Comments Thread For: David Morrell Warns David Benavidez: After My Fight, I'm Gonna Make You My *****

[dukesville]

Make this fight Benavidez vs Morrel!

[Oracle01]

Are Morrells handlers really dumb enough to put him against Benavidez in his 7th pro fight?

[garfios]

I don't like Perro, sooner or later he gets destroyed. Joe Joyce stopped him pretty bad in Rio. At least he's better than his younger brother who is still in Cuba. Bruzon is a tough guy with limited skills set. I don't know Perez and Scull. Gomez might become better than his dad. David Morrell is like 50 levels above these guys. Even Gomez as athletically gifted as he is Morrell is a very special one.

I get it, my point is they're all younger than they predecessors, which works on their favor.

[garfios]

Are Morrells handlers really dumb enough to put him against Benavidez in his 7th pro fight?

Yes, you can say anything you want about a Cuban boxer, one thing you can't say, is that they avoiding a certain boxer, or hiding behind a belt.

[garfios]

Carlos Molina was no easy fight for him and I think edged him out. It was cool seeing Molina flip the table on Lara.

That was a hugging fest, not a pleasent or entertaining event.

[PBR Streetgang]

I like it. Morrell wants that smoke. He doesn't have many pro fights but he's fought some pretty decent competition and has a stellar amateur resume.

He has the skills but he hasn't really faced a dangerous puncher yet in the pro ranks so that chin hasn't been checked proper. Regardless, I'd love to see the fight and I think it would be entertaining especially with the bad blood.

[TreyShaw]

And how do they end it up? Like mantequilla, ray leonard, olivares, duran, hearns. 99% of boxers ends bad. So what's your point?

My point is most Cubans have decent pro careers and the minute they step up they fail. Cubans always lose the big ones.

Napoles was one of my favs but he also spent most of his pro career in Mexico he acknowledged he's from the Mexican school of boxing and yet he's arguably the not accomplished Cuban pro ever.

[Get em up]

Weren't WBC and WBO proposing to unify "interim" titles @ 168?

Maybe.... I'm not positive who was trying to fight and unify the secondary titles though and why it fell through

[Oracle01]

I think Morrell is the best talent to come from Cuba.
Rigo was small and old, and while a phenomenal athlete his drawbacks were his lack of strength and punch resistance. Gamboa was highly untechnical for Cuban standards and very chinny. The best overall package has been Lara but Lara has been a very shy puncher at times and he doesn't have a one punch ko power.

Morrell on the other hand is an amazing talent, amazing technique, very strong physically, quick, power puncher, very mean and most importantly for a Cuban fighter, young.

Benavidez's best punch on offense is his jab and his best counter punch is his left hook and against a southpaw these two punches could be easily taken away and Benavidez has already fought a southpaw, check the tapes and let me know how good his jab was against a lefty.

He seems to load up and telegraph his punches a lot though and someone like Benavidez would pick him off with his sharper faster, straight punches. He looks good but so did Berlanga until he fought a couple of solid veterans. We still don't how he can handle adversity at all. It would be very ****** and unnecessary to match him with Benavidez in his 7th fight, it could literally end his career if he got beat down badly.

[dukesville]

That was a hugging fest, not a pleasent or entertaining event.

True....add on slaps and other shinanigans. But that's what I mean by Molina turning the table on Lara.