Collision of styles at 135 when Zepeda rematches farmer will zepeda in Cancun shine?

Per Joe Hicketts: William Zepeda (32-0, 27 food) stands on Saturday, March 29, Tevin Farmer (33-7-1, 8 COs) in Cancun in Cancun in a re-broadcast of their fight in November 2024, which won Zepeda with unanimous decision. The battle is for Zepeda’s WBC Interim World Lightweight title and will be broadcast Live on dazn.

The best stories in sports often involve conflicting styles. I think of people like Federer Nadal, Senna Prost, and of course Ali Frazier. I think I’ve always had a little soft place for two people who approach the same problem in different ways and the cultural collision it can bring.

This is why this weekend, although in reality it is a fair fight against the world level, it is somewhat capturing my imagination in a way that two similar fighters are not.

William Zepeda will reject Tevin Farmer again in a re -broadcast of their first battle in November, and it can be considered a bit of a last chance -sizzle for the farmer, while in his career it is not the big battle between guys like Tank Davis, on the back of two back losses, and in the camps of fighters. “

Farmer in the earlier part of his career really looked in the form of a pernell whitaker, smooth back foot southpaw boxing, a lot of head movement with the occasional flashy single, the biggest difference between the two, would be Punch Power, which the farmer unfortunately was missing a bit, and this is where his opponent William Zepeda used in their fight last year.

If Farmer is your typical flashy Southpaw in the American style, then Zepeda is your typical Mexican fighter who is also just a South Paw. Nothing really keeps you on a watch from Zepeda except his production. He is much more upright and textbook in his style as a farmer, and he fights with the typical solid Mexican incidence of Jab Jab, enters, then three strokes to the body and ends at the top.

None of that is especially spectacular, but the thing that makes Zepeda special is that the output is quite ridiculous. I am not really one for punch statistics, but in the previous farm fight Zepeda threw 131 strokes alone in round 9, and although none of the bumps have a real concussion, it is the volume that eventually drowns the opponent.

The best comparison is strange that someone like Oleksandr Ulsyk, while both have completely different styles, both rely on a constant stream of solid bumps, rather than a wilderness hay maker to do the damage, Zepeda is not a one -time knockout, despite what his co -relationship says, but he does have a good variety of his punch.

I would say that although Zepeda is one of the guys who just really knows how to fight in one way, such as Oleksandr Ulsyk, it’s one thing to know what someone is going to do; It’s another thing to actually go out and stop it. Zepeda will come out like a train and get right into your face and vomit hard shots and drown and effectively try to drown you with activities, as I said that I think nothing he does is really so special, but you have to delay him in some form by either keeping a little power in your own shots.

Do you see where I am going here?

In the previous fight, the farmer on my map lost the first three rounds, not because he did not have success, but because she and two were not enough to drown the five- and six-punch combinations that Zepeda threw. In short, Farmer couldn’t make it his kind of slower battle. Farmer finally dropped Zepeda with a textbook slip and left fourth, but in reality Zepeda won the battle quite comfortably, overwhelmed the older American and picked up the activities.

I don’t think Zepeda is the world beater that Golden Boy thinks he is his, I haven’t seen much variety how he can fight, I don’t think he works a lot in the way of head movement, and if I get backed up, I don’t think he would be nearly as effective. The question is, however, is the farmer the man to do this?

If I were a farmer, I would look at many Bernard Hopkins fights for inspiration, then he has to delay Zepeda somehow, make it ugly and then try to push Zepeda back in the second half of the fight he could do in the first place, the slower the pace is the better for farming. The problem, though, is that I don’t think that Farmer really has the guest tank and the punching power to get Zepeda’s respect, and at 34, will he really be better than he was in their previous battle?

I really like Farmer as a fighter, I think he is much more exciting than many comfortable, and despite having a reputation as a smooth boxer, the man can hold his feet and trade on the inside, but it is that the opportunity would be five years too late.

A younger farmer could have given Zepeda fittings, I just felt that if it was the time of the farmer again, it would have been in the first fight.

I see the fight as effectively a repetition of the first, with the farmer being somewhat overwhelmed from the opening bell. You may see that the farmer is looking for his feet a little more and trying to get the respect of the Mexican, and if that happens, it can be a little more of an exciting battle, I only see the more likely scenario, as Zepeda sends a little punishment, as farmers have countries, but farmer does not have the killer to rotate the screw. Farmer will have his moments, but as in the first, I do not see one hard left hand enough at four sleeping bumps on the inside. I think Zepeda’s unanimous decision is a fairly safe bet, but I would like to be proven wrong.

On the bottom map, Oscar Collazo (11-0, 8 food) defends its WBO-straw weight title against Edwin Cano Hernandez (13-2-1, 4 food).