'It's all fake': Morel calls Benavidez a 'little chicken' and vows to knock him out

David Morrell says the 'Mexican Monster' face, that David Benavidez is just a fake identity and that he's really “Fat little chicken.“Regular” WBA light heavyweight champion Morel (11-0, 9 KOs) vows to “knock out” Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) to expose him as a fraud.

Morrell vs. Benavidez will headline a 12-round fight in 15 days on Feb. 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be shown live on PBC on Prime Video PPV. Benavidez will have his interim WBC 175lb belt on the line, which he recently took against Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15 last year.

A fake monster?

This fight will show if Benavidez is as good as he and his followers think he is, or is fool's gold who has had naive fans all along. They want Benavidez to replace Canelo Alvarez so badly that they don't look at him with open eyes to see that he's been fighting ham and eggs his entire career. Fans want Benavidez to be their new hero so badly that they are unwilling to recognize the flaws he has and that he is not the real deal.

“You are the king? i'm coming for you Get out of here,” David Morrell told the PPV.comspeaking of David Benavidez, who emerges as the best in the 175-pound division, but still has no credible wins and looked awful in his featherweight debut.

“I got everything. Speed, strength, defense, attack, legs that move. I have everything. I don't know why people say he's “The Monster”. Boom. It drops to 100%. I promise you I will knock him out,” Morel said.

“The Mexican Monster” it's all fake. He is what we call in Cuba a “little chicken”. Benavidez is not the same as me,” Morel said. “In Cuba, we would take his lunch money. Such a fat kid. I don't want to say I'm a little poor kid, but I mean, man, it's different. That hunger Cubans have. I dare say few have it. I've been waiting for this fight for a long time. It's more serious right now.”

Fans who were mentally alert saw from Benavidez's last fight against 37-year-old Oleksandr Gvozdyk that he wasn't the fighter they thought he was. He labored in that fight, getting hit in the second half.

Benavidez was hurt in the 12th and luckily it didn't happen earlier in the round because Gvozdyk was lighting him up like a candle. This was hard to watch.

Benavidez's excuses, as he blames his awful performance on hand injuries, don't pass the laugh test. He wasn't the same guy now that he was fighting where he should have been since the beginning of his career at 175, and he couldn't keep up with someone his size.

am i coming

“I'm going out there fighting for my life and he's trying to take everything from me,” David Benavidez said of Morrell. “When I look at David Morrell, I think, 'His team, his dog, his cat and everybody there.' My main job is to beat the hell out of him and that's exactly what I'm going to do.”

What is Benavidez talking about? Why does he mention Morel's dog and cat? That sounds like pure paranoia on his part to include his pets as part of his rationale for needing to beat him. I mean, 'The Mexican Monster' has the toughest opponent of his career, his first real test with his size, younger man and more power.

Benavidez needs to show he's for real, and he's not just fake who overcame all those years by wearing himself out to fight in a weight class smaller than his massive frame and mainly picking on old guys. If he loses this fight to Morel, it just means he was a fake and his whole career was just a fake.