Anthony David Benavidez vs. Osvary David Morrell Jr. & Stephen Fulton vs. Brandon Figueroa II RBR.

He truly is the Mexican monster, took on a tough fight and beat him up

 

I feel like Canelo would fight him but now that DB is at 175, maybe he might call for a CW. I'd still like to see it, I think it would do big buisness.

 

The sloppy staggering brawl we just saw, which he barely won, if that.

Acknowledging of course, that my opinion doesn't count for a great deal at 6 am, since I may choose to replace reality with one I like better.

 

I think Bivol is faster and that will be the difference. He will tire out Benavidez from all the miss swing. Also if Bivol can take Beterbiev power I don't see Benavidez giving him much trouble.

 

Excellent contest between 2 undefeated fighters at or approaching their peak. David Benavidez deservedly won the fight but credit also to Morrell who hung in tough.

 

It's even more frustrating to see people on here scoring those punches as legit 'landing on the legal scoring area' punches. That's why I don't bother reading most people's cards.

They have absolutely no idea that they have absolutely no idea. Then they'll argue their card is legit against someone else's...lol.

The internet didn't used to suck this hard 20 years ago.

 

I think Benavidez was more accurate though!

 

DB has good power but not the fight ending power up at 175 he would need against a Bivol or Beterbiev. Interested to see where he goes next, if Bivol and Beterbiev are somehow occupied with a third fight, then would like to see DB vs Buatsi/Smith winner

Morrell is good but he might want to go back to 168, he has probably given up some of his sharpness following DB to 175.

 

True, but a lot more of Benavidez’s punches got through. Morrell was visibly in a ton of pain and his lower left side was red from all the body shots.

 

Just to add the scorecards in this thread were all over the place which means there was quite a few swing rounds in this fight.

But for me outside of the 11th round i thought Benavidez did the better work in the 2nd half of the fight and he was just the more busy fighter overall and landed the more eye catching punches especially to the body.

I think 2 of the scorecards were fine as that's exactly how i had it 8-4 for Benavidez but obviously the 118-108 was terrible end of.

I could see a few different scorecards but i do feel like the right man won the fight even with the harsh point deduction for Morrell for me he just wasn't quite busy enough in the 2nd half of the fight.

 

Good fight. Morrel couldn’t get past the guard, while getting his own split or gone around. Uppercuts and hooks behind the arms were there all night for Benavidez. I didn’t score it but it was clearly a Benavidez win.