Tevin Farmer’s warning to Shakur Shakur Stevenson: Why Zepeda’s relentless pressure could be his fall

The Light WBC champion, Shakur Stevenson and William Zepeda, must begin negotiations by the sanctioning body with a pursuit offer scheduled for May 6 if they cannot make an agreement.

Shakur, 27, hopes to use this struggle to prepare for a unification match against Gervonta Davis. It could be mistaken because Zepeda has the style that would stick to Shakur’s light and hit him badly.

Warning of a farmer

Stevenson could not do the things that Tevin Farmer could do against Zepeda in his two fights because he has no fragile power and hands. Farmer warned Shakur On social media, Zepeda’s pressure was difficult to treat.

“Trust me when I tell you. Although (most) in the world I thought I won Zepeda twice, this departure will give everyone a big problem unless you remove it. I told you first,” said Tevin Farmer to Shakur X.

Shakur replied with: “Do you want to bet money for that?”

It may be impossible for Farmer to speak some sense at Shakur’s head because his victories about the gentle opposition that struggles for the last five years have made him excessively confident. Obviously, there is a limit for Stevenson’s false confidence, because we have already seen that he does not want any part to fight against Andy Cruz and Jadier Herrera.

When you see Shakur addressed to Josh Padley, Joe Cordina and Floyd Schofield instead of these two Cubans, he tells you that his confidence is false variety.

The reason that is likely to be interested in fighting Zepeda is that he knows that he needs at least a solid victory lightly so that he has the opportunity to fight the Davis tank. Stevenson’s performance against Edwin de los Santos was so poor that it has not been useful for him to use positive pressure to fight the tank.

Shakur’s recent victories over Padley and Harutyunyan were also useless for him because these two fighters were too poor to help him. To have the opportunity to fight Gervonta, Shakur needs Zepeda. It’s tank.

Stevenson needs a victory over William Zepeda to help him validate it in the eyes of the public, the networks, the promoters and the tank. However, it is not crazy enough to fight Andy Cruz or Jadier Herrera and to be exposed. He knows that he is a better opportunity against Zepeda, but he can know how difficult he made a mistake.

Disparity of power

The things that Farmer did against Zepeda, Stevenson cannot do because he does not have the power, size or hardness of Tevin. Farmer is a much stronger fighter than Shakur, and his punch resistance is excellent. The traits that Zepeda Farmer took in both fights would have exposed Shakur.

The punch that the farmer landed in Zepeda would have demolished Shakur. You can argue that Farmer is a better fighter than Shakur, but he does not get the credit because he is not a Braggart, does not publish 24 hours in X and has no Eddie Hearn speaking -in interviews.