William Zepeda’s Blueprint: How he unveiled the strategy to defeat Shakur Stevenson’s defense style

Shakur Stevenson says he watched his fight against William Zepeda again and said it was the ‘hardest struggle’ of his career, and he felt that the Mexican Brawler had a potential to have a “Gatekeeper” In the lightweight section.

Zepeda’s blueprint for Shakur’s defeat

What fans saw was Zepeda Creating the blueprint How to defeat Shakur by overwhelming its potshot offense with volume punch. Despite not winning, Zepeda created a lasting blueprint to defeat Stevenson.

William deserves credit for showing how to defeat the Newark, New Jersey native. However, Cuba’s Robeisy Ramirez showed the key in the 2016 Olympics when he overwhelmed Stevenson with bumps, which then made him cry without tears.

The Truth: Shakur has become battered

WBC lightweight champion Stevenson (24-0, 11 COs) was pushed out by Zepeda and walked in the third round of a sample that came through its normal airtight defense.

The labeling of Zepeda (33-1, 27 costs) as a fighter-level fighter was a transparent effort by Shakur to reduce the nightmare he experienced all night and lose the battle in the eyes of some fans.

The judges gave Stevenson a wide 12-round decision, with scores of 118-110, 118-110 and 119-109. Those scores did nothing to deceive fans who watched the fight and saw that Shakur had been beaten on the ropes by Zepeda. He seems to take more punishment than the last opponent of Zepeda, Tevin Farmer, who had enough offense to save himself from being buried with his high production.

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Shakur’s “gatekeeper” insults fell back

“I watched it, and the most I could have given him were four rounds. However, it was a good fight. The (fighter) is difficult. I feel He must be a gatekeeper. All these people who skip lines. I feel you have to go through Zepeda, ”Shakur Stevenson said Cigar talK about what role William Zepeda can serve at lightweight.

We don’t know how good Zepeda is, because he has not yet fighted these top talents:

– Andy Cruz
– Abdullah Mason
– Floyd Schofield
– Raymond Muratalla
– Herrera Cores

The Cuban Cruz would be the right test to determine how good Zepeda is, because he is clearly the best fighter in the lightweight section. He does not get the same promotional boost as Shakur is by Matchroom and Turki Alalshikh. It just shows that boxing is more about marketing fighters than a product, even if they are false and nowhere are the best. It’s just business.

Stevenson’s protected record

That’s why Shakur Stevenson is not placed against fighters like Andy Cruz, Abdullah Mason or Schofield because they would ruin everything. All the promotion and marketing of him would run.

“Yes, it was the hardest struggle in my career. It wasn’t my struggle. It was his fight, but that doesn’t mean he won in his fight, ‘Shakur said when he said by the interviewer that he was worried to him after the first two rounds.

If Stevenson fought his fight, he would have been thrown out of Louis Armstrong Stadium that night, and he would have regretted doing it afterwards. In the short case that Shakur runs in rounds 10 to 12 from Zepeda, the crowd began to farm immediately. They did not wait to let him know that they did not appreciate his Jerry style because they paid to be entertained.

Shakur must understand that he will have to fight aggressively for the rest of his career if he does not want to hear the evil and is placed on lower cards. It is not the nineties in the Mayweather -era.

Fans will not tolerate boring fighters in this era, unlike when Floyd fought, when there were fewer options for entertainment. Shakur has to permanently delete his old combat style and continue to use the more entertaining approach he had for the Zepeda match.

Shakur’s unconvincing, fake smile

“You could see that I was smiling because I had fun. I wasn’t in panic. I had to do what he didn’t expect to do, ‘says Stevenson.

The fake smile That Shakur did, some fans fooled, but if you had any insight, you could see through his bleeding lips and swollen eyes that he was not a happy camper with the pressure Zepeda applied to him.

The smile was just a primitive bluff of Stevenson, trying to show fans and Zepeda that he was not bothered about the uninterrupted bumps he hammered with.

Zepeda may not have landed much on the head because he leans over the ropes to avoid head shots, but he struck the body at will. He exceeded Stevenson with a wide margin in the fight, but the judges only hit head shots in their standings. This explains their wide scores in favor of Stevenson.