Promoter Oscar De La Hoya is obsessed with his fighter William Zepeda difficult Shakur Stevenson for his WBC light-weight title if he’s victorious towards Tevin Farmer of their conflict in 11 days on Latino Evening on November sixteenth on DAZN. Zepeda-Farmer will likely be combating a 10-rounder at The Venue in Riyadh.
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Shakur has been boldly speaking about Zepeda and predicting a win, and his followers, a lot of whom sound like they’ve by no means seen the Mexican fighter in motion, imagine Stevenson will simply win.
If Zepeda demolishes Shakur Stevenson, it’ll devastate Eddie Hearn, who has been speaking about turning the Newark native right into a “World Celebrity.” Hearn sounds so sure that he’ll remodel Shakur into an enormous famous person by subsequent yr; he doesn’t seem to have each toes on the bottom along with his expectations.
A win for Zepeda over the Eddie Hearn-promoted Shakur could be a possibility for De La Hoya to brag to get one up on the British promoter Hearn. De La Hoya has been concentrating on Hearn just lately on his Clap Again Thursday posts to mock him over the dangerous yr his fighters have had in 2024.
Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) and Farmer (33-6-1, 8 KOs) will likely be combating on the undercard of Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez vs. Chris Billiam-Smith. They’ll be seeking to steal the present from the headliner bout between the 2 cruiserweight champions.
Oscar De La Hoya: “Eddie [Hearn] doesn’t have fighters for William Zepeda to face,” mentioned De La Hoya to DAZN Boxing.
Chris Mannix: “There’s one man. Shakur.”
De La Hoya: “He injured his hand.”
Mannix: “Shakur is saying, ‘When this hand damage is over with, I’m going straight into William Zepeda.’”
De La Hoya: “Good, I’d adore it.”
Mannix: “For Zepeda, that is sort of a entice battle for him. Tevin Farmer actually has nothing to lose. He misplaced his final battle.”
De La Hoya: “He can wreck the social gathering, however I’m already set in my thoughts, and Zepeda desires Shakur. That’s the underside line. There’s a curse that Eddie has. He’s 0-17 this yr, I imagine. I solely communicate the details. I like working with promoters and making the very best fights.
“Thankfully for us at Golden Boy, we’ve got the opponents. The A-side, the B-side. So, we are able to do that all on our personal and decide night time.”
