We\u2019re now only a couple of weeks away from the March 28 super welterweight title defense between reigning titleholder Sebastian Fundora defending against challenger Keith Thurman. Both fighters have just appeared for a virtual press conference and to answer media questions, and here is some of what both had to say with the full video in the link at the top.<\/p>\n
Fundora on Thurman saying he\u2019s never faced a fighter as experienced as him<\/p>\n
\u201cOGs aren\u2019t really in the sport no more, you know. So once you get old in this sport you shouldn\u2019t be boxing no more, that\u2019s what I think. but I fought a lot of fighters. I just see Keith Thurman as another one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fundora on why a fight against Xander Zayas didn\u2019t come together<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t pick the fights. These guys, the promoters and PBC, they pick them for me. It is what it is. He has two belts right now, I have a belt, we can still unify. It never happened but that fight can still happen so I\u2019m not worried about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fundora on how he thinks his skills matchup against Thurman<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my skills are better, that\u2019s why we\u2019re fighting him. I\u2019m the champion, I\u2019m defending my title, and I plan on keeping my title come March 28.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurman on facing Fundora<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to see. He\u2019s going to bring it. He needs to do what he always has done\u2026He\u2019s confident and he feels like he\u2019s growing\u2026He\u2019s going to see what an OG can do and the name is \u2018One Time\u2019 for a reason, not a short season. March 28, he\u2019s going to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurman on being in the backend of his career<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely the second leg of the race\u2026This is where the legacy is written or not. The legacy will be written here and now or it will be something that was. But great champions, they become champions again. And you can\u2019t stop a true champion from rising to the top\u2026I\u2019ve been here before and I\u2019m here to make a statement and do as much great things as I can until we hang these gloves up. But we\u2019ve got a few more years\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re now only a couple of weeks away from the March 28 super welterweight title defense between reigning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-531508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}