David Morrell says the ‘Mexican Monster’ persona that David Benavidez is just a false identity and that he’s really “A fat little chicken.” WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) is promising to “knock out” Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) to expose him as an imposter to the light of day.
Morrell vs. Benavidez will be headlining in a 12-round fight in 15 days on February 1st at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be shown live on PBC on Prime Video PPV. Benavidez will have his WBC interim 175-lb belt on the line that he recently captured against Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15th last year.
Monster Faked?
This fight will show whether Benavidez is as good as he and his followers think he is or if he’s fools gold, who has had naive fans tricked all along. They want Benavidez to replace Canelo Alvarez so bad they’re not looking at him with eyes open to see that he’s been fighting ham & eggers his whole career. Fans want Benavidez to be their new hero so badly that they’re unwilling to recognize the blemishes that are there and that he’s not the genuine article.
“You’re the King? I’m coming for you. Get out of here,” said David Morrell to PPV.com, talking about David Benavidez, who has been putting on airs like he’s the top dog in the 175-lb division yet has no credible wins and looked atrocious in his debut at light heavyweight.
“I got everything. Fast, power, defense, attack, legs that move. I’ve got everything. I don’t know why people say he’s ‘The Monster.’ Boom. He’s going down 100%. I promise you, I’ll knock him out,” said Morrell.
“The ‘Mexican Monster,’ everything is fake. He’s what we call in Cuba, ‘A little chicken.’ Benavidez is not the same as me,” said Morrell. “In Cuba, we’d take his lunch money. A fat kid like that. I don’t want to say I’m a little poor kid, but I mean, man, it’s different. That hunger that Cubans have. I dare say that few have it. I waited for this fight for a long time. Right now, it’s more serious.”
Fans who were mentally awake saw from watching Benavidez’s last fight against 37-year-old Oleksandr Gvozdyk that he wasn’t the fighter they thought he was. He labored in that fight, getting pummeled in the second half.
Benavidez was hurt in the 12th, and fortunate that it didn’t happen earlier in the round because Gvozdyk was lighting him up like a candle. That was hard to watch.
Benavidez’s excuses, since blaming his terrible performance on hand injuries, don’t pass the laugh test. He wasn’t the same guy now that he was fighting where he should have been from the start of his career at 175, and he couldn’t handle going up against someone his size.
KO Coming?
“I’m going in there, and I’m fighting for my life, and he’s trying to take everything from me,” said David Benavidez about Morrell. “When I look at David Morrell, I’m thinking, ‘His team, his dog, his cat, and everyone over there.’ My main job is to beat the f*** out of him, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.”
What is Benavidez talking about? Why is he mentioning Morrell’s dog and cat? That sounds like pure paranoia on his part to include his pets as part of his rationale for needing to beat him. I mean, ‘The Mexican Monster’ has got the toughest opponent of his career, his first true test with his size, younger than him, and with more power.
Benavidez has to show that he’s for real and not just a phony who got over all these years by draining down to fight in a weight class smaller than his massive frame and mainly choosing old guys. If he loses this fight to Morrell, it just means he was counterfeit, and his whole career was just a sham.
