{"id":548512,"date":"2026-03-18T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:24:08","slug":"sebastian-fundora-sees-keith-thurman-as-just-another-fight-ahead-of-wbc-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548512\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Fundora Sees Keith Thurman as ‘Just Another Fight’ Ahead of WBC Title Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Keith Thurman looks at his contest with Sebastian Fundora as a chance to enter the Boxing Hall of Fame<\/a>, the reigning WBC super welterweight champion sees it \u201cas just another fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KOs) defends his belt on March 28 following a dominant seventh-round retirement of Tim Tszyu in a rematch last June. It\u2019s arguably his highest-profile battle, tied with his first bout with Tszyu after a split-decision win in March 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just looking at Keith as another fight,\u201d Fundora said in a release sent to Boxing Social. \u201cI\u2019ve fought a reigning champion and former champions. So I just have to see it as another fight. I have to go make the ring mine and make this fight mine as well. I\u2019m the younger guy, and I\u2019m the champion. Lots of things favor me in this fight. You can\u2019t just rely on that, of course. But I\u2019m extremely confident and more mature at this point in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thurman (31-1, 23 KOs) comes into the bout<\/a> after another year of inactivity but did make easy work of Australia\u2019s Brock Jarvis with a third-round stoppage in Sydney. Prior to that, Thurman had just one solitary contest since his first career defeat to Manny Pacquiao in 2019, a wide decision victory against Mario Barrios in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to expect the best Keith Thurman to come out,\u201d Fundora explained. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re training for. Whether he brings it or not, that\u2019s not up to me, but I\u2019ll be ready. He looked good in his last fight, but I think my skills are better. That\u2019s why we\u2019re fighting. I\u2019m planning to go in there and defend my title successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve fought a lot of good fighters, and I\u2019m just seeing Thurman as another fight. This would be a good win against another accomplished former champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fundora-Thurman headlines a Prime Video pay-per-view from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Keith Thurman looks at his contest with Sebastian Fundora as a chance to enter the Boxing Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,11464,2784,85],"class_list":["post-548512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-keith-thurman","tag-sebastian-fundora","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}