Zepeda-Hughes Final Press Conference

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Photo: Golden Boy / Cris Esqueda

Undefeated knockout machine William “El Camarón” Zepeda (29-0, 25 KOs) and his opponent, former IBO beltholder Maxi “Maximus” Hughes (26-6-2, 5 KOs) hosted a press conference today in Las Vegas. They collide on Saturday in a 12-round IBF and WBA lightweight eliminator at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and broadcast around the world on DAZN.

William Zepeda: “When I was younger, kids around me would ask when will you fight in Vegas to make fun of me. Well, now I can answer them. I’m fighting in Vegas this Saturday. I know Maxi Hughes is a great opponent, and that’s why we’re fighting him. And I’m just thankful with my teammates, Carlos Duarte, my team, my father, all my people from Jiquipilco where I trained every single day for this fight. I want to thank Golden Boy, I want to thank Eric and thank everybody for being here. I am ready for everyone in the lightweight division!

Maxi Hughes: “So very happy to be here. I’m here because of merit. The IBF have ordered me and William to fight, so you know, both of us are here on merit. Because we are the best next people in mind going forward. You know, William, we’ve watched him, we know what he’s about. And we’ve shown him that respect in our preparation. My team down here have put the working day in, day out, and on Saturday night, we’ll get that win and be a step closer to a world title.”

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  • Let’s shrimp!!!!!
    Camaron is forced to win by ko
    Winning by decision won’t help to what we expect from him

    With lot of discipline in the training camp always going for an extra mile , camaron should be ready to ko inside 8 rounds
    If so Oscar de la Hoya might get him a fight for a world title being Shakur stevenson his probably opponent in his next fight

  • If shrimp wins by decision i will be disappointed and his fight against Shakur or any other fight for a world title will have to wait longer

    So let’s gooooooo shrimppppp let’s ko Hughes in 8 rounds

    Yessssssss babyyyyyyyyy

  • I have been watching on YouTube some zepeda training clips and he has lots of stamina that combined with his very deep training plus his high volume punches it should be a bomb for this fight

    All the punches in the whole fight of Shakur VS de los Santos are equal to the punches that zepeda throws in just one round not to mention his aim and accuracy while attacking

  • Zepeda it’s not a hard hitter his 25 ko out of 29 fights, coming from his relentless attack he just worn out his opponents slowly

  • Last thing:

    Zepeda it’s not the boxer who makes too much drama in the press conference to sell the fight
    He is humble and respectful and he sells his fights based on his quality on the ring not on his mouth

      • I will I will killa
        I was just so excited after watch the fight is this Saturday

    • To much coffee an monster juice Carlos. Your on a role! I agree that Camarón is more of an accumulation puncher than a one punch K.O fighter. He reminds me a young pre-Poison Jones Barrera from a different stance.

  • But I don’t know …. I enjoy more watching the fights on tv than watching the fights in live

    In live you just see the people stand up and because one boxer was knock out and did not even the see how or what happened

    On tv you see the replay 4 times and you eat and drink what you want

    In live you don’t want to go for another beer or to the bathroom because there lot of people in your way there

    By the time you go for another beer the fight is done

  • If Zepeda loses, this Carlos and all Mexico would come with a truck load of excuses, that is one thing Mexicans and The British have in common, their ability to find excuses.

    • I don’t see any excuses because you know the excuses before the fights and I don’t see nothing here so it’s just matter of time and see if camaron capitalizes this opportunity with a ko
      And he has to ko in order to impressed

  • I can’t believe that people get worked up at Shakur vs anybody.
    I wish the dude meant it when he said he’s retired.
    Wonder what would happen if Kambosos were fighting Zepeda?
    The great judges of his fight vs Hughes had him winning.
    If Kambosos is the big winner, he should be fighting Zepeda.
    Hughes at least gets an eliminator fight vs a top lightweight.

  • Hughes is being rewarded for the bad decision against K-7 (can’t spell his name) How else would he be in a elimination fight coming off of a loss?

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