Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
Tevin did not look off, it was just that JoJo looked too much for him, given it was his best opponent since Pedraza, maybe.
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
Not that surprising a result. The DAZN announcers would always talk about Farmer like the 2nd coming of Mayweather but he was never remotely that good.
Diaz vs. Mickey Roman would be a nice first defense.
Diaz vs. Mickey Roman would be a nice first defense.
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
Farmer on Diaz Rematch: I'm Gonna Beat His Butt Next Time For Sure
Tevin Farmer has heard the chatter and seen the mock posters that junior lightweight world titlist Joseph Diaz Jr. and former three-division titleholder Abner Mares have posted on their social media pages as they try to talk up a potential showdown that surely would stoke interest among fans in Southern California, where both call home.
But Farmer has a message for Diaz: Not so fast.
“I’ve definitely seen it but (Diaz) is moving a little too fast. He needs to slow down,” Farmer told Boxing Scene. “We are gonna fight again. We have to. But I don’t feel like he wants to fight me again because he knows on Jan. 30 that he fought the worst Tevin Farmer and I was still able to win five rounds.”
“I’m not really worried about it,” Farmer said of the Diaz-Mares hype. “A contract is a contract. That’s what we signed. We’re definitely fighting again. I wanted to it right away. I talked to my lawyer (Traci Bransford) right after the fight and I told her to get on it. That guy is not better than me. He was better than me that night. I wasn’t as good as I am that night.
“So, we definitely want to do the rematch immediately. The minute we are able to get back to boxing we’re definitely doing the rematch and I will win.”
“It was definitely a bad cut. So whenever he’s ready to go then we’re ready to go, but my next fight will be for the title guaranteed -- unless they offer me a lot of money to step aside. Then it’s a different story,” Farmer said with a laugh. “Other than that, it’s the next fight. He’s not allowed to have another fight before he fights me.”
Lou DiBella, Farmer’s co-promoter with Hearn, said he believes the earliest the fight would happen is late summer but that there is a good chance it might not take place until later in the year, depending on how quickly boxing can get up and running again as well as how Diaz’s cut heals.
“There is nobody involved in this fight – not Tevin, me, Eddie, Diaz or (Diaz promoter) Golden Boy – that says we must rush this rematch,” DiBella said. “I would think that fight is not one of the first fights back when we can start doing shows again. Diaz had the injury and they fought at the end of January and you also have a lot of guys who haven’t fought since September. But Tevin has an iron-clad rematch clause.”
The Philadelphia-born Farmer, who now lives in Sicklerville, New Jersey, said he has been keeping in shape while much of the country is on lockdown. He goes to a gym 15 minutes from his house where he works out in private while another gym is in the process of being built in his basement.
All the while, Farmer said he is thinking about facing Diaz again and turning the tables after a poor performance in January.
“There were a lot of things that went wrong. There’s some personal stuff that the world will know about in the upcoming months,” Farmer said, declining to go into specifics when pressed. “I won the first round but even after the first round I didn’t feel like I was myself. You could see it and I hurt my right hand in the first round.”
While Farmer said he plans to hire a nutritionist to help make weight for the rematch he did not blame trouble with the weight for his loss.
“I got down to the weight; it’s just how I get down to the weight,” Farmer said. “I got to change the way I make the weight. I can make the weight easy, but I have to change the way I do it.”
After the fight, Farmer had to go to the hospital to get checked out as a precaution but was released a few hours later. Still, he was very disappointed in his performance.
“I couldn’t do anything. It was like I was stuck in quicksand,” Farmer said. “Usually, I’m on point, my legs are on point. They only thing I had was my cardio, which was great. But my body wasn’t reacting. I wasn’t breathing hard at all in the fight but my body didn’t react how I wanted it to react.”
Before the fight was made, Farmer and Diaz, who was a 2012 U.S. Olympian, clashed at a Canelo Alvarez news conference in Las Vegas. They had to be separated as tempers flared and bad blood raged. They carried it over through the buildup to the bout as they exchanged some harsh words. But Farmer said he emerged from the fight with respect for Diaz.
