Benavidez’s Anger Issues: Benefit Morel?

David Benavidez says he will use “everything” that Cuban David Morell said about him to “fuel” the fire in a light heavyweight title fight on February 1st at PBC on Prime Video PPV in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.

WBA ‘regular’ champion Morel (11-0, 9 KOs) has yet to point out the obvious, stating that Benavidez has been avoiding him since 2022 and that he is “.“Fat Little Chicken.” And the ‘Mexican monster’ he tries to make his fans think he is is not the tough guy. Morel sees Benavidez as a “fake” poser, and a “chicken” one at that.

Loss of control?

“When I get in the ring, I’m trying to do as much damage as possible because if I don’t get you, they’re trying to get me. So, I take that very seriously,” David Benavidez said. Miami Hostel About his fight against David Morrell on February 1st.

“Every fighter I get in the ring, I feel like they’re trying to take food off the plate, and I’m not going to let that happen. David Morrell has been speaking for a while now. He tries to say he won’t. He kept my name in his mouth.

“He thought I would never take the fight. And after we accepted the fight, he tried to pretend that he wasn’t talking and that he didn’t say anything about me. “I’m using everything he said about me to fuel the fight,” Benavidez said of Morel.

It looks like Benavidez will fight Morel with anger and emotion and find himself caught in one of Morel’s big power shots. That’s the problem with Benavidez. He is hot headed and has anger issues.

That’s probably why he worked and pushed Morel when he refused to shake his head at their media practice in Miami on December 17. He could not bear the humiliation of rejecting Morel’s attempt to capture him. So they pushed him away. He’s lucky Morel didn’t brain him with the heavyweight WBA ‘regular’ belt he threw in response as he could have been cut to ribbons had he tagged in the head.

It would be a mistake to fight angrily against a calm fighter like Morel, who has technical skills from years of fitting in a Cuban amateur team.

If Benavidez fights Morel like a wild man, he’s going to get punched. This man has the power of one punch and has competed against the two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist. Julio Cesar La Cruz And Osley Iglesias. These are the fighters that Benavidez has fought in his 12-year professional career and are better than him.

Benavidez, when asked if David Morel is his toughest opponent to date, “I can’t because I haven’t been in the ring with him, but on paper, he seems to have everything.” He has reach, speed, footwork, and power. This does not scare me.”

No one on Benavidez’s resume matches Morell’s size, youth, technical ability or power. This is easily the best fighter to fight, and if he loses, that will prove it on February 1st. Gvozdyk was a good fighter years ago, but when Benavidez fought him, he was 37 years old, four years out of retirement and lost to Artur Beterbiev. If Benavidez had fought the same version of Gvozdyk that beat Adonis Stevenson, he would have lost.

“I have been boxing for 25 years. The most satisfying thing for me is shutting down people who say I can’t win, people who think I’m going to fall, so I’m happy to see a strong fighter that I want to step into the ring with. I know what I can do, and that’s why I took this challenge,” Benavidez said.

Boxing fans have doubted Benavidez’s ability to beat Morel for years. They also questioned his ability to compete in the natural class with his massive cruiserweight frame at 200 or 175.

Benavidez had to fight Morel years ago and moved up to lightweight to face Artur Beterbiev and Dmitri Bivol. What’s more, Benavidez has had the size to compete in that weight class for years, so he had to fight Jay Opetaya at cruiserweight. Instead of getting any of those fights, Benavidez played it safe and dropped to 168, feeding on smaller, bigger fighters and missing out on the fight he wanted against Canelo Alvarez.

Delayed decision

“It’s a challenge that a lot of people refuse to take at 168 and 175. So, the toughest challenges, I’ll accept them. Above all, I want to be a top fighter. So I’m going to keep doing what I have to do,” Benavidez said.

It took Benavidez three years to accept the challenge from Cuban Morel, who had been calling him since 2022. Benavidez didn’t want to fight Morel, but changed his mind after his incredible fight with Radivoje Kalajdic. August 3 in Los Angeles.

What that means is that Benavidez is not as fearless as he says he is because if he had no fear, he would have fought Morel in 2022 instead of choosing to fight these guys.

– Oleksandr Gvozdyk
– Demetrius Andrade
– Caleb Plant
– David Lemieux