By Jeff Zimmerman
Fightnews.com® caught up with WBA regular super middleweight champion and rising star David Morrell (9-0, 8 KOs) coming off his first-round knockout of Yamaguchi Falcao as the co-main event on the Super Fight of Tank vs. Ryan last weekend in Las Vegas. Morrell talked about his journey to the United States from Cuban, where he gets his knockout power, and his desire to fight the Mexican Monster David Benavidez in this exclusive interview.
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Hard to read. Technically, he looks very sound. Power seems to be very good too. Experience, amateur pedigree, but lacks in professional fights. His professional track record has not been against any world beater either. I think the jury is still out on this one, but I bet he cleans out most his division. I don’t think he can beat benavidez or canelo. I think he beats plant. I would like to see him against charlo if he went up to 168.
I mean no disrespect to Mr. Morrell, in fact this comment isn’t even directed at him; but what level of legitimacy can you really attribute to a “WBA World Championship” if its recognized champion has less than ten professional bouts in his record?
Very good fighter and capable of beating both Benavidez and canelo with a few more fights against live opponents. That.being said there is one thing we have not seen from morel, and that is him being cracked in the jaw by a puncher and react. I he turns out to have a good beard then we might be seeing anothet one off the future good if not great fighters from Cuba.
However, I might have gotta bit exited there, he. Needs good tough fights for him to develop and beat the top dawgs. Good fighter either way.
His English is better than I thought. Interesting that he said his power has developed since turning professional. Is that attributed to his physical maturity or the way he was trained under the Cuban amateur system? I’ve loved watching Morrell fight ever since his dismantling of Mike Gavronski. Like everyone else, I was puzzled by this guy who claimed to be the WBA champion after only 3 fights that I never heard of. He won me over that fight, but I do agree the jury is still out as to how good he really is. That question won’t be answered until he gets in against Benavides, Plant, Mbilli and the rest. I think Canelo will avoid this guy like the plague.
He and his people are confident and know what they have skill wise. Similar to Lomachenko taking a faster track to a world title. No, he hasn’t fought any world beaters but he seems ready and willing. You can tell when fighters are more hype than substance like Mungia and Berlanga; fighters who are protected and who get exposed when they step up. Morrell is better and I’d favor him over either Mungia or Berlanga.. probably beats Plant as well. I’d favor Benavidez over him.
Morrell should take on Edgar Berlanga before he over reaches and gets clobbered by Benavides.
Not a good interview due to translator did not translate properly and technical issues, very painful to watch due to the aforementioned.