“JoJo Diaz is not a pushover. He can fight his butt off,” Farmer said. “But he had his best night and I had my worst night. I can’t wait to fight him again because if I can still win four or five rounds on my worst night against Joseph Diaz having his best night – oh, I just can’t wait (for the rematch). I’m so excited. But 100 percent I respect him. I’m proud of him.
“I lost fights early on in my career and I came back. I saw him lose a big fight to Gary Russell and then he comes back and beats a guy like me and I’m by far No. 1 in the division skill-wise and he was able to beat Tevin Farmer, so that’s really, really big. But I’m gonna beat his butt next time for sure.”
Farmer’s plan is reclaim his world title, make one defense and then move up to the talent-rich lightweight division that boasts standouts such as Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez Jr., Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia.
“I’m not sure yet,” Farmer said of who he wants to fight most a 135 pounds. “I’m thinking about JoJo Diaz after this coronavirus situation is over before I go up to lightweight, see what’s on the table and what we can make happen and fight for a world title. But now it’s me and JoJo Diaz again. It’s gonna be a hell of fight but I am still betting on myself.”
Tevin Farmer has heard the chatter and seen the mock posters that junior lightweight world titlist Joseph Diaz Jr. and former three-division titleholder Abner Mares have posted on their social media pages as they try to talk up a potential showdown that surely would stoke interest among fans in Southern California, where both call home.
But Farmer has a message for Diaz: Not so fast.
“I’ve definitely seen it but (Diaz) is moving a little too fast. He needs to slow down,” Farmer told Boxing Scene. “We are gonna fight again. We have to. But I don’t feel like he wants to fight me again because he knows on Jan. 30 that he fought the worst Tevin Farmer and I was still able to win five rounds.”
“I’m not really worried about it,” Farmer said of the Diaz-Mares hype. “A contract is a contract. That’s what we signed. We’re definitely fighting again. I wanted to it right away. I talked to my lawyer (Traci Bransford) right after the fight and I told her to get on it. That guy is not better than me. He was better than me that night. I wasn’t as good as I am that night.
“So, we definitely want to do the rematch immediately. The minute we are able to get back to boxing we’re definitely doing the rematch and I will win.”
“It was definitely a bad cut. So whenever he’s ready to go then we’re ready to go, but my next fight will be for the title guaranteed -- unless they offer me a lot of money to step aside. Then it’s a different story,” Farmer said with a laugh. “Other than that, it’s the next fight. He’s not allowed to have another fight before he fights me.”
Lou DiBella, Farmer’s co-promoter with Hearn, said he believes the earliest the fight would happen is late summer but that there is a good chance it might not take place until later in the year, depending on how quickly boxing can get up and running again as well as how Diaz’s cut heals.
“There is nobody involved in this fight – not Tevin, me, Eddie, Diaz or (Diaz promoter) Golden Boy – that says we must rush this rematch,” DiBella said. “I would think that fight is not one of the first fights back when we can start doing shows again. Diaz had the injury and they fought at the end of January and you also have a lot of guys who haven’t fought since September. But Tevin has an iron-clad rematch clause.”
The Philadelphia-born Farmer, who now lives in Sicklerville, New Jersey, said he has been keeping in shape while much of the country is on lockdown. He goes to a gym 15 minutes from his house where he works out in private while another gym is in the process of being built in his basement.
All the while, Farmer said he is thinking about facing Diaz again and turning the tables after a poor performance in January.
“There were a lot of things that went wrong. There’s some personal stuff that the world will know about in the upcoming months,” Farmer said, declining to go into specifics when pressed. “I won the first round but even after the first round I didn’t feel like I was myself. You could see it and I hurt my right hand in the first round.”
While Farmer said he plans to hire a nutritionist to help make weight for the rematch he did not blame trouble with the weight for his loss.
