DAVID Benavidez and David Morrell will face off at light-heavyweight on February 1 within the T-Cell Enviornment, Las Vegas. Given their respective approaches to the damage sport, the primary occasion guarantees to be an absolute barnburner that can certainly catch fireplace and switch right into a basic.
The PBC promotional materials sums it up completely: “Interim WBC Mild Heavyweight Champion David “El Monstro” Benavídez and WBA Mild Heavyweight Champion David Morrell Jr. will meet in a battle of unbeatens that pits two of the game’s most enjoyable fighters towards one another within the primes of their careers.”
Whereas each maintain gaudy belts in a division that has a transparent primary and quantity two (or 1.5 in Bivol’s case), these two are punching for third place and the possibility to combat both Beterbiev or the winner of an undisputed rematch ought to it happen subsequent.
Given his scintillating shows at super-middleweight, Morrell had grow to be Mr Pleasure, however he regarded a bit of laboured in his final outing, defeating Radivoje Kalajdzic on factors in his 175-pound debut. To his credit score, ‘Sizzling Rod’ is a strong world-level foe, and Morrell boxed for almost all of the competition with the Los Angeles solar in his eyes.
Benavidez, in the meantime, has already overwhelmed Plant, Andrade and Gvozdyk. If he now scalps Morrell and nonetheless doesn’t handle to nail down a Canelo combat, then he’ll start to surprise precisely what he has to do to land the most important prize in boxing. Benavidez is the extra seasoned of the 2 and if Morrell comes out all weapons blazing early on, issues might get a bit of dicey for the Cuban down the stretch.
The whole card shall be broadcast on Prime Video pay-per-view and features a strong undercard. Now campaigning as the complete WBC featherweight champion, Brandon Figueroa will search to reverse a loss to Stephen Fulton after they interact in a high-stakes rematch.
Isaac Cruz will look to bounce again from his loss by the hands of Jose Valenzuela by taking over twice-beaten Mexican puncher Angel Fierro. Jesus Ramos continues his rebuild after a shock defeat to Erickson Lubin by taking over former unified champion Jeison Rosario, who was final seen boxing Jarrett Hurd to a draw on Professional Field TV.
