Fans are massively believing that the advantage of the experience that David Benavidez will have the victory on the Cuban David Morrell on Saturday evening in their light heavy battle on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Experience is overrated. What is more important, which of these two fighters has the power, the chin and the tenacity to win. The fuel tank is also an essential factor. As we saw during Benavidez’s last fight at 175, he faded after six rounds and took a punishment against Oleksandr Gvozdyk, 37, on June 15 of last year.
The fuel tank is important
This guy was not spring chicken, but he beat Benavidez’s farce in the second half of this fight. Thus, endurance is more important than experience in this fight.
If the “Mexican monster” fades against Morrell in the second half, I would not want to be in this situation. Morrell hits stronger than Gvozdyk, and he will do much more damage. The experience will not help Benavaz take these shots on the head or punches to the body of Morrell if it is exhausted.
“We are not afraid to fight anyone. If you are going to pay us a lot of money to fight guys like that, let’s make it happen, “said Jose Benavidez Sr. Millcity boxing About his son, David Benavidez, well paid to fight David Morrell, who, according to him, lacks experience to win.
Benavidez has more experience against the former veterans, but apart from the fight, he did not fight super talented fighters to say if it took him enough to win this fight.
It is difficult to say if Morrell’s experience in amateurs against the best in the world is greater than older veterans with which Benavidez’s career CV is filled.
The experience may not be the key to this fight. This could be summed up to who has the best skills, power and IQ. You can throw the experience through the window and focus on who strikes stronger and is more gifted by athletics between Benavidez and Morrell.
Trap experience
Many people seem to repeat the same error: they focus on experience in this fight, but lack the most important things, such as athletic capacity, power, tenacity, endurance and intelligence. These are much more important than the superficial experience, which is not what it cracked, especially in the case of Benavidez.
It was a fact that he was a weight intimidator all his career until his last fight against an old Gvozdyk, and he looked infilled in this fight. Was it because of his injured hands, as Benavidez says, or that he was finally fighting against someone in his size at 175?
It would mean more if Benavidez was a real super average weight and if he had fought many guys on his CV when they were younger. Would Benavidez be undefeated if he fought the guys of his size all his career? It is doubtful.
If he was fighting at Light Heavyweight or Cruiserweight, his entire career against Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol and Jai Opetaia, would he be the fighter that he is today, always undefeated or just another of the many contenders? This makes a difference when a fighter like Benavidez Combat of smaller and older fighters.
