William Zepeda carried out as most anticipated tonight in DAZN’s major occasion, utterly overwhelming a recreation Maxi Hughes for 4 rounds earlier than Hughes’ nook was pressured to cease the battle.
Zepeda (30-0, 26 KO), who’s identified for his stress and correct quantity punching, began fast however Hughes (26-7-2, 5 KO) was anticipating as a lot and began with a fast tempo himself, ready to counter as usually as he might whereas touchdown some well-timed photographs. The issue for Hughes, nonetheless, is that the tempo was one which Zepeda was utterly accustomed to, whereas that isn’t the case for Hughes and the shortly started to show itself out.
By the second spherical Hughes was already exhibiting issue maintaining with the tempo Zepeda was forcing and he couldn’t land something of significance to maintain Zepeda from coming to him with out a fear on the planet. By the third and fourth spherical Hughes was primarily spent, and subsequently needed to spend his time making an attempt to play protection as a lot as he might within the face of overwhelming offense.
By the top of Spherical 4 Hughes had taken pretty much as good of a beating as you see a variety of fighters take over 12, and with it being apparent at that time that he had nothing left to supply by the use of resistance, Hughes’ nook mercifully stopped the battle.
Undercard highlights
Floyd Schofield (17-0, 12 KOs) DQ-5 Esteuri Suero (13-2, 10 KO)
Eric Priest UD-10 Jose Sanchez (100-90, 99-91, 99-91)
Tristan Kalkreuth (13-1, 10 KO) TKO-2 Marquice Weston (15-3-1, 8 KO)
Joel Iriarte (1-0, 1 KO) TKO-2 Bryan Carguacundo (3-6-2, 0 KO)
