A slim-looking WBC interim mild heavyweight champion, David Benavidez, was displaying off his hand velocity in a exercise within the gymnasium coaching for his 12-round battle in opposition to David Morrell on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV.
Within the video clip, Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) threw machine gun rapid-fire mixtures and appeared scary quick. He used a few of that in his debut at 175 in opposition to Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Nonetheless, he acquired hit exhausting by the previous WBC champion and needed to pull again on utilizing that method within the later rounds.
The excellent news for Benavidez’s followers is that he seems to have misplaced the intestine that he had a month in the past. He took the burden off quick. There’s nonetheless a month off earlier than the struggle, so Benavidez could get even leaner. Within the video clip, Benavidez resembles Morrell, however his mixture punching is what units him aside.
Morrell’s Counterpunching
That type may get Benavidez in bother with the Cubans. Morrell hits exhausting, and it might be a mistake for Benavidez to attempt to stand at shut vary and throw his mixtures.
Preventing like that labored for ‘The Mexican Monster’ when he campaigned at 168 in opposition to older fighters like Demetrius Andrade and weaker ones like Caleb Plant. Preventing in a wreckless method in opposition to Morrell or Artur Beterbiev goes to get Benavidez knocked out.
That is the primary actual struggle for Benavidez. He’s padded his report for the final 11 years, preventing smaller guys at 168, after which didn’t look so good when he moved as much as 175 on June fifteenth in opposition to former WBC champion Gvozdyk. He’ll look worse in opposition to Morrell if he chooses to throw punches in bunches, as he confirmed in his video clip.
It’s believed that the only purpose Crew Benavidez took this struggle is that Morrell didn’t look good in his debut at mild heavyweight in opposition to Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third.
Nonetheless, Morrell had him harm a number of instances within the early rounds however didn’t put him away as a result of he was trying to knock him out with a single shot somewhat than throwing mixtures. That was an newbie mistake. Towards Benavidez, Morrell will probably be completely different and could have mounted that drawback.
Being within the gymnasium with David Benavidez was a blessing man … can’t anticipate him to cook dinner David Morrell pic.twitter.com/vUam0YFpPw
— 2ToneDaSupastar (@2ToneDaSupastar) January 1, 2025