“I got down to the weight; it’s just how I get down to the weight,” Farmer said. “I got to change the way I make the weight. I can make the weight easy, but I have to change the way I do it.”
After the fight, Farmer had to go to the hospital to get checked out as a precaution but was released a few hours later. Still, he was very disappointed in his performance.
“I couldn’t do anything. It was like I was stuck in quicksand,” Farmer said. “Usually, I’m on point, my legs are on point. They only thing I had was my cardio, which was great. But my body wasn’t reacting. I wasn’t breathing hard at all in the fight but my body didn’t react how I wanted it to react.”
Before the fight was made, Farmer and Diaz, who was a 2012 U.S. Olympian, clashed at a Canelo Alvarez news conference in Las Vegas. They had to be separated as tempers flared and bad blood raged. They carried it over through the buildup to the bout as they exchanged some harsh words. But Farmer said he emerged from the fight with respect for Diaz.
“JoJo Diaz is not a pushover. He can fight his butt off,” Farmer said. “But he had his best night and I had my worst night. I can’t wait to fight him again because if I can still win four or five rounds on my worst night against Joseph Diaz having his best night – oh, I just can’t wait (for the rematch). I’m so excited. But 100 percent I respect him. I’m proud of him.
“I lost fights early on in my career and I came back. I saw him lose a big fight to Gary Russell and then he comes back and beats a guy like me and I’m by far No. 1 in the division skill-wise and he was able to beat Tevin Farmer, so that’s really, really big. But I’m gonna beat his butt next time for sure.”
Farmer’s plan is reclaim his world title, make one defense and then move up to the talent-rich lightweight division that boasts standouts such as Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez Jr., Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia.
“I’m not sure yet,” Farmer said of who he wants to fight most a 135 pounds. “I’m thinking about JoJo Diaz after this coronavirus situation is over before I go up to lightweight, see what’s on the table and what we can make happen and fight for a world title. But now it’s me and JoJo Diaz again. It’s gonna be a hell of fight but I am still betting on myself.”
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
Tevin Farmer: Joseph Diaz Jr trying to avoid contractually obliged rematch
When Joseph Diaz Jr beat Tevin Farmer to win the IBF junior lightweight title on Jan. 30, it was known then that Farmer had the right to exercise an immediate rematch clause in the contract, which is pretty standard for title fights if the challenger wins.
Farmer, 30, has indicated many times he’s doing just that, hoping to get some revenge for what he feels was an off-night. But the fight has not come together, and there have been multiple rumors and reports that Diaz, 27, is not particularly keen to rematch Farmer; not out of fear of facing him again, necessarily, but out of a feeling he has bigger fish to fry.
Farmer is again saying that Diaz, who recently signed an advisory deal with MTK Global, has attempted to avoid the rematch.
“Open for all interviews to expose this sucker on how him and his team (are) sending letters to the IBF, trying to avoid our rematch clause that was in the contract,” Farmer wrote on Instagram. “Asking the IBF can they skip over me. It’s not happening, sucker! I hope he knows what not honoring a contract can do.”
Diaz possibly trying to get an exception is tough, because it’s not that Farmer is a mandatory challenger, really, it’s a contractual clause. Farmer would have to agree to allow Diaz an interim fight, and it’s pretty clear he’s not interested in that, or at the very least hasn’t been offered the right amount of money to step aside for a bit.
In theory, Diaz (31-1, 15 KO) could be stripped of the IBF title if he doesn’t fight Farmer (30-5-1, 6 KO). I say “in theory” because it’s boxing and lots of things happen, but it’s a contract they both signed and going to be hard for anything else to happen if Diaz just won’t fight Farmer. For a while you could say the pandemic was making it hard to put cards together, but there are multiple shows all over the world every week now.
But we’ll see. This is all he said/he said at this point, though it’s worth keeping tabs on.
