Many followers are starting to consider that interim WBC mild heavyweight champion David Benavidez made a mistake by selecting to combat “common” WBA champion David Morrell at this early stage of his profession, earlier than ‘get the cash combat he was on the lookout for.
Morrell has the ability, pace and technical expertise to take out Benavidez and ship him into the mud, the place he could by no means return. The Cuban expertise is a fighter many consider to be the inheritor obvious to the crown at 175, and Benavidez picked the unsuitable man to combat his technique to a large, life-changing payday.
Beterbiev’s payday
If David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KO) loses this combat in opposition to Morrell, he’ll have the ability to say goodbye to $10 million + wage he can combat undisputed mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev in 2025. That mega-money combat would go to Morrell, who would have the final snigger. Benavidez must return to the highest, and there’s no assure he can.
Subsequent time, he’ll need to beat a prime younger contender to win an interim title at 175. It will not be the simple state of affairs he had this time, the place Benavidez was combating the 37-year-old. Alexander Gvozdyk for the WBC interim belt to line up in pole place to combat for the undisputed championship in opposition to the winner Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol 2.
The World Boxing Council acquired widespread criticism for sanctioning a combat between Benavidez and Gvozdyk for his or her interim title at 175. It was Benavidez’s first combat at mild heavyweight, and he was combating a person who had simply come out of a four-year retirement.
In all honesty, Benavidez ought to have fought his technique to combat for the WBC interim 175-pound title, and his opponent ought to have been a prime contender, like Joshua Buatsi.
Yesterday’s combat throughout media coaching, the place Morrell nearly hit Benavidez together with his WBA belt, is attracting consideration. It was an indication of what was in retailer for him when he entered with Morrell and was knocked out of their combat on February 1, reside on PBC on Main video PPV on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
A 50-50 combat
That is by far one of the best fighter Benavidez can have fought in his 11-year profession, and it is the one one the place he faces somebody with a 50-50 beating likelihood. Thus far, Benavidez has offered presents by way of opponents with positive wins the place he had no concern of shedding.
He had issues tilted in his favor from day one, combating at a weight class beneath his gigantic light-heavy body and combating weak and middling opposition.
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KO) did not want to enter this dangerous combat in opposition to the Cuban expertise Morrell (11-0, 9 KO), who is healthier than him in each space. “The Mexican Monster” most likely nonetheless would have been chosen to combat the winner of the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol 2 rematch with out taking that dangerous combat in opposition to Morrell.
The bravado that led Benavidez to take this gamble was created by his victories over smaller, older and hapless fighters at 168. His tremendous middleweight victories
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