Sebastian Furdora says his subsequent title protection of his WBC and WBO junior middleweight belts “ought to” be in opposition to Errol Spence. Followers have combined emotions about Fundora, 6’5 1/2″, preventing the burned-out-looking Spence as a result of he’s not carried out nicely since his automobile crash on October 10, 2019.
Is Spence Washed?
Errol has fought simply 3 times within the final 4 years since 2020, and he’s been out of the ring since struggling a ninth-round knockout in opposition to Terence Crawford on July 30, 2023. In that combat, Spence appeared like a damaged shell of the fighter he’d been years earlier.
Spence’s Exercise Since 2020
– Terence Crawford: TKO 9 Loss
– Yordenis Ugas: UD 12 win
– Danny Garcia: UD 12 win
His reflexes, velocity, and energy had been gone. He took a beating from Crawford, who was made to look higher than he truly was by how bodily depleted Spence appeared. Throughout the interview the combat, you can inform that Spence was not proper. He appeared like he had a mouth filled with marbles and was talking in sluggish movement.
Fundora (21-1-1, 13 KOs) and the previous unified welterweight champion Spence (28-1, 21 KOs) have been talked about as preventing subsequent since Sebastian’s victory over WBO 154-lb champion Tim Tszyu on March thirtieth earlier this 12 months.
Spence entered the ring on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas instantly following Fundora’s 12-round break up resolution in opposition to Tszyu, making it clear they might be preventing subsequent.
“That needs to be subsequent. I believe that’s going to be a very good combat with lots of motion. He throws lots of punches. I throw lots of punches,” stated Sebastian Fundora to BoxNation about him and Errol Spence preventing subsequent. “He’s a come-forward fighter. I think about myself that as nicely. It will be good for the Mexican followers in America.”
Fundora’s Alternative
Unsurprisingly, Fundora, 26, is happy about preventing Spence as a result of his possibilities of successful could be excessive. Followers would a lot favor to see Fundora tackle somebody extra convincing, like IBF 154-lb champion Bakhram Murtazaliev subsequent reasonably than Spence. At the very least that combat could be extra sporting.
Fundora is considered as a susceptible paper champion who will solely maintain onto his title so long as he’s matched rigorously. His title reign will finish if he fights somebody of high quality like Murtazaliev, Vergil Ortiz Jr, Serhii Bohachuk, or Israil Madrimov.
Fundora needs to be preventing a rematch in opposition to Brian Mendoza to avenge his seventh-round knockout loss on April 8, 2023. That was solely a 12 months in the past, and he’s not performed something to go within the course of preventing Mendoza once more.
