“That would be a career-defining fight for me at this point,” Mason said on The Porterway Podcast. “He has everything that somebody would wanna see me face. He’s strong on the front foot, a volume puncher, he’s using his head. It would definitely be a step up from any fight that I ever had before.”
Mason is correct about the step up. Zepeda presents an extreme version of the style that caused him trouble against Sam Noakes last November.
Noakes out-slugged Mason during stretches of their fight and applied constant pressure, forcing the younger fighter to get on his bike and box from the outside during the cham
