing, he believes something is up.

Morrell looked thin in the fight and didn’t look like someone who used banned substances, but Henderson is still suspicious. Another of Morrell’s knockout victims, Sena Agbeko, has recently spoken of her suspicions about him due to the lack of anti-doping testing. Although he doesn’t have proof either, he keeps talking.

Henderson believes WBC interim light heavyweight champion David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) will defeat WBA ‘regular’ champion Morrell in their fight on February 1 because he says he’s bigger than him and has better resistance. They are the same size, but oh well.

“Superman” Morrell? Henderson has doubts

“I went to Morrell’s second home in Minnesota. Nobody else wanted to fight him. He had a great game plan. I felt like the fight stopped early. Was the guy (Morrell) winning the fight? Yes, but we had a game plan for the deeper rounds,” Kalvin Henderson told fightstill bitter from his fourth-round TKO loss to David Morrell from two years ago, on June 4, 2022.

“I’m catching him with body shots and I’m listening to what those body shots are doing to him. I knew I was going to slow down eventually. That fight was supposed to be drug tested, and we both signed the paperwork for it to be drug tested. We get to the fight in the locker room and the WBA forgets to order drug testing.

“So, that’s another thing. We are not only fighting politics. We’re fighting a potentially dirty fighter in Morrell… After the fight, there was still no drug test. There is something suspicious. “Superman only exists in the comics,” Henderson said when asked if there is anything ‘fishy’ about David Morrell.

There was nothing “Superman” about Morrell scoring a fourth-round knockout of Kalvin Henderson. He backed him up against the ropes and nailed him with several hard blows; The referee saw that Henderson was taking some wicked shots and stopped them.

He would have been hurt if he had allowed Morrell to continue hitting Henderson. There was too much time left in the round for the referee to let the fight continue.

“These guys have a lot of money behind them, a lot of money on things that are out of their control. So of course they will be in the best position possible,” Henderson said. “This guy (Morrell) was bigger than me in the ring the night of the fight. The fighters know it. Before the weigh-in, he was drinking Gatorade before stepping on the scale. “Something smells bad.”

It’s a long shot on Henderson’s part to conclude that Morrell drank Gatorade at the weigh-in and was using banned substances. These are wild guesses on your part. He’s drinking Gatorade; therefore, it is dirty. That doesn’t make sense, but if you’re trying to understand why Morrell beat you, you need to find something instead of accepting that you weren’t good enough.

Will Benavidez beat Morrell?

“I think Benavidez is going to beat Morrell by sheer size and toughness. Benavidez throws hard punches for 15 straight rounds. So, I think his relentless pressure and non-stop (punches) will make the difference in this fight. “I don’t think Benavidez’s power translates to 175,” Henderson said.

Kalvin is a little confused. Benavidez is no bigger than Morrell, and his stamina at 175 is no better than his at 168. We saw that in Benavidez’s last fight at 175 when he exhausted himself after six rounds against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Morrell has greater reach than Benavidez by four inches, hits harder and has better hand speed and technical ability. You wouldn’t expect Henderson to know the details between Morrell and Benavidez because he’s a fighter and doesn’t analyze fights like writers do.

“At 168 years old, he was huge. Some people called him a ‘weight bully’, but at 175, it’s more of a natural weight class for him. So, I think we’ll see longer fights for Benavidez and Morrell, maybe in that weight class as well because the fighters are bigger,” Henderson said.

Things are going to be very different for Benavidez at 175 compared to his heavyweight bruiser days at 168, where he routinely enjoyed a huge size advantage over his mix of old, weak and severely flawed opponents that his promoters pitted him against. They had faced each other for 28 of the first 29 fights of his career.

You can’t blame ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez for choosing to stay at 168 for so long because it allowed him to carve out a career that otherwise wouldn’t be there if he had fought where he should have been at 175 since turning. professional in 2013.

If Benavidez had fought at light heavyweight, he probably would have been defeated many times by now. He would be just one of the group, along with other contenders such as Joshua Buatsi, Willy Hutchinson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.