The Cuban boxer David Morrell Jr. (10-0-0, 9 KO’s) retained his title of the World Boxing Association (AMB) super middleweight after winning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by knockout (KO) to the Ghanaian Sena Agbeko.
Morrell knocked out Agbeko at 1:43 minutes of the second roundafter referee Mark Nelson saw no answers from the African.
After the victory, the 25-year-old boxer thanked the fans for their presence in The Armory room. “Thank you all for coming to this fight. (Here I am) Showing everyone who is number one,” the chain picks up. ESPN.
The fight was the highlight of the card broadcast by the television channel Showtime this Saturday and left emotions burning in the Cuban fighter.
“I told my team, my family and now I’m telling you…how nice next year is going to be. I’m happy, and it’s time to go home for Christmas and focus on what’s next.”he added.
He further added: “Everyone came to my fight. I’m so excited. This was the first time both my dad and my mom were able to come see me fight, and I’m so happy to see them here…this is my night. It is my moment. It’s my year. And let 2024 come“.
Prior to the boxing activity this Saturday, Morrell had written some words in his Instagram accountwhere he mentioned the presence of Cuban fans.
“Tonight is not only for me, it is for mine, for my people, for my blood, for Cuba, which will be supporting me that night and for all the fans and followers of @davidmorrelljr_oficial who will be at the @armorymn that night, let’s go with all my people,” he said.
This, the fifth defense of the Cuban boxer, who retains the title achieved last Aprilputs on alert the supremacy of the organization’s super champion at 168 pounds, the Mexican Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez.
At the moment “Canelo” Alvarez He is under pressure to accept the fight against the Mexican-American David Benavidez. The deadline for acceptance has been set for March 2024.
The president of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Mauricio Sulaimanhas said that this is the fight that all fans are waiting for and the WBC is working to make it happen.
Previously, the Cuban Morrell has warned that he wants to “fight Benavidez in 2024. One hundred percent.”
Last week, another Cuban, Robeisy Ramírez from Cienfuegos lost the WBA featherweight belt in his fight against the Mexican Rafael ‘El Divino’ Espinoza, held in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Against all odds, Mexican Rafael ‘El Divino’ Espinoza (22-0-0, 18 KO’s) won by majority decision over double Cuban Olympic titleholder Robeisy Ramírez (13-2-0, 8 KO’s) at the Charles F. Dodge City Center, where thousands of their compatriots went in what was announced as a party, with the presence of Gente de Zona.
About this defeat Cuban professional boxer Yordenis Ugás said: “Champion it was a hard night, but where you won more than you lost. This is boxing. This is life. Many of the great champions in history are made of victories, but above all of defeats, of how they react to defeats”.
