Tevin Farmer’s followers are offended, believing he was robbed in his 10-round break up determination in opposition to light-weight contender William Zepeda (32-0, 27 KOs) on Saturday night time of their combat at The Venue in Riyadh.
Farmer’s followers maintain mentioning his fourth-round flash knockdown of Zepeda, utilizing that as a cause why he deserved the victory. They don’t point out that it was the one spherical that Farmer truly appeared to win, and he was labored to the physique and head by Zepeda’s quantity punching.
If the one factor an individual noticed was the transient flash knockdown clip on social media that has gone viral, it’s comprehensible why they assume he was robbed and deserved the win over Zepeda. That’s not the truth of the combat. Zepeda dominated each spherical with quantity and had farmers holding for survival functions.
Zepeda Overwhelmed Farmer
Farmer’s followers have to let this little statistic sink in. Zepeda threw 1087 punches and landed 527 for a 48% join price. Not solely was Zepeda throwing a large variety of punches every spherical, however he actually couldn’t miss.
What made that much more important is that he was throwing energy pictures, lots of them to the physique of Farmer, and that’s why the Philadelphia native had nothing left by the sixth spherical.
Farmer’s Sea Lamprey Technique Fails
These physique pictures from Zepeda have been kryptonite to Farmer, weakening him to the purpose the place he was holding him like a sea lamprey latching onto a fish. Farmer did the perfect he might together with his pot pictures, however he couldn’t match the work price or the ability of Zepeda’s pictures. It’s unclear if Farmer’s crew’s recreation plan for the combat was to clinch incessantly to smother Zepeda’s offense or if he got here up with this on his personal. Both means, it was a failure.
If Farmer needed to win, he wanted to throw punches as a result of it was apparent that he couldn’t deal with the warmth that Zepeda was placing on him.
That’s why he misplaced. If judges scored rounds primarily based on clinching, Farmer would have gained as a result of he topped Zepeda in each spherical in that class.
It’s not the tip of the world for Zepeda. He can come again from this loss if he returns to tremendous featherweight, nevertheless it’s apparent at this level that he’s too weak to compete at light-weight. If he stays within the weight class, he’s going to proceed for use as a B-side opponent to assist put together fighters for Shakur Stevenson, which is why he bought the gig in opposition to Zepeda. He’s a knockoff model of Shakur, however braver, extra energy and never a runner.
De La Hoya In Awe of Zepeda
“I had it one level for William. He had the relentless type; he saved throwing punches. He lands punches like no different fighter,” mentioned Oscar De La Hoya to iFL TV about William Zepeda after his win over Tevin Farmer on the Latino Evening on Saturday in Riyadh.
“Tevin is a good fighter. He informed me after the combat, ‘Look, I need to come again and combat for you. Completely, Tevin Farmer shall be champion sooner or later.”
If Farmer goes to be a champion “sooner or later,” it had higher be quickly as a result of he’ll be turning 35 in July, and he’s misplaced his final two fights. De La Hoya wants to steer Farmer to return to 130 or drop down even additional to 126 if he could make the load.
Farmer is just not going to ever be a world champion at 135 as a result of he can’t punch onerous sufficient, as we noticed in opposition to Zepeda. He’s going to clinch his solution to a world title.
Now this combat is over, Zepeda is able to problem WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson and overwhelm him with punches like he did in opposition to Farmer. Shakur’s work price is abysmal in comparison with that of Zepeda.
For instance, in Shakur’s combat in opposition to Edwin De Los Santos final 12 months on November sixteenth, he threw solely 297 punches and landed 81. Now, examine that to the 1087 punches thrown by Zepeda in opposition to Farmer. Zepeda landed 527 of these pictures. You see what I imply. It’s most likely not going to finish nicely for Shakur.
