{"id":932409,"date":"2026-10-18T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932409\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:48:09","slug":"highlights-fundora-retains-title-with-dramatic-last-second-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932409\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights! Fundora Retains Title With Dramatic Last-Second KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sebastian Fundora successfully defended his WBC Light Middleweight title last night (Sat., Oct. 17, 2026) by defeating a very game opponent in the form of Ermal Hadribeaj.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And he did it in highly-dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Indeed, \u201cThe Towering Inferno\u201d delivered a literal last-second knockout over the Albanian, stopping him with a missile of a left hand with only one-second remaining in the final round of the 154-pound title fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. In doing so, he becomes the first man to ever defeat Hadribeaj.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out some of the highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With the win, Fundora improves his win streak to five straight, which includes four successful title defenses and gets him closer to a potential big-time fight against Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis. Ennis is the current WBA and WBO Light Middleweight champion, so a win for either man will get them one step closer to becoming the undisputed champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Vergil Ortiz is the interim WBC title holder, while Josh Kelly is the current IBF champion. Speaking of which, Kelly could be the only one standing in the way of Fundora getting the \u201cBoots\u201d fight next because there are talks of the two men throwing down in a fight at the end of the year. That said, \u201cThe Towering Inferno\u201d could very well complicate things after last night\u2019s dramatic finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Fundora successfully defended his WBC Light Middleweight title last night (Sat., Oct. 17, 2026) by defeating a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-932409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932409","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=932409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}