Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 15 Mar 2024, 18:52
Tough ask against Zepeda. Think he'll get shellacked. The output of Zepeda is something else
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Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 15 Mar 2024, 18:57
Can’t see past Zepeda myself, his engine is so good & just feel as though his pressure will be a bit too much for Maxi, hope I’m wrong though.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 15 Mar 2024, 21:07
Maxeh Oooze.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 00:49
zepeda is ridiculously fit averages 100+ punches a round (128 vs jo diaz, the highest ever for compubox) throwing them heavy and without ever looking like he's slowing
hard to see maxi keeping up with him and i dont think maxi be able to grab enough rounds to outpoint him. tough fight, for me the bigger question is if maxi will last 12.
hard to see maxi keeping up with him and i dont think maxi be able to grab enough rounds to outpoint him. tough fight, for me the bigger question is if maxi will last 12.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 03:30
Maxi has improved. With someone like zepeda you would think giving him some early wallops would put him in check but I've seen him taking clean punches which shake him to his boots and he responds by recovering quickly and upping his output. It's a hard ask to outbox him for 12 as his style is designed to overcome boxers. Serious firepower is needed and we know Maxi doesn't possess that.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 03:55
Unfortunately for Hughes, Zepeda appears to be a genuine world class operator .. I still unsure if that's elite, but appears to be good enough to be giving a good argument at that level.
Zepeda bashes opponents up. Not an opponent Hughes would have had on his preferred opponent of choice I'm sure.
Zepeda before the 3rd.
Zepeda bashes opponents up. Not an opponent Hughes would have had on his preferred opponent of choice I'm sure.
Zepeda before the 3rd.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 22:28
Maxi about to get pasted badly
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 22:49
My god that was a brutal beatdown
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 22:59
love zepeda, insane work rate on the guy, dude just wants to throw hands, he woulda pounded kambosos too
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:03
and dude's nickname is 'the shrimp' because he burns easily 
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:03
He has a snowball’s chance.
Live zepeda
Live zepeda
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:05
408 punches in 4 rounds, over 100 a round yet again. he might have the craziest work rate of anyone active since i started watching decades ago, other fighters with big volume are usually arm punchers, but zep digs into his shots and can keep doing it 12 rounds
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:10
Shows how tough Jo Jo Diaz is. He took 12 rounds of that and even hurt Zepeda
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:11
zep threw 128 punches a round in that one, crazy!
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:12
zep threw 128 punches a round in that one, crazy! the round he got rocked, he was right back to beating jo jo up. this guy has some special kind of gas tank on him, simply does not tire. maybe a standout endurance athlete in another life. it's like he unlocked the cheat code on knockout kings or something
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 00:20
I'd love to see him in with Loma, Andy Cruz or Gervonta Davis
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 05:27
Great corner work pulling Maxi out there, that was painful to watch. Zepeda just never stops throwing punches and he doesn't miss many either. The look on Hughes' wife's face at the end of the fourth said it all.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 06:24
I thought they should have thrown the towel in during the 4th. It was real painful to watch and we know Maxi doesn’t have the one punch power to turn the fight.
Hughes had big issues getting into the US. Arrived in Vegas, was then deported by to the U.K. due to Visa issues. Had to sort it out and did it in Befast a few days after arriving back in the U.K. and then had to fly back to Vegas from Dublin late in the day. Awful prep really.
https://www.BS.com/maxi-hughes ... ht--182182
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 09:40
that is possibly the worst pre-fight prep ever, poor sod. Must have been up and down throughout the week.. Nice corner to pull him out. Wonder who he fights next, some good domestic fights perhaps?maverick23 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024, 06:24I thought they should have thrown the towel in during the 4th. It was real painful to watch and we know Maxi doesn’t have the one punch power to turn the fight.
Hughes had big issues getting into the US. Arrived in Vegas, was then deported by to the U.K. due to Visa issues. Had to sort it out and did it in Befast a few days after arriving back in the U.K. and then had to fly back to Vegas from Dublin late in the day. Awful prep really.
https://www.BS.com/maxi-hughes-deported ... ht--182182
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 09:44
The IBO has been good to Maxi, helped him secure some late career paydays, hopefully he is financially secure now.
He should have cleared half a million in the last few years, fingers crossed he hasn't spent too much!
He should have cleared half a million in the last few years, fingers crossed he hasn't spent too much!
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 10:22
yeah, he does not strike me as wasteful, was still working full time as a tradesman (plasterer iirc) until a couple of years ago.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 10:24
im holding off watching last nights card as back up in case the Whyte show is not aired.
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 12:42
Bugger me ! Zepeda throws an avalanche of punches...and they ain't pitty patty either.
Hughes did well to stay on his feet but no sane person would have let Maxi out for the 5th round. Hughes tried his best, but Zepeda is a human tornado
Hughes did well to stay on his feet but no sane person would have let Maxi out for the 5th round. Hughes tried his best, but Zepeda is a human tornado
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 15:59
Zepeda is class. Although when my wife pronounces his name in her Yorkshire accent he sounds like a very dodgy person...
Re: Anyone give Maxi Hughes any chance tomorrow?
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 16:11
If that guy has a proper chin on him he'll.be virtually unbeatable.
Doesn't matter who you are, if you can't hurt him enough to stop him, or at least make him wary of throwing, then he's just gonna wear you down to the point of exhaustion.
Some guy is gonna have to spark him clean or hurt him bad enough for the ref to jump in as I can't see him losing on points
Doesn't matter who you are, if you can't hurt him enough to stop him, or at least make him wary of throwing, then he's just gonna wear you down to the point of exhaustion.
Some guy is gonna have to spark him clean or hurt him bad enough for the ref to jump in as I can't see him losing on points