Who won: Shakur Stevenson or William Zepeda

I was at the fight. I stopped scoring after about five rounds because it was totally obvious that Zepeda was headed for a loss. He had a little bit of zip on his punches in the first few rounds and it looked like he might run it close or even pull off an upset. Then he started losing steam and, although he kept throwing, they were exclusively useless punches that rarely landed clean. Meanwhile, Shakur was totally calm and relaxed after settling in and continuously sitting down on hard, clean shots to the head and body although he never was that active. Zepeda's offense posed zero physical threat to Shakur by the time the championship rounds rolled around.

The judges were right and the clowns in the RBR thread badly want to fit in with each other rather than show genuine judgement.

 

Stevenson by 9-3 or 8-4 at worse.

Volume doesn't mean a lot if most of it didn't land. Boxing is about clean effective punching and I saw most of the clean effective punching from Stevenson, especially after round 5. Zepeda didn't adjust and just threw the same shots over and over again. He didn't have the power to punch through the guard and didn't have enough variation to break through. Against a fighter like Stevenson, you need an overhand shot and Zepeda rarely threw it.

 

The fact this is even a discussion is wild to me, Shakur clearly and easily won that fight.

 

Nobody serious has Zepeda winning. It's too ridiculous.

 

Yes

 

If you scored thus for Zepeda You are either full of shakur hate, or you know F all about boxing

Seriously. It was pretty obvious who won

 

The official scorecards were absurdly wide.

It was a close fight overall, with Zepeda winning most of the early rounds, and Stevenson doing better in the later rounds.

Zepeda seemed to lose the power in his punches later in the fight. He hurt Stevenson a couple of times earlier, but his punches were ineffective in the later rounds.

 

Facts!

 

Didn't watch it. I'd only watch Shakur if I wanted to go to sleep early.

 

I guess guys like Ali, Benitez, and Locche were just bums.

 

[QUOTE="Ioakeim Tzortzakis, post: 23465759, member: 123288" his defence is mostly restricted to a dumb and skilless high guard with some instinctive head movement here and there.
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I feel like a lot of boxers nowadays have a mediocre high guard defense with minimal head movement. Why and when did that start? Is there a secret Arthur Abraham cult that's been performing some sort of psyop to convince people that fighting like that is a good idea?

 

Well having just watched it I say stevenson won but the judges still need to be blamed for their scores!

One of them had 1 round for zepeda, the others had 2.

1 round???

I'm just happy that stevenson won either way but had this fight been close, zepeda would not have had a chance to get it. American judges and their cash cow hopes. Disgusting.

 

This is actually my scoring criteria for every fight. It becomes tricky when Shakur isn't actually one of the two boxers in the fight but I make it work. I usually score those draws unless one of them has a loss to Shakur on their record, then I score the fight in favor of the other guy so I can say Shakur's win aged poorly.