Andrade: Canelo, avoid Benavidez! – Boxing news 24

Demetrius Andrade warns Canelo Alvarez to avoid his former conqueror, David Benavidez, after losing to him by sixth-round stoppage in 2023. Andrade believes Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) is too big and throws too many combinations for Canelo to defeat. he

It’s understandable why Demetrius tries to make Benavidez sound invincible because it lessens the impact of his loss against him. He took an ego hit in that fight, suffering his first career loss. So he’s trying to protect his ego by making Benavidez look like he’s an exceptional talent when in reality, he’s not.

Benavidez’s next opponent

We saw that in his fight against a 37-year-old man Oleksandr Gvozdyk on June 15. Gvozdyk had recently come out of a four-year retirement and outclassed Benavidez, putting all kinds of lumps on his face.

Canelo has not mentioned wanting to fight ‘The Mexican Monster’ Benavidez, and the two fighters now compete in different weight classes. Benavidez, 28, fights at lightweight and will challenge the regular WBA 175-pound champion David Morrell in 33 days on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

If Benavidez loses this fight by knockout, he can return to the 168-pound division if he can still make weight. It would be useless for him to stay at 175 if Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) destroys him. Morrell is as big as Benavidez but faster, hits harder, younger and has better technical skills.

There’s a good chance Morrell wins this fight and takes care of Canelo’s problem permanently, not that he needs help. Andrade, 36, may be impressed by Benavidez’s offensive skills, but he’s no knockout. He couldn’t even stop Caleb Plant.

The only reason he stopped Andrade is because of his size and youth advantage. He was 26 when he defeated Demetri last year on November 25.

Don’t do it!

“I don’t think Canelo is beating David (Benavidez). I don’t blame him for not fighting David. Canelo, stay away from David. Don’t do it,” Demetrius Andrade said Fight Hub TV. “I am taller and longer than Canelo. I don’t know if Canelo (can beat Benavidez). This is a big boy.

“You have to have the right skill set, movement, IQ and sharpness to beat David, unless David is fighting the next biggest man at 175, it will be a different story. But at 168 , that’s how you have to be to beat him.

“Canelo is smaller than me and I was able to push David for a few rounds and do whatever he had to do. But that weight and his length, and he knows how to throw punches in bunches, will be a tough task for Canelo.

“David’s not someone to stop you either. Canelo’s not beating him,” Andrade said of his belief that Benavidez can’t be beaten by Alvarez.

Canelo would have already fought Benavidez, but he talked so much trash and looked needy. The way Benavidez has seemed fixated on Alvarez is scary, almost stalker-like. For any popular fighter to have someone as obsessed with the way Benavidez has come across, they would also ignore him.