Henderson: Morrell Fights “Fishy” – Boxing News 24

Kalvan Henderson is another of David Morrell’s knockout victims to suspect something was wrong with their fight. He came out to complain about his suspicions about him and suspects there was something fishy with the lack of drug testing for their 2022 fight.

Henderson (19-2-1, 13 KOs) was knocked out in the fourth round by Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) on June 4, 2022, at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said there was no drug testing for the fight and he felt something fishy was going on. Even though he has no evidence and is making assumptions, he thinks something is going on.

Morrell looked thin during the fight and not like someone using PEDs, but Henderson is still suspicious. Another of Morrell’s victims, Sena Agbeko, recently spoke out about her suspicions against him due to a lack of drug testing. Even if he has no proof, he continues to speak.

Henderson thinks WBC interim light heavyweight champion David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) will defeat WBA “regular” champion Morrell in their Feb. 1 fight because he says he’s bigger than him and has stamina improve. They’re the same size, but oh well.

“Superman” Morrell? Henderson has doubts

“I went to Morrell’s second house in Minnesota. No one else wanted to fight him. I had a great game plan. I felt the fight was stopped early. It was the boy [Morrell] win the battle? Yes, but we had a game plan for the deeper rounds,” Kalvin Henderson told Fighthype, still bitter about his fourth-round TKO loss to David Morrell two years ago on June 4, 2022.

“I’m catching him with body shots and I’m feeling what those body shots are doing to him. I knew it would slow down sooner or later. That fight should have been drug tested and we both signed the papers for it to be drug tested. We get to the brawl in the locker room and the WBA forgets to order drug tests.

“So that’s another thing. We’re not just fighting politics. We are fighting a potentially dirty fighter in Morrell… After the fight, no drug test has been done yet. There’s something fishy about it. Superman only exists in comics,” Henderson said when asked if there was anything “fishy” about David Morrell.

There was nothing “Superman” about Morrell scoring a fourth-round knockout of Kalvin Henderson. He backed him against the ropes and nailed him with several hard punches; the referee saw that Henderson was taking some wicked shots and stopped them.

He would have been hurt if he had allowed Morrell to continue beating Henderson. There was too much time left in the round for the referee to continue the fight.

“These guys have a lot of money behind them, a lot of money in things out of their control. So, obviously, they will be put in the best position possible,” Henderson said. “This guy [Morrell] he was bigger than me in the ring on fight night. The fighters know this. Before the weigh-in, he was drinking Gatorade before stepping on the scale. There’s something wrong.”

It’s a great gesture on Henderson’s part to conclude from the fact that Morrell was drinking Gatorade at the weigh-in that he was using PEDs. These are extravagant conjectures on your part. He’s drinking Gatorade; so it’s dirty. It doesn’t make sense, but if you’re trying to understand why Morrell beat you, you need to find something rather than accept that you’re not good enough.

Will Benavidez beat Morrell?

“I think Benavidez will beat Morrell in size and toughness. Benavidez throws hard punches for 15 consecutive rounds. So, I think its relentless, non-stop pressure [punches] will make a difference in this fight. I don’t think Benavidez’s power will get to 175,” Henderson said.

Kalvin is a little confused. Benavidez is no bigger than Morrell, and his stamina at 175 is no better than his stamina at 168. We saw this in Benavidez’s last fight at 175 when he ran out after six rounds against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Morrell has a longer reach than Benavidez by four inches, hits harder and has better hand speed and technical ability. You wouldn’t expect Henderson to know the details between Morrell and Benavidez because he’s a fighter and doesn’t analyze fights like writers do.

“At 168 he was huge. Some people have called him a “weight bully,” but at 175, it’s more of a natural weight class for him. So, I think you’re going to see longer fights for Benavidez and Morrell, maybe even in that weight class because of the bigger guys,” Henderson said.

Things will be very different for Benavidez at 175 compared to his days as a weight bully at 168, where he routinely enjoyed a huge size advantage over his mix of old, weak and severely flawed opponents against whom his promoters had been comparing him for 28 years. of his first 29 fights of his career.

You can’t blame the “Mexican Monster” Benavidez for choosing to stay at 168 for so long because it allowed him to carve out a career that otherwise wouldn’t have been there had he been fighting where he should have been at 175 since turning pro in 2013.

If Benavidez had fought at light heavyweight, he probably would have been beaten many times by now. He would be just one of the group, along with other contenders such as Joshua Buatsi, Willy Hutchinson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.