Sebastian Furdora says his subsequent title protection of his WBC and WBO junior middleweight belts “ought to” be towards 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 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 towards 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 have been gone. He took a beating from Crawford, who was made to look higher than he truly was by how bodily depleted Spence appeared. Through the interview the combat, you can inform that Spence was not proper. He seemed like he had a mouth stuffed 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 yr.
Spence entered the ring on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas instantly following Fundora’s 12-round cut up choice towards Tszyu, making it clear they might be preventing subsequent.
“That ought to be subsequent. I believe that’s going to be a great combat with a whole lot of motion. He throws a whole lot of punches. I throw a whole lot of punches,” mentioned Sebastian Fundora to BoxNation about him and Errol Spence preventing subsequent. “He’s a come-forward fighter. I contemplate 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 probabilities of profitable can be excessive. Followers would a lot want to see Fundora tackle somebody extra convincing, like IBF 154-lb champion Bakhram Murtazaliev subsequent quite than Spence. At the least that combat can be extra sporting.
Fundora is considered as a weak 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 ought to be preventing a rematch towards Brian Mendoza to avenge his seventh-round knockout loss on April 8, 2023. That was solely a yr in the past, and he’s not carried out something to go within the course of preventing Mendoza once more.
