David Morrell hit back this week in response to the trash talk that David Benavidez has made about him since their February 1st fight, labeling him a “fat boy” and saying that he will be the “Terminator” when they meet in 49 days.
Morrell can target Benavidez’s flabby midsection with his punches and expose that weakness in his headlining 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 22 rematch between undisputed lightweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry 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’s the end of his dreams.
The appetite of the monster
Benavidez, 27, looked thick around the midsection, and his belly could be seen during the face-to-face promotional shoot with Morrell, in which both men were shirtless. “The Mexican Monster” Benavidez didn’t look like a professional athlete with the guts he was sporting.
It is now working feverishlytrying to get the weight in training, and speaking boldly, almost angrily, this week about what he will do to Morrell. If he had discipline, he wouldn’t put weight in the first place.
In a video this week, Benavidez said, “I’m going to get this mother**** out.” Benavidez has gotten used to being the bully against older, smaller and weaker opposition while fighting at super-middleweights.
Now that Benavidez has moved up to 175, it’s not yet established that he can no longer do what he did before. He can’t use his size to dominate the opposition, and is finally facing quality guys instead of the soft opposition his management had fed him throughout his 11-year career.
Benavidez’s best wins:
– Oleksandr Gvozdyk: 37 years old and coming out of a 4-year retirement
– Anthony Dirrell: 38 years old
-David Lemieux
– Demetrius Andrade: 35 years old
– Caleb Plant: After his KO loss to Canelo. Do I need more?
Interim WBC 175 lb champion Benavidez obviously ate well. However, he will have to control himself because he could be forced to move to cruiserweight or heavyweight soon.
It was only five months since his last fight on June 15, but Benavidez looked completely out of shape. That suggests he’s not living life between fights and letting himself go like heavyweight Tyson Fury.
“F*** you, fat boy. I’m the terminator,” David Morrell told Fighthype, reacting to knockout predictions and trash talk from interim WBC lightweight champion David Benavidez ahead of their showdown on February 1 in 49 days.
Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs), the “regular” WBA lightweight champion, says he prefers to show “respect” for his opponents, but when they feel in the mouth like Benavidez (29-0, 24 KO), will show them. nothing but the back of his hand. Morrell claims that if they were in Cuba, a person like Benavidez would get his “a**” kicked.
