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David Benavidez continues to use talk of steroids as a selling point for his fight against ‘regular’ WBA Light Heavyweight Champion David Morrell on February 1st.
It’s an odd way to promote a fight and get fans interested, but Benavidez doesn’t seem to have much to say during his interviews. Also, he is it is still justified for his poor performance in his debut at 175 against Aleksandar Gvozdik last June. It sounds so weak.
PPV Title Fight
Next month, Benavidez will have his interim WBC 175 lb title on the line against Morel (11-0, 9 KOs) in their PBC headliner on Prime Video PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
“You’ve never heard my name associated with steroids.” You’ve heard David Morrell’s name being linked to steroids,” David Benavidez told Xicana Boxing about David Morrell, addressing his unfounded suspicions that he is dirty ahead of their February 1 fight.
“The guy he fought said they tested him but they didn’t test David Morrell, even after the fight there’s no drug test.” It’s weird because there are always drug tests right after the fight. I want to tell people that if I have something to hide, why would I ask for more drug tests?
“We had nothing to hide and that’s why we’re trying to look for clean boxing.” We test as much as possible to make sure there is no funny business.
“I’m definitely going to punish him,” Benavides said of Morel. “As for when it’s going to end, I’m not thinking about that.” I think I’ll go in and do my game plan. The difference between my last fight (Oleksandr Gvozdik) and his fight (Radivoje Kalajdžić). I went in there with two injured hands.
Excuses or reality?
“Here I had a torn tendon, a broken wrist and a cut where I got 10 stitches three weeks before the fight. So, I’ve already been through a lot of trouble. The fighter I fought was a lot better than the fighter he was going against,” Benavidez said.
“I think because of that it shows that I’m a different caliber of fighter.” A lot of people, if they had an injured hand, they would cancel the fight. I had two injured hands. I didn’t cancel the fight because it was a big deal.
“Me and Tank fought on the same card at the PPV. So imagine if I pulled out of the fight, I would be letting my fans down. I care about my fans more than anything – said Benavidez.
What the ‘Mexican Monster’ doesn’t say is that he looked worse against Gvozdik than Morrell did in his one-sided win over Kalajdzic. Morrell hit his opponent in the head multiple times in that fight, and his body got stronger as the fight went on. In contrast, Benavidez never hurt Gvozdik and tired after six rounds. He got beat down the stretch.
There were no signs that Benavidez was injured in his last fight against Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15. He was throwing full force punches with both hands and didn’t seem hurt. Benavidez looked bad as he tired in the second half, took a lot of hard shots from the 37-year-old Gvozdik and hurt him to the body.
The fatigue has nothing to do with injured hands and everything to do with Benavidez not carrying the extra weight well.
Benavidez made excuses for his poor performance in his debut at 175 against Alexander Gvozdyk, blaming injured hands and a recent cut. It would have been better if he just let his performance speak for itself and not make excuses afterwards.
