Former HBO commentator Jim Lampley believes former two-time super middleweight champion David Benavidez punches as hard as former heavyweight champions Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson. Any person cut this man off.
Lampley feels Benavidez hits as hard as them and thinks he’ll be the most important economic entity if he moves as much as heavyweight and becomes a successful contender. I feel Lampley is dreaming about Benavidez having heavyweight power.
12 Rounds to KO Plant? Not Exactly a Tyson Impression
Considering that Benavidez needed to go 12 rounds to knockout Caleb Plant, I’d say that Lampley is dreaming if he believes he’s got Lewis or Mike Tyson-like punching power.
Those guys would have destroyed Plant with a single punch if there have been a working time machine that would take Caleb back to the Nineties.
Benavidez scores his knockouts along with his high volume and combination punching. He’s not a one-punch style of guy like Lewis, Tyson, Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder.
Canelo vs. Benavidez: Power vs. Pretty Boy?
“Most those that follow boxing don’t think Canelo is risking anything against Jaime Munguia because they don’t consider Munguia is expert enough to seek out him often enough to get that one,” said Jim Lampley to Fight Hub TV.
“They do consider Benavidez is expert enough to seek out him, and if Benavidez were in a position to go within the ring with Canelo and find him that chin won’t matter because Benavidez has epic power,” said Lampley.
I hate to drizzle on Lampley’s vision, but Benavidez could be the weaker puncher of the 2 if he fought the smaller 5’8″ Canelo. Benavidez wasn’t blessed with power the way in which Canelo was, and it’s too late now for him to suddenly develop it.
Benavidez is moving as much as light heavyweight next in June against former WBC champ Oleksandr Gvozdyk. If he has the sort of power that Lampley says he does, he shouldn’t have any problems knocking out Gvozdyk.
“He has the sort of power where you fall asleep at night pondering, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m undecided where I’ve seen that before.’ He detonated Demetrius Andrade and blew him up. I assumed Andrade, due to his craft, was roughly knockout-proof,” said Lampley.
“So, I walked out of the world that night pondering, ‘Where have I seen the sort of explosive power that David Benavidez just showed me?’ Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson. Those are the sorts of fighters that demonstrated that sort of power.”
The way in which that Lampley raves about Benavidez’s power is like getting worked up because he can put out a candle.
Heavyweight Dreams: More Like Delusions
“By the way in which, I feel there’s a powerful likelihood that Benavidez will eventually in his profession that he’ll fight at heavyweight and turn out to be the primary serious and great heavyweight contender amongst Mexican American,” said Lampley.
“The primary Mexican American serious heavyweight contender shall be the most important entity in boxing, and that possibility presents itself for Benavidez if he steers his profession the precise way,” said Lampley.
I feel Lampley must take a protracted vacation to clear his head. If Benavidez suddenly starts knocking out guys with single shots like Lewis and Tyson did during their prime, comparing him to them is bizarre.
