Fans overly believe that the experiences possessed by David Benavidez will lead to victory over Cuban David Morrell on Saturday night in their lightweight battle in the heavyweight category 1 February at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The experience is overrated. What is more important is which of these two fighters has power, beard and toughness to win. Gas tank is also an essential factor. As we saw in the last fight of Benavidez at 175, he faded after six rounds and stated his career sentence against 37-year-old Oleksandar Gvozdyk on June 15 last year.
Gasoline tank important
This guy was not a spring chicken, but in the second half of that fight, he beat Benavidez’s stuffing. So endurance is more important than experience in this struggle.
If the ‘Mexican monster’ fades against Morrel in the second half, I would not want to be in this situation. Morrell affects Gvozdyka, and will do much more damage. The experience will not help Benaviez to take away those heads or blows to the body from Morrell if it is exhausted.
“We’re not afraid to fight anyone. If you will pay us good money to fight such guys, let it happen, “said Jose Benavidez Sr. BOKS MILLCITY About his son, David Benavidez, is paid well to fight David Morrel, who he thinks is missing experiences to win.
Benavidez has more experience against old veterans, but besides Sparing, he did not fight super talented fighters to tell him if he had enough to use him to win this fight.
It is difficult to say if Morrell’s experience in amateurs against the best in the world is superior to the older, washed veterans with whom Benavides’s career sequel is filled.
Experience may not be the key to this fight. It could be reduced to who has better skills, strengths and rings of IQ. You can throw experience through the window and focus on who is stronger and athletic is gifted between Benavidez and Morrell.
Experience the trap
Many people seem to repeat the same mistake: they focus on experience in this struggle, but they miss more important things, such as athletic abilities, strength, toughness, endurance and ring intelligence. They are far more important than superficial experience, which is not what it broke, especially in the case of Benavidez.
The fact is that he had been a bully until his last fight against old Gvozdyk, and in that fight he looked hellishly bad. Is it because of his injured hands, as Benavidez says, or finally fought against someone of his size at 175?
This would mean more if Benavidez was a real super medium weight and fought against many guys in their CV when they were younger. Would Benavidez be undefeated if he was fighting the guys of his whole career? That’s suspicious.
If he had struggled in lightweight heavy or cruisers all his career against Arthur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol and Jai Predetai, would he be a fighter as he is today, still undefeated or just another of many candidates? This makes a difference when a fighter like Benavidez is struggling with smaller, older fighters.
