{"id":534582,"date":"2026-03-13T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:06:11","slug":"tellez-mendoza-the-new-co-main-event-on-fundora-thurman-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534582\/","title":{"rendered":"Tellez-Mendoza the new co-main event on Fundora-Thurman card"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andreas HaleMar 13, 2026, 01:46 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Cuba’s Yoenis Tellez has been summoned to square off with Brian Mendoza in a junior middleweight showdown that will serve as the new co-main event for Sebastian Fundora’s WBC 154-pound title defense against Keith Thurman<\/a> on March 28 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Tellez-Mendoza replaces the heavyweight showdown between Richard Torrez Jr. and Frank Sanchez that was postponed after Sanchez had complications with a knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tellez (11-1, 8 KOs), 25, suffered the first loss of his career when he dropped a unanimous decision to Abass Baraou for the WBA interim junior middleweight title last August. He bounced back with a stoppage win over Kendo Castaneda in December and now finds himself ranked in the top 10 of ESPN’s divisional rankings<\/a> and serving as the co-main for the PBC on Prime Video PPV.<\/p>\n

Mendoza (23-4, 17 KOs) famously knocked out<\/a> Fundora in 2023 for the WBC interim junior middleweight title. Mendoza was down on all three scorecards before pulling off the stunning knockout that served as Fundora’s only loss as a pro. He has gone 1-2 since then with losses to Tim Tszyu and Serhii Bohachuk but got himself back into the win column with a TKO of Jesus Antonio Rojas last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleMar 13, 2026, 01:46 PM ET CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-534582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534582","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=534582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}