By Sean Jones: Promoter Sampson Lewkowicz says WBA ‘common” tremendous middleweight champion David Morrell Jr and David Benavidez have agreed to a combat for October or November. The combat can be televised on Showtime PPV.
WBA ‘common’ 168-lb champion Morrell (9-0, 8 KOs), who has just lately emerged as the brand new shark within the tremendous middleweight division, may damage Benavidez’s long-held plans on getting a big-paying combat in opposition to Canelo Alvarez.
Lewkowicz says he sees Benavidez & Morrell each knocking out Canelo at his level, and he’s not joking. These guys are preventing on a a lot greater stage than Canelo, they usually’d be throughout him if given an opportunity.
If Morrell, 25, defeats Benavidez, we may have the brand new star within the 168-lb division, a man that would be the one which takes the baton away from the fading Canelo Alvarez, both by drive or by grabbing all of the headlines from the boxing public.
That’s what occurs if you get a younger lion prepared to face the perfect whereas the growing old one regularly swerves the opposition wanted to remain on high.
Benavidez might want to up his recreation significantly to have a shot at beating the proficient Cuban Morrell as a result of this man seems to be like he’s preventing on one other stage. In Morrell’s final combat, he blew out an excellent fighter in Yamaguchi Falcao (24-2, 10 KOs) in a primary spherical knockout on April twenty second.
“We’ve got an settlement. That is the plan,” stated Sampson Lewkowicz to Battle Freaks Unite in regards to the David Morrell vs. David Benavidez combat.
“We’re with the identical community. It’s straightforward to get an settlement. I strongly imagine it will likely be extra aggressive than it might be with Canelo Alvarez. I imagine Canelo wouldn’t go previous six rounds with Benavidez, and with Morrell.”
Benavidez (27-0, 23 KOs) regarded drained & torpid, laboring to a more in-depth than anticipated twelve spherical unanimous over Caleb Plant on March twenty fifth.
That combat confirmed that Benavidez wants to maneuver as much as 175 already as a result of he’s outgrown the 168-lb division and is having to put on himself out in coaching camp to artificially keep within the tremendous middleweight division.
Whereas it’s good that Benavidez can nonetheless make the 168-lb restrict by utilizing herculean efforts, it’s doubtlessly dangerous as a result of he’s wanting drained now. It seems to be growing old him to repeatedly drain right down to compete in a weight class that’s not suited to his physique dimension.
The winner of the Morrell vs. Benavidez combat can be in a robust place to exert strain on undisputed tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez to combat or vacate the WBA belt.