When Joseph Diaz Jr beat Tevin Farmer to win the IBF junior lightweight title on Jan. 30, it was known then that Farmer had the right to exercise an immediate rematch clause in the contract, which is pretty standard for title fights if the challenger wins.
Farmer, 30, has indicated many times he’s doing just that, hoping to get some revenge for what he feels was an off-night. But the fight has not come together, and there have been multiple rumors and reports that Diaz, 27, is not particularly keen to rematch Farmer; not out of fear of facing him again, necessarily, but out of a feeling he has bigger fish to fry.
Farmer is again saying that Diaz, who recently signed an advisory deal with MTK Global, has attempted to avoid the rematch.
“Open for all interviews to expose this sucker on how him and his team (are) sending letters to the IBF, trying to avoid our rematch clause that was in the contract,” Farmer wrote on Instagram. “Asking the IBF can they skip over me. It’s not happening, sucker! I hope he knows what not honoring a contract can do.”
Diaz possibly trying to get an exception is tough, because it’s not that Farmer is a mandatory challenger, really, it’s a contractual clause. Farmer would have to agree to allow Diaz an interim fight, and it’s pretty clear he’s not interested in that, or at the very least hasn’t been offered the right amount of money to step aside for a bit.
In theory, Diaz (31-1, 15 KO) could be stripped of the IBF title if he doesn’t fight Farmer (30-5-1, 6 KO). I say “in theory” because it’s boxing and lots of things happen, but it’s a contract they both signed and going to be hard for anything else to happen if Diaz just won’t fight Farmer. For a while you could say the pandemic was making it hard to put cards together, but there are multiple shows all over the world every week now.
But we’ll see. This is all he said/he said at this point, though it’s worth keeping tabs on.
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
This remind of me off the Wilder-Fury situation people putting auto rematch clauses and seem to forget the market doesn't demand a rematch so you in business aspect where DIaz-Farmer 2 is not a fan anyone asking for except Farmer team. I understand rematch clauses for non mandatories I just don't like it.
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
Joseph Diaz, Tevin Farmer Await Fight Date For Title Fight Rematch
Joseph Diaz and Tevin Farmer finally see eye-to-eye on a second fight.
Now all that is needed is a confirmed fight date.
Multiple sources have informed BS.com. that terms have been verbally agreed to for a junior lightweight title fight rematch between Diaz and Farmer. Previous concerns in being able to advance the fight have since been rectified, although the most pressing matter—securing a televised date on DAZN—remains the greatest hurdle, with the pairing up against a deadline.
Diaz (31-1, 15KOs) claimed the title with a rousing 12-round unanimous decision win over Philadelphia’s Farmer (30-5-1, 6KOs) this past January in Miami, Florida. The bout streamed live on DAZN preceding Super Bowl LIV which took place mere miles away.
Because the fight was a voluntary defense attempted by Farmer, there existed an allowable rematch clause which was immediately enforced. Event promoter Eddie Hearn insisted at the time that plans for a rematch were tentatively targeted for mid-spring, only for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to shut down the sport—and most other forms of live entertainment—for nearly three months.
Once the sport resumed, Farmer and his team sough the rematch they felt was deserved, not to mention contractually obliged.
An issue arise which was further magnified by the pandemic wiping out the spring schedule. Diaz inherited a mandatory title defense versus Russia’s Shavkatadzhon Rakhimov (15-0, 12KOs), who was confirmed as the number-one contender in the IBF rankings following an investigation surrounding his 8th round knockout over Azinga Fuzile last September.
A post-pandemic ruling from the IBF provided an unintentional loophole as it relates to a Diaz-Farmer rematch. The New Jersey-based sanctioning body ordered the fight on July 7, though with a six-month time frame for negotiations before a purse bid would be called on January 14, 2021.
The unprecedented move provides wiggle room for Diaz to manage a voluntary defense—namely his contractually-owed second fight with Farmer—provided the winner immediately face Rakhimov.
