Kalvan Henderson is another of David Morrell’s knockout victims to suspect that something was up in his fight. He came out of the woodwork to complain about his suspicions about him and suspect that something was fishy with the absence of drug tests for his fight in 2022.
Henderson (19-2-1, 13 KOs) was knocked out in the fourth round by Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on June 4, 2022, at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said there were no drug tests for the fight, and he felt something suspicious was going on. Although he has no proof and guessing, he thinks that something is going on.
Morrell looked thin in the fight and not like someone using PEDs, but Henderson is still suspicious. Another of Morrell’s knockout victims, Sena Agbeko, recently spoke about her suspicions about him due to a lack of drug tests. Even though he didn’t even have proof, he still talked.
Henderson thinks interim WBC lightweight champion David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) will defeat WBA “regular” champion Morrell in their fight on February 1 because he says he’s bigger than him and has better stamina. They are the same size, but that’s okay.
“Superman” Morrell? Henderson has doubts
“I went to Morrell’s second home in Minnesota. Nobody else wanted to fight. I had a big game plan. I felt like the fight was stopped early. Was the guy (Morrell) winning the fight? Yeah, but we had a game plan for the deeper rounds,” Kalvin Henderson said Fighthypestill bitter about his fourth TKO loss to David Morrell two years ago on June 4, 2022.
“I’m taking him with body shots, and I’m listening to what those body shots do to him. I knew he was going to slow down eventually. This fight had to be drug tested, and we both signed papers to be drug tested We get to the fight in the dressing room, and the WBA forgets to order drug tests.
“So, this is another thing. We’re not just fighting politics. We’re fighting a potentially ugly fight in Morrell… After the fight, there was still no drug test. There’s something fishy. Superman only exists in comic books,” Henderson said when asked if there is anything “fishy” about David Morrell.
There was nothing “Superman” about Morrell scoring a fourth-round KO of Kalvin Henderson. He backed him up against the ropes and hit him with several hard punches; the referee saw that Henderson was taking some nasty shots and stopped them.
He would have been hurt if he had allowed Morrell to continue clubbing Henderson. There was too much time in the round for the referee to let the fight continue.
“These guys have a lot of money behind them, a lot of money in things out of their control. So of course they’re going to be put in the best possible position,” Henderson said. “This guy (Morrell) was bigger than me in the ring on fight night. Fighters know. Before the weigh-in, he was drinking Gatorade before getting on the scale. Something is fishy.”
It’s a big reach on Henderson’s part to conclude from Morrell drinking Gatorade at the weigh-in that he was using PEDs. That’s a strange assumption on his part. Drink Gatorade; therefore, it is ugly. That doesn’t make sense, but if you’re trying to understand why Morrell is beating you, you have to find something instead of accepting that he wasn’t good enough.
Benavidez beats Morrell?
“I think Benavidez will beat Morrell on sheer size and stamina. Benavidez has been throwing hard punches for 15 straight rounds. So, I think his relentless pressure and non-stop (punches) are going to make the difference in this fight. I don’t think that Benavidez’s power carries over to 175,” Henderson said.
Kalvin is a little confused. Benavidez is not bigger than Morrell, and his stamina at 175 is not better than his at 175. We saw that in Benavidez’s last fight at 175 when he gassed out after six rounds against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Morrell has a four-inch longer reach than Benavidez, harder punches, and has better hand speed and technical ability. Don’t expect Henderson to know the details between Morrell and Benavidez because he’s a fighter and doesn’t analyze fights like writers.
“At 168, he was huge. Some people called him ‘bully weight,’ but at 175, it’s more of a natural weight class for him. So, I think you’ll see longer fights for Benavidez and Morrell, maybe even in that weight class because of bigger guys,” Henderson said.
Things will be very different for Benavidez at 175 compared to his bully days at 168, where he routinely enjoyed a massive size advantage over his mix of old age, weakness and flawed opposition that his promoters l They had met for 28 of their first 29 career fights.
You can’t blame “The Mexican Monster” Benavidez for choosing to stay at 168 for so long because it allowed him to have a career that otherwise wouldn’t be there if he had fought where he should have been at 175 since the turn. pro in 2013.
If Benavidez had fought at light heavyweight, he probably would have been beaten several times by now. He would be just one of the pack, with other contenders such as Joshua Buatsi, Willy Hutchinson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
