Morrell unleashes on ‘Fat Boy’ Benavidez: Is this the end of the ‘Mexican monster’?

David Morrell hit back this week in response to the trash David Benavidez has been dishing on him since their February 1st fight, calling him “fat boy” and saying it will be the “Terminator” when they meet in 49 days.

Morrell can target Benavidez’s flabby midsection with his punches and expose that weakness in his headliner at PBC on Prime Video PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

If Benavidez loses this fight, he can say goodbye forever to the huge mega-million payday against the winner of the Feb. 22 rematch between undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.

Benavidez is targeting the winner of this fight because he stands to gain untold riches by fighting whoever comes up. However, if Morrell destroys Benavidez, that’s the end of his dreams.

The monster’s appetite

Benavidez, 27, looked thick in the midsection, and his midriff could be seen during the promotional bout with Morrell, in which both guys took off their shirts. “Mexican Monster” Benavidez looked nothing like a professional athlete with the guts he wore.

He is now working feverishlytrying to make weight in training, and talking bravely, almost angrily, this week about what he’s going to do to Morrell. If I had discipline, I wouldn’t put weight on it in the first place.

In a video This week, Benavidez said, “I’m going to knock that mother out.” Benavidez has gotten used to being the bully against bigger, smaller and weaker opposition while fighting at super middleweight.

Now that Benavidez has moved up to 175, it hasn’t yet dawned on him that he can no longer do what he used to do. He can’t use his size to dominate the opposition, and he’s finally facing quality guys instead of the bland opposition his management has been feeding him his entire 11-year career.

Benavidez’s best wins:

– Oleksandr Gvozdyk: 37 years old and after a 4-year retirement
– Anthony Dirrell: 38
– David Lemieux
– Demetrius Andrade: 35
– Caleb Plant: After his knockout loss to Canelo. Need I say more?

Interim WBC 175-pound champion Benavidez has obviously been eating well. Still, he’ll need to control himself because he could soon be forced to move up to cruiserweight or heavyweight.

It had only been five months since his last fight on June 15, but Benavidez looked completely out of shape. This suggests he doesn’t live life between fights and let loose like Tyson Fury does.

“F*** you fat boy. I’m the finisher,” David Morrell told Fighthype, reacting to the knockout predictions and trash talk of interim WBC light heavyweight champion David Benavidez ahead of their WBC showdown February 1 in 49 days.

WBA “regular” light heavyweight champion Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) says he prefers to show “respect” for his opponents, but when they mouth off like Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs), he will show you nothing but the back of his hand. Morrell claims that if they were in Cuba, a person like Benavidez would be kicked out.