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Demetrius Andrade warns Canelo Alvarez to avoid his former conqueror, David Benavidez, after losing to him via sixth-round knockout in 2023. Andrade believes Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) is too big and throws too many combinations to May Canelo defeat. him.
It’s understandable why Demetrius is trying to make Benavidez look invincible because that lessens the impact of his loss against him. His ego took a hit in that fight and he suffered the first loss of his career. So, he’s trying to protect his ego by making Benavidez seem like an exceptional talent when he really isn’t.
Benavidez’s next opponent
We saw it in his fight against the 37-year-old. Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15. Gvozdyk had recently come out of a four-year retirement and outplayed Benavidez, giving him all kinds of lumps on his face.
Canelo has not mentioned wanting to fight ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez, and the two fighters now compete in different weight classes. Benavidez, 28, fights at light heavyweight and will challenge the regular WBA 175-pound champion. David Morell in 33 days on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
If Benavidez loses that fight by knockout, he can return to the 168-pound division if he can still make weight. It would be useless for him to stay at 175 if Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) destroys him. Morrell is as big as Benavidez but faster, hits harder, is younger and has better technical skills.
There’s a good chance Morrell wins that fight and permanently takes care of Canelo’s problem, not that he needs help. Andrade, 36, may be impressed by Benavidez’s offensive skills, but he is not a knockout puncher. He couldn’t even stop Caleb Plant.
The only reason he stopped Andrade is because of his size and youthful advantage. He was 26 years old when he defeated Demetrius last year, on November 25.
Don’t do it!
“I don’t think Canelo is beating David (Benavidez). I don’t blame him for not fighting David. Canelo, stay away from David. Don’t do it,” Demetrius Andrade told Fight Hub TV. “I am taller and longer than Canelo. I don’t know if Canelo (can beat Benavidez). That’s a big boy.
“You have to have the right skills, movement, IQ and sharpness to beat David, unless David fights the next biggest man at 175, it will be a different story. But at 168, that’s how you have to be to beat him.
“Canelo is smaller than me and I was able to push David for a few rounds and do what I have to do. But that weight and his length, and he knows how to throw punches in bunches, will be a difficult task for Canelo.
“David is also not someone who is going to give in to you. “Canelo is not winning it,” Andrade said of his belief that Alvarez cannot beat Benavidez.
Canelo would have already fought Benavidez, but he talked so much trash and seemed needy. The way Benavidez seems obsessed with Alvarez is scary, almost like a stalker. For any popular wrestler that someone sounds so obsessed with the way Benavidez has manifested himself, they would ignore him too.
