Jim Lampley was impressed with David Benavidez’s win over David Morrell final Saturday evening. He thinks ‘The Mexican Monster’ would stand a greater likelihood of defeating undisputed mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev than Dmitry Bivol subsequent.
Lampley feels that Bivol’s “a number of expertise” would make it a harder match for Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) in comparison with the knockout artist Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs).
The Beterbiev Matchup
Though he didn’t clarify why Artur can be the better possibility, he might imagine Benavidez’s quantity punching and hand velocity can be an excessive amount of for the slower, heavy-handed four-belt champion. It’s a battle that Benavidez can win if he can deal with Artur Beterbiev’s energy on the within and his counter-punching.
Many boxing followers on social imagine that Benavidez’s efficiency towards Morrell, getting damage a number of occasions and being knocked down, would make him susceptible to the onerous photographs from Beterbiev. He can be in Benavidez’s face all the battle and wouldn’t take breaks as Morrell did.
Beterbiev would battle Benavidez the identical approach he did the power-puncher Callum Smith by pressuring him nonstop to interrupt him. Smith is an even bigger puncher than Benavidez with both hand, and Beterbiev knocked him out within the seventh spherical final 12 months on January thirteenth.
Lampley’s View
“I feel Beterbiev is the extra probably opponent for him to beat,” stated Jim Lampley to Combat Hub TV when requested who David Benavidez has a greater likelihood of beating between these two: Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
“I feel Bivol, due to his a number of expertise and his boxing craft, is a bit bit extra completely different equation. I feel they’re a bit bit greater than David, however I wouldn’t rule out David beating both or each.”
Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) often is the one Benavidez faces subsequent, not Beterbiev. Bivol has a great opportunity of utilizing his velocity to defeat Beterbiev, 40, of their rematch on February twenty second. Turki Al-Sheikh has already stated he would need the Benavidez-Morrell winner to problem Bivol or Artur subsequent.
