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Kalvan Henderson is another victim of David Morrell’s knockout to suspect that something was wrong with his fight. He has come out of the woodwork to complain about his suspicions about him and suspects that something was fishy with the absence of drug tests for his 2022 fight.
Henderson (19-2-1, 13 KOs) was knocked out in the fourth round by Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on June 4, 2022, at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said there was no drug test for the fight and he felt something suspicious was going on. Although he has no proof and is guessing, he believes something is going on.
Morrell looked thin in the fight and not like someone using PEDs, but Henderson is still wary. Another of Morrell’s knockout victims, Sena Agbeko, has recently spoken out about her suspicions about him due to the lack of drug tests. Although he has no evidence either, he has still been talking.
Henderson believes interim WBC light heavyweight champion David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) will defeat WBA “regular” champion Morrell in their February 1 fight because he says he’s bigger than him and has better resistance. They are the same size, but oh well.
“Superman” Morrell? Henderson has doubts
“I went to Morrell’s second home in Minnesota. Nobody else wanted to fight him. I had a great game plan. I felt the fight was stopped early. Did the guy (Morrell) win the fight? Yeah, but we had a game plan for the deeper rounds,” Kalvin Henderson said Fighthypestill bitter from his fourth-round TKO loss to David Morrell two years ago on June 4, 2022.
“I’m catching him with body shots, and I’m hearing what those body shots do to him. I knew he was going to slow down at the end. That fight was supposed to be drug tested, and we both signed the paperwork to be tested. We get into a fight in the dressing room, and the AMB forgets to order the drug tests.
“So this is something else. We’re not just fighting politics. We’re fighting a potentially dirty fighter in Morrell. . . . After the fight, there was still no drug test. There’s something fishy . Superman only exists in the comics,” Henderson said when asked if there was anything “fishy” about David Morrell.
There was nothing ‘Superman’ about Morrell scoring a fourth-round knockout of Kalvin Henderson. He backed him up against the ropes and nailed him with several hard punches; the referee saw that Henderson was taking some bad shots and stopped them.
He would have been hurt if he had allowed Morrell to continue hitting Henderson. There was too much time left in the round for the referee to let the fight continue.
“These guys have a lot of money behind them, a lot of money in things out of their control. So of course they’re going to put themselves in the best possible position,” Henderson said. “This guy (Morrell) was bigger than me in the ring on fight night. Fighters know that. Before the weigh-in, he was drinking Gatorade before he stepped on the scale. Something is fishy.”
It’s a stretch for Henderson to conclude that Morrell drank Gatorade at the weigh-in that he was using PEDs. This is an absurd guess on your part. He’s drinking Gatorade; therefore, it is dirty. This makes no sense, but if you’re trying to understand why Morrell beat you, you need to come up with something instead of accepting that you weren’t good enough.
Benavidez to beat Morrell?
“I think Benavidez will beat Morrell on sheer size and stamina. Benavidez throws hard punches for 15 straight rounds. So I think his relentless pressure and nonstop (punching) will make the difference in this fight. I don’t think the Benavidez’s power to move to 175,” Henderson said.
Kalvin is a little confused. Benavidez is no bigger than Morrell, and his stamina at 175 is no better than his at 168. We saw that in Benavidez’s last fight at 175 when he lost after six rounds against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Morrell has a longer reach than Benavidez by four inches, punches harder and has better hand speed and technical ability. You wouldn’t expect Henderson to know the details between Morrell and Benavidez because he’s a fighter and doesn’t analyze fights like the writers do.
“At 168, he was huge. Some people called him a ‘welterweight,’ but at 175, it’s more of a natural weight class for him. So I think you’re going to see longer fights for Benavidez and Morrell, maybe also in that weight class because of the bigger guys,” Henderson said.
Things will be very different for Benavidez at 175 compared to his bullpen days at 168, where he routinely enjoyed a huge size advantage over his old, weak and very flawed mix of opposition against the which its promoters had faced for 28 years. of his first 29 career fights.
You can’t blame ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez for choosing to stay at 168 for so long because it’s allowed him to have a career that otherwise wouldn’t have been had he fought where he should have been at 175 since he turned. pro in 2013.
If Benavidez had fought at lightweight, he probably would have been beaten many times. He would be just one of the group, along with other contenders such as Joshua Buatsi, Willy Hutchinson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
