By: Sean Crose
Undefeated light-weight William Zepeda squared off towards in style veteran Mercito Gesta Saturday night time in Commerce, California. Their scheduled twelve rounder was the primary occasion of a Golden Boy card broadcast dwell on DAZN. Coming in at 27 years of age, and with a 28-0 document, the rising and onerous hitting (all however 4 of his fights had ended by knockout) Zepeda was was clearly the favourite, however the 34-3-3 Gesta’s earlier bout had ended with a shocking win over Joseph Diaz. The query, then, was might the 35 12 months outdated Filipino ship one other upset on Saturday night time?
The first spherical noticed every fighter making an attempt to dictate the tempo – Gesta with an out and in technique and Zepeda by way of aggression behind an efficient jab. Both fighters determined to do battle within the proverbial telephone sales space within the second. Toe to toe, they engaged in excessive octane, extended infighting. It was Zepeda’s physique work, nevertheless, which appeared to be doing the better quantity of injury. In the third, Zepeda launched such a livid assault that it was value questioning if Gesta would go down or Zepeda would run out of fuel.
Zepeda continued to make use of his energy punching technique within the fourth whereas Gesta one way or the other remained on his ft. Having been bloodied within the earlier spherical, Gesta appeared to double his efforts to keep away from Zepeda within the fifth. He couldn’t do it. Zepeda stored bulling in, firing energy shot after energy shot. With the relentless beating persevering with into the sixth, Gesta’s nook correctly stepped in and stopped the battle. Credit belonged to Gesta for his braveness and unimaginable endurance (he by no means went down). The night time, nevertheless, actually belonged to the very spectacular Zepeda.
“I am ready for Devin Haney,” Zepeda mentioned after the battle. A battle between he and Haney would certainly by attention-grabbing. Haney, in spite of everything, is an extremely slick and polished ring practitioner whereas Zepeda is all efficient aggression. Should Haney depart the light-weight division within the mud, nevertheless, there are nonetheless loads of large identify opponents for Zepeda to probably face, Teofimo Lopez, George Kambosos, Vasyl Lomachenko, and Shakur Stevenson to say only a few. The fact is that Zepeda might very nicely be hassle for every a type of people, which is why his identify now must part of the divisional dialog.
The light-weight division actually could also be loaded, however after Saturday night time, it’s time for Zepeda to be thought of amongst it’s higher echelon.
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