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David Benavidez continues to talk about steroids as a sales pitch for his fight against ‘regular’ WBA light heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1.
It’s a strange way to promote the fight and get fans interested, but Benavidez doesn’t seem to have much to say during his interviews. Furthermore, he is Still making excuses for his terrible performance in his debut at 175 against Oleksandr Gvozdyk last June. It sounds so weak.
PPV Title Fight
Next month, Benavidez will have his interim WBC 175-pound title on the line against Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) in his main card on PBC on Prime Video PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
“You’ve never heard my name associated with steroids. You’ve heard the name David Morrell associated with steroids,” David Benavidez told Xicana Boxing about David Morrell, speaking about his unfounded suspicions that he was dirty before their fight on February 1.
“The guy he fought said they tested him, but they didn’t test David Morrell, even after the fight there is no drug testing. That’s weird because there’s always drug testing right after the fight. I want to tell people that if you had something to hide, why would you order more drug tests?
“We had nothing to hide and that’s why we tried to ask for clean boxing. We are testing everything we can to make sure nothing strange is happening.
“I’m definitely going to punish him,” Benavidez said of Morrell. “As for when it will end, I don’t think about that. I’m thinking about going in and making my game plan. The difference between my last fight (Oleksandr Gvozdyk) and his fight (Radivoje Kalajdzic). I went in there with two injured hands.
Excuses or reality?
“I had a torn tendon here, a fractured knuckle and I cut myself when I got 10 stitches three weeks before the fight. So I was already going through a lot of adversity. The fighter I faced was much better than the fighter he faced,” Benavidez said.
“I think that shows that I am a different caliber fighter. A lot of people, if he had hurt his hand, would have canceled the fight. I had two injured hands. I didn’t cancel the fight because it was a big deal.
“Tank and I were fighting on the same card on PPV. So imagine if I had pulled out of the fight, I would have disappointed my fans. “I care about my fans more than anything,” Benavidez said.
What ‘The Mexican Monster’ doesn’t say is that he looked worse against Gvozdyk than Morrell did in his unilateral victory over Kalajdzic. Morrell hurt his opponent repeatedly in that fight in the head, and his body grew stronger as the fight progressed. By contrast, Benavidez never hurt Gvozdyk and tired after six rounds. He took a beating down the stretch.
There were no signs that Benavidez was injured in his last fight against Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15. He was throwing punches at full power with both hands and didn’t seem hurt. What Benavidez looked bad about was how he tired in the second half, took a lot of hard shots from Gvozdyk, 37, and hurt his body.
The fatigue has nothing to do with injured hands and everything to do with Benavidez not supporting the extra weight well.
Benavidez has made excuses for his poor performance in his debut at 175 against Oleksandr Gvozdyk, blaming injured hands and a recent cut. It would have been better if he had let his performance speak for itself instead of making excuses afterwards.
