William Zepeda is aiming for a fight with IBF lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko.
The Ukrainian, a former four-belt - but not undisputed - champion, beat George Kambosos Jr. to become champion once again, and he is yet to line up a fight.
Zepeda next fights Giovanni Cabrera next, live on DAZN on July 6. The winner of the fight should be in the frame for a potential title fight later in the year.
Talking to BoxingScene, he spoke about his options, saying: “Right now for the WBA [title] it’s Gervonta [Davis], for the WBC there’s Shakur [Stevenson], for the IBF now there’s Lomachenko, well they are already big names that I mean for whichever side you move, you are not going to look for the most difficult or the easiest one because they all have their degree of difficulty, so right now my team and Golden Boy are already planning which piece is going to move, because that is also important.”
He added: “I've always said that Lomachenko is one of the boxers that is a pleasure to watch, for those of us who like boxing, what boxing is, it's a delight to watch his fights - because of the things he does, the movements, how he moves in the ring.
“I really consider that since I started boxing, when I was a kid, I saw boxers of his caliber, who had stood out in amateur boxing and now at this level it would be an honor, a pride to share the ring with him. With a fighter like him, that's what we have always worked for, to be fighting with the best, but Lomachenko is undoubtedly respectable.”
Of Stevenson, he said: “Shakur is a young fighter, a fighter that we are going to follow, if he also goes up in weight at some point, we are similar in age, our bodies are going to change and maybe it won't be at 135 [lbs], maybe it will be 140, but I'm sure that in the future that fight will happen.”
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