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Chordale Booker regarded uncomfortable throughout yesterday’s face-off for his combat towards WBC and WBO 154-lb champion Sebastian Fundora this Saturday, March twenty second, for his or her 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT occasion, stay on PBC on Prime Video. The ringwalks for Fundora vs. Booker can be round 10:30 p.m. ET / 7:40 p.m. PT.
Chordale (23-1, 11 KOs) stored smiling every time he was requested to face off, and Fundora (21-1-1, 13 KOs) needed to encourage him to get into character for this. You might inform that Chordale sees these things for what it’s. It’s publicity. He’s not the kind to try to psych out his opponents by mean-mugging them like many fighters are inclined to do. That stuff doesn’t work, however insecure boxers typically use it.
A lot of the shine from Fundora’s upset victory over WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu final March has disappeared after the Aussie was obliterated in three brutal rounds by IBF 154-lb champion Bakhram Murtazaliev final October.
In distinction, Fundora took 12 grueling rounds to defeat Tszyu by a cut up resolution in a massacre. Sebastian’s victory was aided by a deep scalp lower that Tim sustained in spherical two after an unintended elbow hit him.
Boxing followers don’t know the way good Fundora is as a result of Tszyu and Erickson Lubin are his solely notable victories throughout his nine-year skilled profession. Earlier than Fundora’s upset victory over Tszyu, he’d been knocked out within the seventh spherical by Brian Mendoza on April 8, 2023.
“Rocky-Style”
“I think it was a good fight for what it was. I think Tim Tszyu’s mind wasn’t there, honestly,” stated Sebastian Fundora throughout yesterday’s media exercise, discussing his final opponent, Tszyu’s current loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev.
“We do watch a lot of boxing,” stated Fundora when requested if he studied a whole lot of tape on Chordale Booker’s previous fights. “We all know what works and doesn’t work. We’re in that ring a day after or a few hours after we watch these fights.
“We see what works and what doesn’t work for us. We see what’s real in the sport. It’s hard. This is not for the faint of heart. This is definitely a Rocky-style training camp,” stated Fundora in regards to the exhausting work he put in getting ready for his title protection towards Booker.
Primer frente a frente de Sebastian Fundora y Chordale Booker
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