Morrell unleashes “Fat Boy” Benavidez: Is this the end of the “Mexican monster”?

David Morrell hit back this week in response to the trash talk David Benavidez has been doing about him since their February 1st fight, calling him a “fat boy” and says he will the “Terminator” when they meet in 49 days.

Morrell can target Benavidez’s limp midsection with his punches and expose that weakness in their headliner at 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 Dmitri Bivol.

Benavidez is targeting the winner of that fight because he can earn untold riches by fighting whoever emerges. However, if Morrell destroys Benavidez, it will be the end of his dreams.

Monster’s appetite

Benavidez, 27, did look stocky around the waist, and you could see his stomach during the promotional shoot with Morrell, in which both guys had their shirts off. ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez didn’t look like a professional athlete with the guts he had.

He is now work feverishlyis trying to get the weight off in training, and is talking boldly, almost angrily, this week about what he’ll do to Morrell. If he had discipline, he wouldn’t have put on the weight in the first place.

In a video this week, Benavidez said, “I’m going to knock this mother **** out.” Benavidez has become accustomed 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 sunk in that he can no longer do what he used to do. He can’t use his size to dominate the opposition, and he’s finally facing quality guys instead of the bland opposition his management has fed him throughout his 11-year career.

Benavidez’s best wins:

– Oleksandr Gvozdyk: 37 and coming off 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, obviously ate well. Still, he will have to control himself as he may be forced to move up to cruiserweight or heavyweight soon.

It had only been five months since his last fight on June 15, but Benavidez looked completely out of shape. It suggests he doesn’t let life pass him by between fights like heavyweight Tyson Fury does.

“F*** you, fat boy. I’m the terminator,” David Morrell told Fighthype, in response to the knockout predictions and rubbish from WBC interim light heavyweight champion David Benavidez ahead of their February 1 showdown in 49 days.

WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) says he prefers to show “respect” to his opponents, but when they come of age like Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs), he won’t show him anything unlike the back of his hand. Morrell says that if they were in Cuba, a person like Benavidez would get his “a**” kicked.