Calvan Henderson is another of David Morrell’s knockout victims who has doubts about their fight. He came out of the woodwork to complain about his misgivings about him and suspect something was fishy with the absence of drug tests for their 2022 fight.
Henderson (19-2-1, 13 KOs) was knocked out in the fourth round by Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on June 4, 2022 at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said there was no drug testing for the fight and he felt something fishy was going on. Although he has no evidence and is speculating, he thinks something is going on.
Morrell looked skinny in the fight and not like someone on PEDs, but Henderson remains suspicious. Another of Morrell’s knockout victims, Sena Agbeko, recently spoke out about her suspicions about him due to his lack of drug testing. Even though he has no proof either, he still talks.
Henderson thinks interim WBC light heavyweight champion David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) will beat WBA ‘regular’ champion Morel in their February 1 fight because he says he’s bigger than him and has better stamina. They are the same size, but good.
“Superman” Morel? Henderson has his doubts
“I went to Morrell’s second home in Minnesota. No one else wanted to fight him. I had a great game plan. I felt the fight was stopped early. Did the guy (Morell) win the fight? “Yeah, but we had a game plan for the deeper rounds,” Calvin Henderson said Fighthippestill bitter about his fourth-round TKO loss to David Morrell two years ago on June 4, 2022.
“I catch him with body shots, and I listen to what those body shots do to him.” I knew it would slow down eventually. That fight was supposed to be drug tested and we both signed the papers to be drug tested. We get into a fight in the locker room, and the VBA forgets to order drug tests.
“So that’s another thing. We are not only fighting politics. We’re fighting a potentially dirty fighter in Morel… After the fight, there was still no drug test. There is something suspicious. Superman only exists in the comics,” Henderson said when asked if there was anything ‘fishy’ about David Morrell.
There was nothing superman about Morrell’s fourth-round knockout of Calvin Henderson. He backed him up against the ropes and hammered him with a few hard blows; the referee saw that Henderson was taking some bad shots and stopped them.
He would have been hurt if he had allowed Morel to continue beating Henderson. There was too much time left in the round for the referee to allow the fight to continue.
“These guys have a lot of money behind them, a lot of money in things that are out of their control. So of course they’re going to be put in the best possible position,” Henderson said. “This guy (Morell) was bigger than me in the ring the night of the fight. Fighters know. Before the weigh-in, he drank Gatorade before stepping on the scale. Something is suspicious.”
It’s a stretch on Henderson’s part to infer from Morel drinking Gatorade at the weigh-in that he was using PEDs. That’s a wild guess on his part. He drinks Gatorade; therefore, he is dirty. It doesn’t make sense, but if you’re trying to understand why Morel beat you, you need to find something rather than accept that you weren’t good enough.
Benavidez to beat Morel?
“I think Benavidez will beat Morel on sheer size and stamina. Benavidez lands hard punches for 15 rounds in a row. So I think his relentless pressure and non-stop (punching) will make the difference in this fight. “I don’t think Benavidez’s power will carry over to 175,” Henderson said.
Calvin is a little confused. Benavidez is no bigger than Morel, and his stamina at 175 is no better than his stamina at 168. We saw that in Benavidez’s last fight at 175 when he ran out of gas after six rounds against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Morel has a four-inch longer reach than Benavidez, punches harder and has better hand speed and technical ability. You wouldn’t expect Henderson to know the details between Morel and Benavidez because he’s a fighter and doesn’t analyze fights like the writers do.
“At 168, he was huge. Some people have called him a ‘thug’, but at 175, that’s more of a natural weight for him. So I think you’re going to see longer fights for Benavidez and Morel, maybe in that weight class because of the bigger guys,” Henderson said.
Things will be a lot different for Benavidez at 175 than his bully days at 168, where he routinely enjoyed a huge advantage over his mix of old, weak and bad opposition that promoters had lined him up against for 28 of his first 29 career struggles.
You can’t blame ‘Mexican Monster’ Benavidez for choosing to stay at 168 for so long as it allowed him to carve out a career that otherwise wouldn’t have been there had he fought where he should have been at 175 since the move. pro in 2013
If Benavidez was fighting at featherweight, he probably would have been beaten many times by now. He would be just one of the pack, along with other contenders such as Joshua Buatsi, Willie Hutchinson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
