Tune Farmer fans are angry, Believe it was robbed. Saturday night in his fight at The Venue in Riyadh in a 10-round split decision against lightweight contender William Zepeda (32-0, 27 KOs).
Kisan’s followers continue to mention his fourth-round flash knockdown of Zepeda, using it as the reason he deserved the win. They don’t mention that this was the only round that Farmer actually looked to win, and that he was worked to the body and head by Zepeda’s volume punching.
If a person only saw a short flash knockdown clip on social media that went viral, it’s understandable why they think he was robbed and deserved a win over Zepeda. This is not the reality of combat. Zepeda dominated every round with volume and holding peasants for survival purposes.
Zepeda Overwhelmed Peasant
Farmer fans need to soak up this little statistic. Zepeda threw 1087 punches And landed at 527 at a 48% connect rate. Not only was Zepeda landing a large number of punches in each round, he literally couldn’t miss.
What made it even more important is that he was throwing power shots, many of them to Farmer’s body, and because of that the Philadelphia native had nothing left by the sixth round.
Farmers’ sea lamprey strategy fails.
Those bullets to Zepeda’s body were kryptonite to Farmer, weakening him to the point where he held him as one. Sea lamprey Hanging on to fish. Kisan did his best with his pot shots, but couldn’t match the work rate or power of Zepeda’s shots. It’s unclear if Farmer’s team’s game plan for the fight was to continuously click to stop Zepeda’s offense or if he came up with it on his own. Either way, it was a failure.
If Farmer wanted to win, he needed to punch because it was obvious he couldn’t handle the heat Zepeda was putting on him.
So he lost. Had the judges scored the rounds based on clinching, Farmer would have won because he topped Zepeda in every round in that category.
It’s not the end of the world for Zepeda. He could bounce back from that loss if he moves back down to super featherweight, but at this point it’s clear he’s too weak to compete at lightweight. If he stays in the weight class, he will continue to be used as a b-side opponent to help prepare fighters for Shakur Stevenson, which is why he got the gig against Zepeda. He is a knock-off version of Shakur, but braver, more powerful and not a runner.
In fear of de la Hoya Zapida
“I had a point for William. He’s got an unabashed style. He keeps punching. He punches like no other fighter,” said William Zepeda after his win over Tevin Farmer on Saturday at Latino Night in Riyadh. Oscar de la Hoya told IFLTV.
“Tune is a great fighter. He said to me after the fight, ‘Look, I want to come back and fight for you. Sure, Teune Farmer will be champion one day.’
If Farmer is going to be champion “one day,” it had better be soon because he turns 35 in July, and he’s lost his last two fights. De La Hoya needs to convince Farmer to return to 130 or drop to 126 if he can make weight.
Farmer will never be a world champion at 135 because he can’t punch as hard, as we saw against Zepeda. He is on his way to a world title.
Now that the fight is over, Zepeda is ready to challenge WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson and overwhelm him with punches like he did against Farmer. Shakur’s work rate is extremely low compared to Zepeda’s.
For example, in Shakur’s fight against Edwin de los Santos on November 16 last year, he only 297 punches And landed 81. Now, compare that to the 1087 punches Zepeda threw against the farmer. Zepeda fielded 527 of those shots. You see what I mean. This probably isn’t going to end well for Shakur.
