David Benavidez got all worked up today during an interview when told that Anthony Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs) said he has the higher ‘one-punch power.’ The comment from Yarde is viewed as accurate by fans, as Benavidez is a volume guy who wins by burying his opponents together with his output.
Benavidez didn’t like hearing from Yarde that his power is superior, but that comment reflects the final belief. Is Yarde simply telling the reality that Benavidez stubbornly refuses to face? His punch died on the border between 168 and 175. ‘The Mexican Monster’ has not come near knocking out either of the 2 fighters he’s faced since moving as much as light heavyweight, and he’s taken a boatload of punishment in those two fights alone.
The Morrell Blueprint
We saw in Benavidez’s last fight against David Morrell that his power wasn’t on the identical level because the Cuban’s. At the tip of the competition, Benavidez’s face looked beaten beyond recognition. In contrast, Morrell wasn’t marked. It’s a signal that his power didn’t carry up from the super middleweight division. Benavidez was hurt twice by Morrell and dropped within the eleventh round.
The type of fighting that ‘The Mexican Monster’ uses, wherein he sets up shop, standing at close range, firing rapid-fire mixtures, puts him prone to getting nailed by the more powerful 175-pounders. What Morrell did to Benavidez might be only a taste of what Yarde will do on Saturday night if nothing changes together with his primitive fighting style. That approach would work if Benavidez possessed true light heavyweight power, but he doesn’t.
Benavidez has benefited from being significantly larger than his opponents at 168 and 175, which is why he has often been labeled a ‘weight bully’ by hardcore fans.
“I’m getting in there to deal with business first, and whatever big fight we are able to make after that, I’m 100% willing to make whatever fight occur,” said David Benavidez to MillCity Boxing, about his focus if he comes out victorious in his title defense against Anthony Yarde this Saturday night in Riyadh.
‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) states that he’s going to knock Yarde out when he defends his WBC light heavyweight title against him this Saturday, November twenty second, on the ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
It’s a fight where there’s a possibility that Benavidez could lose because he has not produced any knockouts since moving as much as the 175-lb division. Furthermore, he’s been hurt in each of his fights within the division against Morrell and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
“Loads of people say they’ll land on me and knock me out. But I feel they should worry about themselves first,” said Benavidez. “They should worry about covering every side of themselves because I can go to the body. I can go to the top. There’s a number of stuff I can do. Anthony Yarde has been stopped twice. So, he should worry about not being stopped a 3rd time.”
Benavidez in Denial Mode
The look on Benavidez’s face when he was talking was that of an indignant person. He looked like he was beginning to boil over from just that straightforward comment from Yarde about him being blessed with superior power. I’m unsure why Benavidez would get so enraged about that. It suggests that he has a warped view of his power and believes that he’s something that he’s not. Why did a harmless comment about power send the “Mexican Monster” into meltdown mode? Is it insecurity, or is he beginning to suspect the fact of his limitations? For Benavidez to snap at such an easy comment suggests that he knows he doesn’t possess power, and it makes him furious that his opponent, Yarde, has noticed it.
Yarde is definitely doing Benavidez a favor by letting him know that he possesses higher power than him, since it’ll give him a probability to regulate his game before Saturday night. The final thing Benavidez must do is fight like a primitive Neanderthal from 400,000 years ago against a fighter with Yarde’s punching power and get his cleaned out. That’s how Benavidez has been fighting throughout his profession. The one reason he’s gotten by is his size advantage, as he appears to be a cruiserweight after rehydrating for fights at 168 and 175.
“I’m prepared for anything he throws my way,” said Benavidez about Yarde. “I’m not eager about whether he can hurt me. I’m getting in there and I’m attempting to stop his a**, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.”
Last Updated on 11/16/2025