In at present’s introduced Latino Night time in Riyadh Season, William Zepeda will face former tremendous featherweight champion Tevin Farmer in a ten spherical battle on November sixteenth at The Venue in Riyadh.
The 2 fighters will probably be preventing on the undercard of the cruiserweight unification match between champions Chris Billian Smith and Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez.
Zepeda is taking warmth from boxing followers on social media for not preventing WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson on October twelfth. He reportedly couldn’t take the battle with Shakur as a result of his spouse was having a child, but he’s preventing only a month in a while November sixteenth in opposition to Farmer. Followers see this transfer as a duck by Zepeda.
If Zepeda shouldn’t be interested by preventing Shakur, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn must make different plans for February 2025, the month he’d hoped to make the Shakur-Zepeda battle.
Apparently, Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) and Farmer (33-6-1, 8 KOs) aren’t the Chief help bout on the cardboard. Golden Boy has saved that slot for a battle between former WBC and WBO mild welterweight champion Jose Ramirez (29-1, 18 KOs) and Arnold Barboza Jr. (30-0, 11 KOs).
Zepeda seems to have extra potential in his profession than the 32-year-old Ramirez, who has accomplished little or no since dropping his two titles to Josh Taylor by a 12-round unanimous determination three years in the past on Might 22, 2021.
Ramirez has fought thrice since, beating the light Jose Pedraza, Richard Commey, 37, and Rances Barthelemy. It doesn’t appear like Ramirez goes to have the ability to seize one other belt earlier than retiring as a result of he’s not shifting his profession alongside the way in which an growing older former champion ought to be after dropping their titles.
Mild welterweight contender, Arnold Barboza Jr. ought to battle Irish fighter Sean McComb in a rematch to clear up the controversy over his 10-round break up determination win earlier this yr on April twentieth on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn, New York. Many boxing followers had McComb profitable that battle and felt it was a theft.
Full card
– Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez vs Chris Billam-Smith
– Jose Ramirez vs Arnold Barboza
– William Zepeda vs Tevin Farmer
– Oscar Collazo vs Edwin Hernandez
– Oscar Duarte vs Kenneth Sims Jr
