Can Morrell become the first fighter to knock out Benavidez?

The former two divisions champion Antonio Trver believes that David Morrell may need a knockout to defeat the interim semi-marked weight champion of the WBC, David Benavidez, in eight days, on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

If Benavidez attacks Morrell as he does with all his opponents, he could be knocked out by Cuban talent in the first assault.

Morrell has much more power and technical skill for Benavidez to fight in the primitive style to which he had become accustomed from his thug of weight dominating fossils in 168. Benavidez’s career has been built on a weak pairing and fighting very much for under its huge cruise weight size.

Tarver feels that Benavidez (29-0, 24 kos) is too much size and professional experience so that the former Cuban amateur star Morrell (11-0, 9 kos) can overcome it without knocking it out. Benavidity production will make Morrell difficult to win a decision if it is overcome by a wide margin in this fight.

Benavidez’s habit of throwing many shots could be his downfall in this fight because he risks his chin and receives many blows. It depends on his performance to drown his opponent, which has worked because he has fought mainly against smaller fighters during the 11 years he fought in 168.

Morrell is a stronger pest than the boys with which Benavidez has fought, and will be a threat of knockout in this fight. He will have many opportunities to hurt Benavidez because he is very accustomed to fighting with older and smaller fighters. He has only fought a type of size, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, and was really hit by that fighter. Gvozdyk hurt him in the body.

Is knockout needed?

“I think Morrell needed one or two more evidence to be able to handle the ability, power and trust with which David Benavidez comes to the table,” said Antonio Tarver on his YouTube channel. Tarverstake About the fight between David Benavidez and David Morrell in eight days on February 1.

“I think David Morrell will have to find that shot that not only falls but also shocks. You have to knock out David Benavidez. Sometimes there are fighters you can give up. I don’t think any of these fighters can force them to give up.

“Sometimes you have to knock them out, and I think this is one of those types of fights in which, to ensure victory, one of these boys will have to finish the fight inside the distance. David Benavidez will have a small advantage in scope and size (correction: 6’1 ″ Morrell has an advantage of four inches. 6’2 ′ Benavidez is a higher inch and could be heavier) ”.

It seems that Taver has drunk Kool-Aid, believing the same as other Benavidity fans have said about him. If you stop the garbage that the followers of benavidity are saying about it and look closely at their A. huge size and B. the smallest and most opposition that had been defeating, you would see that it is simply a typical thug of weight.

“I think this will be one of the most talented fighters that Benavidez has faced,” Taver said. “Morrell arrives with a lot of talent. The experience. Types like Caleb Plant, that type of fighters that Benavidez has faced. The semi -shed weight (Oleksandr Gvozdyk) with which (fought) was very hard. ”

You cannot mention the exaggeration of Benavidez for winning Caleb Plant because Canelo Álvarez did a much better job by defeating him than him. Plant won the first five assaults against Benavidez and fought against him alone for his skills. Canelo dominated Plant and knocked out.

Benavidity could be exaggerated if Plant had power and if Canelo had not knocked him out before fighting him. He did not do a better job beating Plant that Canelo and lost almost all the first six rounds. Plant exposed it. If that is what you are going to evaluate Benavidity and use as reasoning to defeat Morrell, you are not thinking clearly.

Body attack key

“He didn’t knock it out, but he could reach the end,” Morrelll said about Benavidez fight against Gvozdyk. “If you think who can stop who, I think of David Benavidity with that attack on the body. If you can concentrate on that from the beginning and have some success, that will really help you in the final stretch. Morrell does not use a consistent body attack. I think most of that is hunting heads.

“When you do the transition from amateur to professional, you have to sit down to receive those blows and have that attack on the body. That is why I would recommend any fighter to invest in that body. If you see one of these types by lowering the stairs from the beginning, seek to have a lifted hand.

“You will have to take risks when you reach the body. You have to be conscious enough to know when you are in a safe place. You cannot be there with your hands down when you try to tear the body, not with any of these types. Both boys are excellent counterattas, ”said Tarver.