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David Benavidez continues to use talk of steroids as a selling point for his fight against WBA “regular” light heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1st.
It’s a strange way to promote the fight and get the fans interested, but Benavidez doesn’t seem to have much to say during his interviews. Besides, it is still making excuses for his abysmal performance in his debut at 175 against Oleksandr Gvozdyk last June. It sounds so weak.
PPV title fight
Next month, Benavidez will have his interim WBC 175-pound title fight against Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) in his PBC on Prime Video PPV headliner at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
“You’ve never heard my name associated with steroids. You’ve heard David Morrell’s name associated with steroids,” David Benavidez told Xicana Boxing about David Morrell, speaking of his unfounded suspicions about him being dirty before their fight in the February 1.
“The guy he fought said they tested him but they didn’t test David Morrell, even after the fight there’s no drug test. That’s weird because there’s always evidence of drugs right after the fight I want to tell people if I have something to hide why would I ask for more drug tests?
“We had nothing to hide and that is why we are trying to ask for clean boxing. We are trying as much as possible to make sure there is no funny business.
“I’m definitely going to punish him,” Benavidez said of Morrell. “As for when it will end, I don’t think about that. I’m thinking I’ll go in and make my game plan. The difference between my last fight (Oleksandr Gvozdyk) and his fight (Radivoje Kalajdzic). I went in with two injured hands.
Excuses or reality?
“I had a torn tendon here, I had a fractured ankle and I had a cut when I had 10 stitches three weeks before the fight. So I was already going through a lot of adversity. The fighter I was going up against going up against was a lot better than the fighter he went up against,” Benavidez said.
“I think because of that, it shows that I’m a different caliber of fighter. A lot of people if I had injured one hand, they would have called off the fight. I had two injured hands. I didn’t call off the fight because it was a big deal .
“Me and Tank were fighting on the same card on PPV. So imagine if I had pulled out of the fight, I would have let my fans down. I care about my fans more than anything,” Benavidez said.
What ‘The Mexican Monster’ doesn’t say is that he looked worse against Gvozdyk than Morrell did in his one-sided win over Kalajdzic. Morrell hurt his opponent repeatedly in that fight to the head, and his body got stronger as the fight went on. In contrast, Benavidez never hurt Gvozdyk and tired after six rounds. He took a beating 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 power punches with both hands and didn’t look hurt. where Benavidez looked bad was how he tired in the second half, took a lot of hard punches from the 37-year-old Gvozdyk and hurt himself 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 has excused his poor performance in his debut at 175 against Oleksandr Gvozdyk, blaming injured hands and a recent cut. It would have been better if he had let his performance speak for itself instead of making excuses afterwards.
