Keyshawn Davis believes the experience that David Benavidez will lead to him defeating the slightly younger 11-fight professional David Morrell this Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Not His First Rodeo
The lightweight contender Davis says Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) will “probably” fight well in the early stages of the fight, but he sees Benavidez’s past experience proving too much. He states that this isn’t Benavidez’s “first rodeo” and that he’s been in big fights.
Saturday’s fight will be Benavidez’s first true rodeo because Morrell is young, not washed up, and the same size as him. This fight will show if ‘The Mexican Monster’ is a hype job created by careful maneuvering or the real thing. If he fails, we’ll all know he was a creation like many others.
It’s hard not to view him a fake due to his plastic record. There is NOBODY in Benavidez’s entire 29-fight resume that jumps out at you to say, ‘This guy is for real.’ If you’re the simple-minded sort, naive to the world, and can easily be tricked, you’d think Benavidez has proven himself in countless rodeos. But if you possess the ability actually to think and analyze, you’ll spot the hustle.
Benavidez’s “Best” Victories
Caleb Plant: *Post-Canelo knockout loss
Demetrius Andrade: 36
Oleksandr Gvozdyk: 37
Anthony Dirrell: 38
David Lemieux: 35
“I think Benavidez. Morrell will probably put up a great fight, probably early on. I just feel that Benavidez, it’s not his first big showdown. He’s been in the ring with a lot of people professionally,” said Keyshawn Davis to Sean Zittel on X, picking David Benavidez over David Morrell on Saturday.
“This is not his first rodeo. I like how Morrell is not taking it. He’s not taking it like a young fighter [Note: Morrell, 27, is one year younger than 28-year-old Benavidez]. I didn’t know he [Morrell] had 12 fights until last night [Correction: Morrell has 11 pro fights but 137 amateur fights with a 135-2 record]. I didn’t even know that.
“I just feel like David Benavidez, he’s different, bro. It separates an A-class from a B-class fighter. I feel like he’s smarter than people give him credit for. He’s wise in that ring. He’s not going in there and punching on you unless he feels like he can do that. But he’s smarter than people actually think.
“Talking about Benavidez. I watched the Art of War interview, and I’m a fan now, Benavidez. You got to have respect for Benavidez, but now I’m a fan, bro. So, shout out to Benavidez. Make sure you get that dub,” said Keyshawn.
The Art of War interview from Benavidez was just a bunch of psycho-babble spouted by him, sounding like it was stuff he’d read from a self-help book. It was a bunch of nonsense that is meaningless for a fight against Morrell or anybody.
It’s just words that Benavidez chirped to make him sound analytical. When in reality, he’s just a simple come-forward type of volume puncher who gets over on being bigger than his well-selected, smaller, and older opponents.
The criticism that Benavidez has is that his ‘Big fights” have come against older fighters in their mid-30s and nowhere near their prime.
Moreover, they were smaller than Benavidez because he had chosen to fight below his light heavyweight weight class, melting down to compete at 168 and then looking huge after rehydrating.
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