Trainer Jose Benavides Sr. says his son, David Benavides, will take David Morrell to deep water and drown him out in their fight in 29 days on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV in Las Vegas.
Jose Sr. believes Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) can wear down WBA light heavyweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) with body shots and pressure.
Benavides’ plan
“We don’t know. Everybody’s styles are different,” Jose Benavides Sr. said ISM Sports Media when asked if David Morrell is a more difficult opponent for David Benavides than Caleb Plant and Demetrius Andrade.
“David Morrell is a great fighter, a very decorated amateur fighter, two-time world champion at 168 and 175. He’s left-handed. We don’t know (if Morel is stronger than Plant and Andrade), but from now on we train as if he is the best fighter in our career. We have to think that.
“We cannot underestimate David Morrell.” We don’t know how big his heart is. We’ll take him into deep water and see if he can swim. If not, he will drown. The plan is not just to win the fight. Look spectacular,” Benavidez Sr. said.
Morel is much bigger, stronger and younger than Plant and Andrade. So for Jose Sr. to count on Benavidez to do to him what he did against those fighters, he could be in for a big disappointment on February 1st.
“It’s the thing with all these fighters moving around. They don’t want to get hit. So they are very careful. “They use their legs a lot,” Jose Sr. said. “I hope David Morrell comes to fight and show people he’s the best at 175 and it ends with a knockout.”
Morrell doesn’t move much. When he moves, he stands in front of his opponents. He does not move around the ring, but from side to side with his upper body. Morel will be there for Benavides to exchange blows.
Morrell’s punches are much harder than the guys the Mexican Monster has fought throughout his career and it may not last long once the Cuban starts hitting him.
Targeting the body
“If he’s careful, uses his feet and moves around, it’s going to take us a little bit of time because when you have a fighter that’s moving around, it makes him a little bit difficult,” Jose Sr. said. “I’m sure David (Benavidez) is going to take advantage of that and start breaking that body and start hurting him.”
The punches that Morel hit his last opponent, Radivoj Kalajdzic, on August 3rd wounded Benavidez by knockout or seriously injured him to the point where he was defenseless in the continuation of the barrage. Morel injured Radivoj multiple times in their fight at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
“Hopefully we can get him out of there before the ninth or 10th round,” Benavides Sr. said.
