William Zepeda may have an excessive amount of offensive firepower for the intelligent veteran Tevin Farmer to take care of of their 10-round light-weight battle in 24 days on November sixteenth at The Venue in Riyadh Season. The battle will probably be proven stay on DAZN.
Zepeda averages 100+ punches thrown per spherical, which is an absurd quantity, particularly with the facility he throws his photographs with.
Farmer To Use Shakur Defensive Strategy
It’s going to be subsequent to not possible for Farmer to outlive lengthy underneath that sort of regular bombardment with out adopting the Shakur Stevenson method: transferring nonstop for 12 rounds, making an attempt to not get hit, and hoping to win by a choice with just a few potshots.
That’s most likely not going to be efficient at stopping Zepeda as a result of he focuses his punches to the physique towards fighters that transfer quite a bit. Farmer should stand and battle Zepeda as a result of utilizing the safety-first Shakur-esque type gained’t be efficient. Zepeda has fought many runners in his native Mexico and is aware of the way to deliver them to heel.
The #1 ranked Zepeda is utilizing Farmer as a tuneup to arrange himself to problem the unbeaten Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) for his WBC light-weight title in February 2025. Shakur lately signed a two-fight take care of Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing.
Zepeda Might Wreck Hearn’s Plans
The British promoter Hearn’s grand imaginative and prescient is for Shakur to defeat Zepeda after which face WBA champion Gervonta Davis in a unification battle. Zepeda might damage these plans by defeating Shakur and probably going through Tank Davis in 2025 if the Baltimore native’s administration at PBC agrees to that battle.
Farmer, 34, is the underdog, and his solely probability of defeating Zepeda is to close down his offense. That’s not going not going to be simple. Throughout his nine-year profession, nobody has accomplished that but, and he’s trying higher with each battle.
The 28-year-old Zepeda is coming into his battle with Farmer having knocked out his final 4 opponents, destroying these fighters:
– Giovanni Cabrera: KO 3
– Maxi Hughes: RTD 4
– Mercito Gesta: TKO 6
– Jaime Arboleta: KO 2
Cabrera and Hughes are arguably higher fighters than Farmer, and neither of these guys might make it to the midway level of the competition.
Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) and the previous IBF tremendous Featherweight champion Farmer (33-6-1, 8 KOs) are the chief assist on the cruiserweight unification bout between WBA champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez and WBO champ Chris Billiam-Smith.
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