Oscar De La Hoya says William Zepeda may face Tevin Farmer in a rematch earlier than he takes on WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson if he defeats Floyd Schofield on February twenty second.
Shakur received’t be pleased when he hears that Zepeda is preventing a rematch with Farmer. He hoped to defend towards the favored Mexican star subsequent. The New Jersey native Stevenson wants that struggle towards Zepeda to create curiosity in getting the unification match towards WBA light-weight champion Gervonta Davis.
Zepeda-Farmer II?
#1 ranked 135-lb contender Zepeda (32-0, 27 KOs) defeated Farmer (33-7-1, 8 KOs) by a 10-round break up choice on November sixteenth in Riyadh. It’s a waste of time to have a rematch. Zepeda clearly was the higher fighter and would have knocked out a really tired-looking Farmer if it had been a 12-round contest.
Farmer’s engine was on empty by the ninth spherical from the quick tempo and the quite a few physique photographs that Zepeda had hit him. The Mexican expertise was throwing near 100 punches per spherical and focusing loads on the physique.
It was spectacular to see Farmer take all these photographs, however on the finish of the struggle, he appeared like he’d crawled out of a battle zone.
The previous IBF tremendous featherweight champion Farmer had his moments within the struggle, scoring a flash knockdown of Zepeda within the fourth. Zepeda got here on robust to dominate Farmer, 34, within the second half of the struggle, touchdown quite a few physique photographs that sapped the power.
Curiously, the judges appeared to disregard all of the physique photographs Zepeda landed on Farmer when scoring the struggle, which ought to have been one-sided in Williams’ favor. The scores had been 95-94 for Williams, 95-94 for Zepeda, and 95-94 for Farmer.
“We’ve got to attend as a result of it is a actual struggle. Shakur Stevenson and Floyd Schofield is an actual struggle, a harmful struggle for Shakur,” mentioned Oscar De Hoya to Battle Hub TV when requested if William Zepeda will struggle Shakur Stevenson subsequent after his protection towards Floyd Schofield on February twenty second.
“I’ve to go along with my man. I feel my man, Child Austin, will pull off the upset, after which we’ll it from there. William Zepeda, will get him a struggle within the meantime.
“There’s presumably talks of a rematch with Tevin Farmer. It was such a superb struggle,” mentioned De La Hoya about Zepeda’s 10-round break up choice victory over Farmer on November sixteenth in Riyadh. “I feel Tevin Farmer is a terrific fighter. I really like the way in which he handles himself exterior the ring. He’s a superb child.
Farmer has taken plenty of punishment in his final two fights towards Zepeda and Raymond Muratalla. We’re most likely not going to see the identical effort from him in a rematch with Zepeda. He bought beat up too badly, and Zepeda goes to pour it on proper from the begin to get him out of there.
“So, yeah, it’s a matter of sitting down with Zepeda’s group and carving out a plan for him. However I do love the rematch,” mentioned De La Hoya a few second struggle between Zepeda and Farmer.