Diaz has since aligned himself with powerful managerial conglomerate MTK Global, while at the time still figuring out his next move. The 2012 U.S. Olympian from South El Monte, California has since come around the prospect of once again facing Farmer.
Now they just have to figure out a way to do so with the title still being at stake.
Failure to secure the fight within the IBF deadline could result in Diaz being stripped of the title—perhaps the lesser of two evils, as opposed to being taken to court for avoiding a contractually-bound second fight with Farmer. Depending on the date that can be secured for the fight, a conversation will have to take place with the IBF to determine if the winner of such a fight can guarantee in a writing an immediate mandatory title defense versus Rakhimov.
Farmer made four successful defenses of the IBF junior lightweight strap he claimed in a dominant August 2018 points win over Billy Dib on the road in Australia. Beginning with that fight came a stretch where Farmer fought five times in 11 months, with wins over challengers James Tennyson, Francisco Fonseca, Jono Carroll and Guillaume Frenois all coming in a nine-month clip.
Joseph Diaz and Tevin Farmer finally see eye-to-eye on a second fight.
Now all that is needed is a confirmed fight date.
Multiple sources have informed BS.com. that terms have been verbally agreed to for a junior lightweight title fight rematch between Diaz and Farmer. Previous concerns in being able to advance the fight have since been rectified, although the most pressing matter—securing a televised date on DAZN—remains the greatest hurdle, with the pairing up against a deadline.
Diaz (31-1, 15KOs) claimed the title with a rousing 12-round unanimous decision win over Philadelphia’s Farmer (30-5-1, 6KOs) this past January in Miami, Florida. The bout streamed live on DAZN preceding Super Bowl LIV which took place mere miles away.
Because the fight was a voluntary defense attempted by Farmer, there existed an allowable rematch clause which was immediately enforced. Event promoter Eddie Hearn insisted at the time that plans for a rematch were tentatively targeted for mid-spring, only for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to shut down the sport—and most other forms of live entertainment—for nearly three months.
Once the sport resumed, Farmer and his team sough the rematch they felt was deserved, not to mention contractually obliged.
An issue arise which was further magnified by the pandemic wiping out the spring schedule. Diaz inherited a mandatory title defense versus Russia’s Shavkatadzhon Rakhimov (15-0, 12KOs), who was confirmed as the number-one contender in the IBF rankings following an investigation surrounding his 8th round knockout over Azinga Fuzile last September.
A post-pandemic ruling from the IBF provided an unintentional loophole as it relates to a Diaz-Farmer rematch. The New Jersey-based sanctioning body ordered the fight on July 7, though with a six-month time frame for negotiations before a purse bid would be called on January 14, 2021.
The unprecedented move provides wiggle room for Diaz to manage a voluntary defense—namely his contractually-owed second fight with Farmer—provided the winner immediately face Rakhimov.
Diaz has since aligned himself with powerful managerial conglomerate MTK Global, while at the time still figuring out his next move. The 2012 U.S. Olympian from South El Monte, California has since come around the prospect of once again facing Farmer.
Now they just have to figure out a way to do so with the title still being at stake.
Failure to secure the fight within the IBF deadline could result in Diaz being stripped of the title—perhaps the lesser of two evils, as opposed to being taken to court for avoiding a contractually-bound second fight with Farmer. Depending on the date that can be secured for the fight, a conversation will have to take place with the IBF to determine if the winner of such a fight can guarantee in a writing an immediate mandatory title defense versus Rakhimov.
Farmer made four successful defenses of the IBF junior lightweight strap he claimed in a dominant August 2018 points win over Billy Dib on the road in Australia. Beginning with that fight came a stretch where Farmer fought five times in 11 months, with wins over challengers James Tennyson, Francisco Fonseca, Jono Carroll and Guillaume Frenois all coming in a nine-month clip.
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Re: Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz - January 30, 2020
IBF have ordered Diaz to fight Russian Shavkatadzhon Rakhimov (15-0, 12 KOs).