By: Sean Crose
An IBF and WBA light-weight title eliminator between the undefeated, 29-0 William Zepeda and the 26-6-2 Maxie Hughes went down on the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on Saturday. The scheduled 12 rounder was the principle occasion of a DAZN broadcast card. Both males took to buying and selling jabs in an in depth opening spherical earlier than they took to buying and selling buying and selling energy pictures. The excessive octane Zepeda turned up the strain within the second, pushing the motion and firing with regularity. By the third, Zepeda was properly accountable for the struggle, driving the motion and quickly breaking his man down.
At the very least, Hughes deserved credit score for being courageous and sport. His face a multitude, his physique being torn aside by crunching energy pictures, the Englishman stored combating the stronger and extra expert Zepeda. At the top of the fourth, nonetheless, Hughes’ nook correctly and mercifully referred to as the struggle. Although he’s in a crimson sizzling division, Zepeda now absolutely must be acknowledged as a power to be reckoned with. The downside is that the person has expertise all about him, from Shakur Stevenson, to Vasyl Lomachenko, to George Kambosos. Each of these males could be favored to defeat Zepeda within the ring.
Not that the person doesn’t deserve a shot at a few of the largest names within the division.
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