By Jimmy James: Mexican star William Zepeda will face unranked boxer Tevin Farmer on November 16 in Saudi Arabia for no purpose by any means apart from to maintain his undefeated file intact. Nobody requested Zepeda to combat in opposition to Giovanni Cabrera a combat earlier than, and nobody requested Zepeda to combat Farmer now.
Farmer is out of his prime and can pose no critical challenges to Zepeda’s fashion, who fought nothing however tomato cans alongside the way in which avoiding powerful fights except for Joseph Diaz Jr.
Zepeda might have fought in opposition to Lucas Bahdi, Andy Cruz, Frank Martin, Child Austin, Edwin De Los Santos, Keyshawn Davis, Shakur Stevenson, Gustavo Lemos amongst different harmful boxers in his division. He as a substitute and his workforce waited for boxers like Keyshawn to tackle Lemos, so Zepeda might “breathe laborious” one other day selecting the weakest possibility accessible.
Zepeda doesn’t need to take critical challenges as a result of he doesn’t need to expose his horrible protection and poor footwork in opposition to boxers with higher ring IQ and approach. It could spell the top of Jay Panda’s coaching profession to lose in opposition to an unknown, harmful opponent like Badhi, who simply beat American prospect Ashton Sylve through KO.
If Steve Claggett had been as protected as Zepeda, he would have develop into a celebrity in Mexico in a single day. Claggett and Zepeda combat virtually identically with the identical boxing fashion. I’d guess my home that the Canadian even beats the breaks out of Zepeda for a fight-of-the-year contest.
There’s a purpose why Zepeda retains ducking prime rising opponents in his division. He desires to money out in opposition to a fighter like Gervonta Davis after which disappear from the general public eye to then develop into a journeyman or possibly a gatekeeper like Claggett.
Robert Garcia revealed in an interview that Zepeda rejected a suggestion to combat Raymond Muratalla. The Mexican was additionally supplied a combat based on his coach Panda for $1M to combat Stevenson a couple of 12 months in the past that his workforce rejected!
Turki Al-Sheikh tried a number of occasions to interrupt a cope with Oscar De LaHoya, however Zepeda’s workforce knew they weren’t able to face an opponent like Stevenson, Gervonta Davis, or Vasyl Lomachenko.
Zepeda has develop into one other Canelo Alvarez ducking opponents left and proper. Golden Boy is the paradise for geese who don’t need to lose their undefeated file in opposition to powerful opponents, even when it means to destroy their complete careers combating senior residents and janitors to have a shot at a cash combat. The present state of boxing is unhappy and horrible.
