Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-10-20, pretty good fight between Tevin Farmer and James Tennyson: it gets three stars./div>The Ibf super-Fw champion Tevin Farmer entered this fight with a professional record of 26-4-1 (5 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.17 super featherweight in the world. He suffered his last defeat in 2012, against Jose Pedraza, but then he has won 20 consecutive fights beating Arturo Santos Reyes, Kenichi Ogawa (Kenichi Ogawa vs Tevin Farmer) and Billy Dib in his last three (Tevin Farmer vs Billy Dib).
His opponent, James Tennyson, has a boxing record of 22-2-0 (18 KOs=82%) and he entered as the No.14 in the same weight class. He lost to Ryan Walsh in 2016 but then he has won six bouts beating Arnoldo Solano and Martin Joseph Ward in 2018 (Martin Joseph Ward vs James Tennyson). Farmer vs Tennyson is valid for the IBF World super featherweight title (Farmer’s first defense); undercard of Demetrius Andrade vs Walter Kautondokwa. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2018-10-20
Where: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Division: super featherweight (130 lbs, 59.0 kg)
Title: IBF World super featherweight title
Result: Click here to show the fight’s result
Tevin Farmer def. James Tennyson (KO at 1:44, round 5)
Farmer’s previous fight: Tevin Farmer vs Billy Dib
Tennyson’s previous fight: Martin Joseph Ward vs James Tennyson
Farmer’s next fight: Tevin Farmer vs Francisco Fonseca
Farmer vs Tennyson full fight video:
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Official video
Farmer is terrific in close range something not many boxers can pull off – employing the shoulder rolls and good bobbing and weaving to slip punches and giving few of his own without being the one that’s pressing forward most of the time.
Stories like this one are the main reasons that I still love the sport of boxing, you don’t have to be the greatest or have the best start, to leave a mark in the sport, Bernard Hopkins, the great Juan Manuel Marquez and even the 152-21-9 Henry Armstrong lost their pro debuts and look how their careers turned out, Farmer is definitely on his way.