Morel promised to make it “look easy” on Benavidez.

David Morrell says he will make it “easy” by beating David Benavidez in their 12-round lightweight title in two weeks from today, February 1st.

WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion Morel (11-0, 9 KOs) describes Benavidez as a light, “fat” push fighter who walks forward, throws punches but has no “power” in his punches. He says he knows he’s stronger than Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs), which goes without saying.

Benavidez’s lack of energy

The ‘Mexican Monster’ is powerless. In 168 AD, he was a big fish in a small pond and thrived as a sound bowler in his first 11 years.

Like many young fighters, Benavidez can fight in a division below his size. We saw the same thing with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. early in his career.

Now that Benavidez is at 175, his advantage is gone, his lack of punching power is more than a liability, and he no longer has the size to drop. Now he’s fighting Morel, who’s just as big as him, but with more skill and talent, a true knockout artist. It doesn’t look good for Benavidez.

Morel: Making it “look easy”.

“Benavidez is not easy, but I make it look easy. They are two different things,” Morrell said. The glove is off Section 2. “Every time you come to the gym, work, work, work. It’s better to cry here than in the ring.”

“That’s the problem with this fight. “He and I, we’re both pressure people.” Morel Benavidez pressured his last opponent, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, in his 175 debut on June 15 last year in Las Vegas. “Both guys like to come forward and put pressure on. Who’s stronger? I know it’s me.”

“Everybody says he didn’t have the power to kill some people in his last fight. He has none. This is my actual weight at 175,” Morrell said. Now I am comfortable with this weight,” he said.

Frame-wise, Benavidez is a lightweight and has been throughout his career, but his power is like a middleweight (160 pounds), and he’s hitting harder than he did when he fought at 168. 175 against former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk in a penalty shootout.

At 175, life will be very different for Benavidez. He fights killers like Morel and faces quality opposition for the first time in his long pro career. As a 12-year pro, Benavidez is promising, pushing for the first time, but he’s not physically young.

Body betrayal

Benavidez’s body has seen the wear and tear of a fighter who has been in the game for more than a decade. All the sparring battles made it even more boring. Benavidez was down with left and right injuries in his last fight and we are now seeing the damage.

That rears its ugly head from a long career. It is an old car with 300,000 miles on the odometer. Yes, you turn the car on, but it’s still an old car engine and transmission art. So is Benavidez. A lot of distance on it.

“I truly believe I am witnessing a legend. He reminds me a lot of someone like Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whittaker,” trainer Ronnie Shields said of Morell. “He reminds me of those guys in the way he acts.

“I give credit to Benavidez because he’s coming in. He didn’t need it. It shows that you have fighters who want to fight the best. So now he’s getting his chance,” Shields said.

Finally climb up

You have to give Benavidez credit for fighting Morel in his twelfth year as a pro after two solid years of being called up. Benavidez has had a very long career, and surprisingly, it has taken him this long to take on top-level fighters rather than the old, toothless, undersized guys who racked up his entire 29-0 record.

In this era of boxing, there is a formula for fighters to create. Plastic records They brag about themselves for fighting the crap and then trying to get a big cash out date. Is Benavidez one of them?

He fought the same type of people as Edgar Berlanga, and it’s hard not to put ‘The Mexican Monster’ in the same category. As the saying goes, ‘you are what you eat’. That goes well in the pro game Manufactured fighters Hitting tomato cans creates 100% unbeaten records.

Benavidez only fought low-level opponents, and was a pro for about 15 years. How not to fight quality resistance, especially with the big advantage over everyone?

“A lot of the flaws I see in Morel are flaws I can exploit,” Benavidez said. “He says he’s a better fighter than me because he’s Cuban and he trained with Cubans, but that doesn’t mean anything. I grew up fending off monsters.”

Both fighters have put up a lot of good fights during their careers, but Benavidez shouldn’t see it as some kind of honor or battle medal to pin on his chest. All fighters do that. Benavidez even mentions it as a sign of distrust. The flaws Benavidez sees in Morel are in his own game.

he is. Projecting He couldn’t admit his weaknesses in Morel and that he was more vulnerable than he had been when he was struggling to fight the system in 168 Little Fighters. Benavidez has been in the game for too long and is now starting to deteriorate.