Keyshawn Davis was impressed with what he saw from David Morrell in his performance against David Benavidez on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV earlier this month.
He felt that the sunshine heavyweight Morrell (11-1, 9 KOs) could have made it more interesting if he had more experience and made just a few strategic changes to his game. Keyshawn says Morrell shouldn’t have backed up so often against the ropes and would have been higher off circling.
Experience Gap
He also felt that he must have gone on the attack against Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) starting within the fifth or sixth as an alternative of waiting until the last two rounds. Waiting that long put Morrell in an not possible situation where he needed a knockout, and he had the unsuitable opponent for him to do this.
Benavidez has a head like a Water Buffalo, and he can take massive shots that will KO a standard human. Obviously, if Benavidez keeps eating the form of shots that he took against Morrell, he’s going to be leaving the game with just just a few marbles rolling around in his head. The person has no defense in any respect, and he’s asking for trouble against Artur Beterbiev. When Artur gets done with Benavidez, there won’t be enough left for Morrell to trouble with.
“It was a loss for Morrell on his record. It really wasn’t no loss. I watched it. I’m watching the subsequent David Morrell fight, and that was the primary fight I ever watched of David Morrell,” said Keyshawn Davis to Fight Hub TV about Morrell’s fight against David Benavidez on February 1st.
“He sold himself great. David Morrell looked great. I felt if he had more experience, it probably would have been a greater fight. David Benavidez has all of the experience on the earth, and I’m a fan of David. I just felt that David Morrell was a bit of too inexperienced, and lots of it showed obviously.
“To begin with, he began kicking into that second gear too late. At the top of the fight, he began standing there and fighting David Benavidez. He finally got his confidence to fight him, and that was a bit of too late. We were all saying within the sixth round, fifth round, ‘Kick it in. Fight this man. Stop moving a lot.”
Late Surge
Morrell must have gone after Benavidez earlier within the fight because when he stopped showing him respect, he was hurting him together with his greater punches. He showed ultimately that he was higher than Benavidez. It was like watching a light-hitting volume puncher getting beaten by a stronger guy.
Morrell’s power was on one other level, and he was the better-conditioned fighter ultimately. Benavidez had used up all his gas in the primary eight rounds and had nothing left to fend Morrell off. He looked like a drained cruiserweight. Benavidez revealed that he’d rehydrated to 196, which is a 22-lb water gain from the 174 lbs he’d weighed in at.
“‘Bro, use your jab. Move in a circle. All you bought to do is keep circling him. Why do you retain backing up straight to the ropes?’ Those things right there. It’s the inexperience. I feel like possibly years down the road, possibly they’ll rematch that. I do know David Morrell goes to be a implausible fighter that individuals are going to proceed to look at. He’s exciting. So possibly years down the road, they’ll run that back.”
It was a mistake on Morrell’s part to back as much as the ropes, shelling up and allowing Benavidez to tee off on him. When he moved around, he neutralized offense well. Within the later rounds, when Morrell finally went after Benavidez, he was outpunching him and was making him look bad in the identical way Oleksandr Gvozdyk did.
“I can see why Canelo doesn’t wish to fight him,” said Keyshawn about Benavidez.
It doesn’t appear to be Canelo Alvarez will ever fight Benavidez unless Turki Al-Sheikh offers him insane money, but I don’t think that’s going to occur. There’s other fights that Canelo can fight and still earn cash. He doesn’t need the massive dough that Turki would offer him to fight Benavidez.
Last Updated on 02/10/2025
