Dan Rafael believes interim WBC super middleweight champion David Benavidez has the advantage in his fight against ‘regular’ WBA champion David Morrell on February 1.

Reporter Rafael feels Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) has a better chin and punch power than Cuban Morel (11-0, 9 KOs) in this bout, which will be shown live on PBC on Prime Video PPV from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Experience factor

“I would lean toward Benavidez. “I’m not saying that because of lineage, because David Morell has a deep amateur background of the Cuban regime.” Social boxing About the David Benavidez vs. David Morrell fight on February 1st.

“They are both in their best athletic condition for their age, although David Morrell has fewer fights because he got off to a late start. He left Cuba and moved on very quickly in the early days of his career. But he didn’t need to have 1,000 fights because he had With all that experience as an amateur, while Benavidez turned professional when he was 17 it has been more of a work in progress to get to this point.

“When you look at the records, and you see that one guy has less than 15 fights and one guy has 30, you think this guy is a lot older and has a lot more experience. That’s not the case. They’re both close in age and in terms of experience, the amateurs he’s making up for are Morel has more professional experience than that, while Benavidez has more professional experience.

Morell has more experience in the sport than Benavidez, who has fought 148 rounds as a pro during his 12-year career.

Morel has 54 rounds, but he was 130-2 as an amateur in Cuba and has more total rounds against better opposition than Benavidez fought as a pro. Benavidez has fought a limited number of fighters, mostly older fighters like Gvozdyk, Demetrius Andrade, 36, David Lemieux, and Caleb Plante.

Chin and strength

“I’m leaning towards Benavidez because the combination of his chin and power might be a little better than Muriel’s,” Rafael said.

Morell, 26, is the youngest fighter by just over a year and has never been injured. It’s hard to say for sure whether Benavidez has a better chin or not, while Morell is not hurt at all. In terms of strength, Morell is the best of the best. Rafael is down for it too.

Benavidez is more than just a big player who throws a lot of arm shots. All of the Mexican monster’s 24 knockouts came when he was fighting under his normal weight class at 168, and he had a significant size advantage over his opponents.

When he moved up to 175 for his final fight after 11 years as a pro, his power was never the same, and he never posed a threat to knock out his opponent Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15 last year.

“I don’t have any evidence of that because it’s not like Morell fell or fainted or was seriously injured. I have a feeling that in a gunfight, the guy who would be able to improve a little bit would be Benavidez. But we’ll see. That’s why,” Rafael said. “It’s kind of a 50-50 fight.”