Kalvan Henderson is one of David Morell's knockout victims on suspicion of something being wrong with their fight. He comes out of work to complain about his suspicions about him and suspects something is fishy with the lack of drug tests for their 2022 fight.
Henderson (19-2-1, 13 KOs) was eliminated 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 guessing, he believes something is going on.
Morrell looked thin in the fight and not like someone using PEDs, but Henderson remains skeptical. One of Morell's knockout victims, Senna Agbeko, recently spoke out about having doubts about him due to a lack of drug testing. Even though he had no evidence either, he still spoke.
Henderson believes interim WBC light heavyweight champion David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) will defeat WBA “regular” champion Morell in their fight on February 1 because he says he is bigger than him and has better stamina. They're the same size, but okay.
“Superman” Morel? Henderson has doubts
“I went to Morell's second house in Minnesota. Nobody wanted to fight him. I had a great game plan. I felt like the fight was stopped early. Was the guy (Morrell) winning the fight? Yeah, but we had a game plan for the deeper rounds,” Calvin Henderson said. “. Fighthypeis still bitter about his fourth-round TKO loss to David Morrell two years ago on June 4, 2022.
“I catch him with body shots, and I hear what those body shots do to him. I knew he was going to slow down eventually. That fight was supposed to be drug tested, and we both signed papers to be drug tested. We got to the fight in the locker room, and he forgot World Boxing Federation to order drug tests.
“So, that's another thing. We're not just fighting politics. We're fighting a fighter who might be dirty in Morel… After the fight, there was no drug testing. There's something fishy,” Henderson said when asked if there was something “fishy” about David Morrell: “Superman only exists in comic books.”
There was nothing “Superman” about Morell scoring a fourth-round knockout of Calvin Henderson. He backed him up on the ropes and hit him with several powerful punches. The referee saw that Henderson was taking some nasty shots and stopped it.
He would have been hurt if he had allowed Morrell to continue hitting Henderson. There was too much time left in the round for the referee to allow the fight to continue.
“These guys have a lot of money behind them, a lot of money in things that are out of their control. Of course they will be put in the best possible position,” Henderson said. “This guy (Morrell) was bigger than me in the ring the night of the fight. The fighters know. Before the weigh-in, he drank Gatorade before stepping on the scale. “There's something fishy.”
It's a big stretch on Henderson's part to infer from Morell's drinking Gatorade during the weigh-in that he was using PEDs. This is a foolish guess on his part. He drinks Gatorade. So it's dirty. It doesn't make sense, but if you're trying to understand why Muriel hit you, you should find something instead of accepting that you weren't good enough.
Benavidez to beat Morel?
“I think Benavidez is going to beat Morell in terms of pure size and stamina. Benavidez is throwing hard punches for 15 straight rounds. So, I think his constant pressure and consistent punching will make a difference in this fight. I don’t think Benavidez’s power will carry over to 175″.
Calvin is a little confused. Benavidez is no bigger than Morell, and his stamina at 175 is no better than it is at 168. We saw that in Benavidez's last fight at 175 when he gasped out after six rounds against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Morell has a longer range than Benavidez by four inches, hits harder, has better hand speed and technical ability. Don't expect Henderson to know the details between Morell and Benavidez because he's a fighter and doesn't analyze fights like writers do.
“At 168, he's huge. Some people called him a 'weight bully,' but at 175, that's a natural weight class for him. So, I think you're going to see longer fights between Benavidez and Morell,” Henderson said. And maybe also in that weight class because of the bigger players.”
Things will be a lot different for the 175-year-old Benavidez compared to his bully days at 168, where he routinely held a huge size advantage over his mix of old, weak and deeply flawed opposition that his promoters have pitted him against for 28 years. From his first 29 fights in his career.
You can't blame “The Mexican Monster” Benavidez for choosing to stay at 168 for so long because it has allowed him to build a career that otherwise would not have lasted had he struggled as he should have been at 175 since turning pro in 2013.
If Benavidez had fought at light heavyweight, he likely would have been beaten multiple times by now. He will be just one of the group, alongside other contenders such as Joshua Buatsi, Willie Hutchinson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
