Unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez will face Edgar Berlanga on September 14 on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas, whereas David Benavidez has determined to remain at 175 kilos. That sounds nice for the Cuban David Morrell.
Benavidez vs. Morrell was a combat that was talked about for a very long time, as each have been making careers at tremendous middleweight. Simply over three weeks in the past, Morrell’s representatives, by way of Luis DeCubas, introduced that the Cuban would proceed his profession at 175 kilos.
Benavidez’s relentless pursuit lastly got here to an finish. Benavidez selected to achieve weight and proceed his profession, aiming for excellent fights in 175 libs, as a result of Canelo didn’t wish to give him the choice to combat that combat.
Now, the image appears clearer. Canelo will face Berlanga for the 168-pound titles, and Benavidez stays the obligatory opponent within the combat between WBA gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol and IBF/WBC/WBO champion Artur Beterbiev on October 12. With this state of affairs, Morrell’s choices increase as a result of he’ll doubtless face Benavidez in 2025.
David Morrell’s debut at 175 is on August 3 towards Radivoje ‘Sizzling Rod’ Kalajdzic on the Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov undercard on the Riyadh Season occasion on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. The Serbian Kalajdzic, who’s ranked #4 with the WBA, knocked out veteran Sullivan Barrera within the tenth spherical final March.
Benavidez made his debut in 175, profitable a 12-round unanimous determination on June fifteenth towards former WBC gentle heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk. The WBC interim title and the obligatory spot have been at stake in that combat.
Benavidez is now the WBC interim champion and obligatory for the October twelfth combat between Bivol and Beterbiev. Nevertheless, it’s not dominated out that Benavidez will take one other combat at tremendous middleweight earlier than exercising his proper to face the winner of the undisputed 175-lb championship between Beterbiev and Bivol.
David Morrell is the youngest boxer of all, with 26 years in 175 kilos and fewer fights, 10-0- (9 KO). After seeing all of the strikes occurring nowadays, he would be the huge winner. Beterbiev, who’s 39 years previous, seems to have few remaining fights, whereas Bivol, who’s 33, should keep away from Artur’s highly effective photographs on October twelfth to win.
Even when Benavidez, at 27, decides to lastly train his proper to combat for the titles because the obligatory challenger towards the winner of the Bivol-Beterbiev bout, all this finally advantages Morrell. For David Morrell to ascertain himself as a big boxer within the light-heavyweight division within the close to future, he should maintain profitable and climbing the rankings.
