David Morell this week responded to the trash David Benavidez has been running on him since their February 1st fight, calling him “fat boy” and saying that he would be “the terminator” when they meet in 49 days.
Morrell could target Benavides’ flabby midsection with his punches and expose that weakness in their PBC headliner at Prime Video PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
If Benavidez loses this fight, he can say goodbye to a huge mega-million payday forever against the winner of the Feb. 22 rematch between undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Benavides is targeting the winner of that fight because he can make a fortune fighting anyone who shows up. However, if Morel destroys Benavidez, that’s the end of his dreams.
Monster’s Appetite
Benavidez, 27, looked beefy around the midsection, and you could see his stomach during the promotional showdown with Morel, in which both men stripped to their shirts. ‘Mexican Monster’ Benavidez looked nothing like a professional athlete with his pain.
He is now working feverishlytrying to lose weight in training, and bravely, almost angrily, talks this week about what he’s going to do to Morel. If he had discipline, he wouldn’t stress at all.
In a the video this week, Benavidez said, “I’m going to knock this mother **** out.” Benavidez has gotten used to being the bully against older, smaller and weaker opposition while fighting at super middleweight.
Now that Benavidez has moved up to 175, it still hasn’t become clear that he can no longer do what he used to do. He can’t use his size to dominate the opposition, and he’s finally facing quality guys instead of the bland opposition his management has fed him throughout his 11-year career.
Benavides’ best wins:
– Oleksandr Gvozdik: 37 years old and 4 years into retirement
– Anthony Dirrell: 38
– David Lemieux
– Dimitrije Andrade: 35
– Caleb Plant: After a knockout loss to Canelo. Need I say more?
Interim WBC 175-pound champion Benavidez has clearly been eating well. He’ll have to control himself, though, as he could soon be forced to move up to cruiserweight or heavyweight.
It had only been five months since his last fight on June 15, but Benavidez looked completely out of shape. It suggests that he doesn’t live a life between fights and indulgences like heavyweight Tyson Fury does.
“Fuck you, fat boy.” I’m a terminator,” David Morrell told Fighthippe, responding to WBC Interim Light Heavyweight Champion David Benavidez’s knockout and stupidity predictions ahead of their February 1 showdown in 49 days.
WBA ‘regular’ welterweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) says he prefers to show “respect” to his opponents, but when they get as angry as Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs), he’ll show him nothing but the back of his hand . Morrell states that if they were in Cuba, a person like Benavidez would get “ass.”
