Per Manny Delgado: David Benavidez (30-0, 24 CO’s) completely surpassed David Morrell (11-1.9 COs) in an almost one-sided apart on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, which proves that he is the best of the are two David’s.
It is not to take something away from Morrell who regularly looked like he was ready to take away, but held with an impressive chin and was traced back with his own combinations and sometimes pushed the pace.
The majority of fans’ predictions were that this battle would end in a knockout in favor of benavidez. Very few saw the possibility that Morrell would take the distance despite his co-power with one punch. This can easily be attributed to Morrell who simply does not have as many fans, but he did survive. He even popped up the pace in the last two rounds, in which he knocked down Benavidez in the 11th round. Certainly, it was a flash knockdown, but one that shocked “the Mexican monster”.
However, this round advantage was quickly eradicated with a point deduction when Morrell Benavidez hit after the clock. It was a heated exchange where a fired benavidez downloaded a relentless, long combination. Morrell, with cloudy judgment, only responds in Natura out of anger and frustration, but he did it too late. It was perhaps on Saturday night of El Monstruo, but Morrell proved to have a great potential, and it was simply because of a lack of experience that the fight was constantly as one -sided as it was.
Benavidez’s relentless pressure
Benavidez may not be an elite fighter like Artur Betterbiev or Dmitri Biscvol, but his high level, relentless pressure was too much for the inexperienced Cuban to handle. Morrell would practically allow benavidez to download complete combinations, and that’s where Benavidez shines, while his engine is getting more and more coming up, the more he likes.
Morrell ate some good shots in the process before firing back at the end of Benavidez’s combinations with his own. Benavidez went so far as to pull off his guard repeatedly and find a house to land his loaded left brackets.
Sometimes Morrell would resist even between some of Benavidez’s bumps, but it was not enough to prevent Benavidez from continuing to exert his forward pressure.
Morrell’s potential
Morrell is a decent counter-puncher. As a vegetable hanger who does not benefit one of the fighter and simply enjoys a good fight, it was frustrating not to see him to use his anti -capacity to interrupt the flow of benavidez’s combinations. He showed signs that he could do this by occasionally, but not regularly enough.
He was far too intimidated by the output and combinations of benavidez to do so, and in the process became rifle-shy. Admittedly, this is easier said than done. His lack of experience, with only 11 professional battles before benavidez, could you say that it was a contributing factor. Morrell, after never fighting anyone with Benavidez’s style, was another contributing factor.
If the 11th and 12th rounds were a sign of the potential battle we could have had instead, you could effectively say that it would have been a very different struggle that would have been either much closer to the scorecards or A clear victory for Morrell. This means that Morrell established his presence as he did as opposed to his passive defense approach with occasional burst.
The final scorecards read 115-111, 115-111 and 118-108 in favor of Banavidez through unanimous decision. He successfully retained his WBC -Tuss -entire belt and won the WBA title. Morrell used what many fighting fans considered a bad game plan. Nevertheless, it was an extremely entertaining battle that met the hype. Morrell undoubtedly earned himself many new fans last night and proved that, despite his lack of experience, he is a name to look at.