David Morrell’s coach, Ronnie Shields, predicts a knockout victory against the favorite, David Benavidez, this Saturday, February 1, lives on Amazon Prime PPV.
Morrell’s raw power
Shields do not know which round Morrell (11-0, 9 kos) will cow Benavidez (29-0, 24 kos), but he feels it will happen because his power will be too much for him. Benavidez has similar ideas, thinking he will hurt Morrell and score a knockout.
Morrell has always done well against warriors who came to him looking for exchange, and Benavidez is tailored to his style.
“I was calm, but I got a little worried about the exchange between Benavidez and Decuba’s Sr. It wasn’t about Benavidez. It was more about Decuba’s Sr. I wanted to make sure he was okay, ”David Morrell said to fight HUB TV, discussing the exchange between David Benavidez and his manager, Luis Decuba’s Sr., during Thursday’s last press conference.
“I don’t care if it’s by decision or knockout. What I love is that I win and I want to be the one that comes out on top. “
“He has to do both. You can’t fight against Benavidez in a way. You also had to fight him on his own game, ”Morrell’s coach Ronnie Shields told Sean Zittel about Morrell, who was supposed to fight against going backwards and getting forward towards Benavidez.
Morrell has no choice other than beating and boxing Benavidez if he wants to win or survive 12 rounds without being knocked out. Benavidez is a press fighter. It’s in his DNA and he won’t give up sometime for a moment in that fight. We saw it in his last match against the bigger, stronger Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15 last year.
Benavidez was constantly pushing the more powerful former WBC -PLETE Tungweight Master Gvozdyk and caused him to move to be stopped. Gvozdyk lacked the gas tank, youth or the will to stand his land or attack regularly, enabling Benavidez to win almost every round of undisputed.
“Just because he [Morrell] Have 11 matches don’t mean you don’t have the experience of doing it, ”Shields said when asked what happens if Benavidez wants to pull Morrell into deep waters in the later rounds. “That’s why we have the gym. That’s why we train every single day for this thing. “
Morrell has the experience in the amateurs, but he has not fought anyone in the professionals like Benavidez and will put him under the gun for twelve violent rounds. One way to deal with Benavidez’s pressure is to go early on a knockout because he wants to be there to be hit.
Morrell has shown power for knockout warriors who have never been stopped in their careers. Benavidez has not struggled for anyone with the kind of power that Morrell has, and he may be folded when he starts to be hit hard on his head and body.
Although he likes to call himself a “monster”, he is human and his resume is thin about talented resistance. Morrell and his manager, Luis Decuba’s Sr., are right that Benavidez has fought for many elderly, smaller warriors with one foot out the door of retirement. His coach/father, Jose Benavidez Sr., has protected him well in all these years and matches him selectively to build his 29-0 record.
They had hoped to convince Canelo Alvarez to fight them, but he was not fooled. He saw the false record and was not fooled. It’s the same bit that Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguia did. Fight the fluff opposition, build a plastic record and then hint on a big payday against Canelo. It’s sneaky, but it works.
Morrell of cow, says Shields
“He will feel power when he is close and he will feel power when Morrell is at a distance. So we feel we have the advantage both ways. I really think Morrell will knock him out. I don’t know when and I don’t care when. It’s just my stomach feeling that we want to knock him out, ”Shields said.
Morrell can knock out Benavidez, but he has to fight more aggressively than he did in his last match against ‘Hot Rod’ Radivoje Kalajdzic for him to do so. In this match, Morrell did not push enough and stayed on top of Radivoy to get knockout. He hurt him several times, but did not go after him.
