Benavidez-Morrell: Experts weigh in with their fight predictions
Trainers, fighters, media offer views on light heavyweight showdown
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The hard-working PR team gathered a slew of predictions for how the David Benavidez-David Morrell light heavyweight showdown will go.
The fight headlines the PBC on Prime PPV on Saturday (Prime Video PPV, PPV.COM, 8 p.m. ET, $79.99) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and boxers, trainers and media members weighed in with their pick. Here is a sampling of the picks beginning with mine:
Dan Rafael, Fight Freaks Unite: Benavidez vs. Morrell is one of the best fights that could have been made. It’s a 50-50 fight on paper, it has high significance and it’s been brewing for a while. In the ring, both guys are very skilled, but they also usually make for entertaining fights, so I am really looking forward to it. It’s a hard pick but I’m going with Benavidez by decision in a tough fight.
Juan Manuel Marquez, Hall of Famer and ProBox analyst: This is going to be a complicated fight for Benavidez across the first few rounds. However, Benavidez’s speed and the level of his past opponents are better than Morrell’s. Benavidez has shown us his speed, his power and his conditioning, which will be very important and allow him to overcome Morrell and win this fight by a decision.
