David Morrell bit back this week in reaction to the trash talk David Benavidez has been doing about him since their February 1st fight, labeling him a “Fat boy” and saying he will be the “Terminator” when they meet in 49 days.
Morrell may target Benavidez’s flabby midsection with his punches and expose that weakness in their headliner on PBC on Prime Video PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
If Benavidez loses this fight, he can say goodbye forever to the massive mega-million payday against the winner of the February 22nd rematch between undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Benavidez targets the winner of that fight because he can earn untold riches by fighting whoever emerges. However, if Morrell destroys Benavidez, that’s the end of his dreams.
Monster’s Appetite
Benavidez, 27, did look chunky around the midsection, and you could see his belly during the promo shoot face-off with Morrell, in which both guys had their shirts off. ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez didn’t resemble a professional athlete with the gut he was sporting.
He’s now working feverishly, trying to take the weight off in training, and talking boldly, almost angrily, this week about what he will do to Morrell. If he had discipline, he wouldn’t put the weight on in the first place.
In a 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 set in that he can no longer do what he did before. He can’t use his size to dominate the opposition, and he’s finally facing quality guys instead of the soft opposition his management had been feeding him throughout his entire 11-year career.
Benavidez’s best wins:
– Oleksandr Gvozdyk: 37 and coming off of a 4-year retirement
– Anthony Dirrell: 38
– David Lemieux
– Demetrius Andrade: 35
– Caleb Plant: After his knockout loss to Canelo. Need I say more?
The WBC interim 175-lb champion Benavidez has obviously been eating good. Still, he’s going to have to control himself because he could be forced to move up to cruiserweight or heavyweight soon.
It had only been five months since his last fight on June 15h, but Benavidez looked completely out of shape. That suggests he’s not living the life between fights and letting himself go like heavyweight Tyson Fury does.
“F*** you, fat boy. I’m the terminator,” said David Morrell to Fighthype, reacting to the knockout predictions and trash talk from WBC interim light heavyweight champion David Benavidez ahead of their February 1st showdown in 49 days.
WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) says he prefers to show “respect” for his opponents, but when they get mouthy like Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) has, 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 his “a**” kicked.
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