A slim-looking WBC interim gentle heavyweight champion, David Benavidez, was displaying off his hand velocity in a exercise within the health club coaching for his 12-round battle towards 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 towards Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Nonetheless, he obtained 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 combat, so Benavidez might get even leaner. Within the video clip, Benavidez resembles Morrell, however his mixture punching is what units him aside.
Morrell’s Counterpunching
That fashion 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 towards older fighters like Demetrius Andrade and weaker ones like Caleb Plant. Preventing in a wreckless method towards Morrell or Artur Beterbiev goes to get Benavidez knocked out.
That is the primary actual combat for Benavidez. He’s padded his document for the final 11 years, combating smaller guys at 168, after which didn’t look so good when he moved as much as 175 on June fifteenth towards former WBC champion Gvozdyk. He’ll look worse towards Morrell if he chooses to throw punches in bunches, as he confirmed in his video clip.
It’s believed that the only cause Group Benavidez took this combat is that Morrell didn’t look good in his debut at gentle heavyweight towards Radivoje Kalajdzic on August third.
Nonetheless, Morrell had him harm a number of occasions 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 quite than throwing mixtures. That was an novice mistake. In opposition to Benavidez, Morrell might be totally different and may have mounted that downside.
Being within the health club with David Benavidez was a blessing man … can’t look forward to him to prepare dinner David Morrell pic.twitter.com/vUam0YFpPw
— 2ToneDaSupastar (@2ToneDaSupastar) January 1, 2025
