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Sebastian Furdora says his subsequent title protection of his WBC and WBO junior middleweight belts “should” 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 properly since his automotive 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 really was by how bodily depleted Spence appeared. Through the interview the combat, you would 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-Cell Area in Las Vegas instantly following Fundora’s 12-round cut up choice in opposition to Tszyu, making it clear they’d be preventing subsequent.
“That should be next. I think that’s going to be a good fight with a lot of action. He throws a lot of punches. I throw a lot of punches,” mentioned Sebastian Fundora to BoxNation about him and Errol Spence preventing subsequent. “He’s a come-forward fighter. I consider myself that as well. It would be good for the Mexican fans 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 relatively than Spence. A minimum of that combat could be extra sporting.
Fundora is seen as a susceptible paper champion who will solely maintain onto his title so long as he’s matched fastidiously. His title reign will finish if he fights somebody of high quality like Murtazaliev, Vergil Ortiz Jr, Serhii Bohachuk, or Israil Madrimov.
Fundora must 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 accomplished something to go within the route of preventing Mendoza once more.
