After a fracas at Friday’s weigh-in, WBC #2 super lightweight Jose “Chon” Zepeda (35-2, 27 KOs) needed just 1:45 to get revenge against Josue “The Prodigy” Vargas (19-2, 9 kOs) on Saturday night at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Zepeda brutally dropped Vargas two times to retain his WBC silver belt and is now positioned for a world title opportunity in 2022. Zepeda’s brother and trainer was banned from ringside after the weigh-in melee.
“I was ready. I was 100 percent ready, and I told him in the press conference there’s levels to this. He was the one who wanted to fight me. I just accepted the fight, and it showed today that boxing is not a game in there. There’s levels to this.”
“I told him, and he probably knew I hit hard. I don’t think he recovered after that shot.”
“After the way he went down, I didn’t think {he’d recover}. He probably was going to head up, but he was going to be wobbly on his feet, and that’s what happened and I was able to finish him.”
“I’m 32 years old, and I’m in my prime. I want the WBC world title and all the belts, to be honest. I’m ready for it. I showed today I’m ready for the WBC world title.”
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Vargas stated “He caught me with a good left hand, and I tried to recover, but I think I got up too fast. That’s what happened. Overall, I’m OK. I’m good. I’m healthy. We’re not stopping from here. It’s on to the next.”
“I learned from my disqualification loss, and now I learned from my second loss. It’s part of the sport. The greatest athletes in boxing have losses. I’m not ashamed of myself. I’ll be back stronger, for sure.”
Wow. That was fast. Outstanding.
Well damn.
Vargas brought his mouth to the fight, but forgot to bring his chin.
With Rolando Romero being investigated for multiple sexual assaults, maybe we can now see Zepeda stepping in & fighting Tank Davis.
I love it when a shit-talker gets embarrassed.
Vargas “Im not ashamed. A lot of great fighter’s have lost etc…” You should be ashamed-not because you lost but because of all the shit you talked and couldn’t back any of it up. Losing’s ok, being an asshole isn’t.
Nice win for Zepeda.
My boy will be back & beat him into retirement.
Who saw Zepeda vs Ramirez? I heard it was close. Looks like he has enough left in the tank for any 140lb fighters or rising 135lb fighters.
Yes he put up a good fight but he was fighting scare against Ramirez.
Damn! Young cat with hyped up big mouth got brutalized and humbled on his knees, dirty! That’s a blueprint of romero vs tank if it happens since fight is now on jeopardy!
“This is NYC, your a Cali boy.” Wow Vargas talked so much, I think he believed his own hype.
What a bochorno !
– Bochorno = “embarrassment”.
zepeda is one tough guy hope he fights again good luck on future fights