Tevin Farmer claims a rematch with lightweight phenom William Zepeda is “coming soon,” and he still insists he should have won their fight last Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Farmer could be waiting a long, long time for that rematch with Zepeda to happen because it ain’t never going to transpire in this lifetime. Zepeda easily won their fight last Saturday for the Latino Night event at The Venue in Riyadh. I think I speak for everyone when I say there’s no point in running back in a rematch.
Farmer needs to get in line and move back down to 130 because he doesn’t have the pop in his punches to exist in the 135-lb division with the killer sharks like Zepeda, Abdullah Mason, and Gervonta ‘Tank Davis.
“REMATCH COMING SOON……. BIG DAWG 2,” said Tevin Farmer on Instagram about a second fight with William Zepeda.
Zepeda Is Moving On
Apart from one round, the fourth, Zepeda (32-0, 27 KOs) beat the brakes off of the former IBF 130-lb champion Farmer (33-7-1, 8 KOs), hitting him with body shots that had him doubling over. No Fans want to see Zepeda overwhelm Farmer with volume punching a second time.
Farmer is just going to have to live with his loss. I know it hurts, but he’s got to take the pain, learn, and return from whence he came at super featherweight. He’s like on another planet, fighting at lightweight, and he doesn’t have the life support system to exist in this foreign territory.
That’s boring because the outcome is already predictable. Zepeda is on another level than the 34-year-old Farmer, who had nothing to offer with his Shakur-esque fighting style, which was quickly solved by the Mexican punching machine.
Zepeda passed that test, showing that his style is too much for the old, outdated, archaic, dinosaur potshot approach that Farmer and Shakur both use. That style is so passe in this era of boxing, and ain’t no one wants to see Zepeda run it back with Farmer or fight Shakur. Zepeda wants the ‘Big Tuna,’ Gervonta Davis, to fight the King of the lightweight division.
Farmer had nothing to offer Zepeda aside from an occasional potshot. That’s how he got the fourth-round flash knockdown of Zepeda. It was a single potshot.
Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya probably isn’t going to want to run it back with Farmer because he wants to move Zepeda into a world title shot against one of the champions at lightweight.
Initially, they were interested in fighting WBC belt-holder Shakur Stevenson, but with Zepeda’s impressive showing, they want WBA champion Gervonta Davis. That would be a massive fight for Zepeda.
Zepeda outworked Farmer in the other nine rounds and should have won by a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision if the judges had included body-punching in scoring the fight. However, the judges were zoomed in on headshots only, so they scored it a narrow 10-round split decision.
Zepeda-Farmer judges’ scores
– 95-94 for Farmer
– 95-94 for Zepeda
– 95-94 for Zepeda
I had it 9-1 in Zepeda’s favor over Farmer, and it wasn’t even a competitive fight. Even in Farmer’s best round, the fourth, it was all Zepeda other than the flash knockdown.
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