{"id":667510,"date":"2026-07-01T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:15:14","slug":"sebastian-fundora-will-face-ermal-hadribeaj-in-fall-says-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667510\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Fundora will face Ermal Hadribeaj in fall, says promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sebastian Fundora\u2019s long-time promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, says the WBC junior-middleweight champion\u2019s next fight will be against his No. 1 mandatory contender, Ermal Hadribeaj, and any potential unification fight against Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis would happen in 2027 at the soonest, if it did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cSebastian Fundora will comply with the WBC and face his No. 1 mandatory next,\u201d said Lewkowicz. \u201cA fight with Ennis could happen, but some time next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lewkowicz says Coachella, California\u2019s Fundora, 24-1-1 (16 KOs) will face Miami via Albania\u2019s Hadribeaj, 23-0-1 (8 KOs), in the fall of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hadribeaj was last seen winning a 12-round final mandatory elimination bout, and the WBC Silver junior middleweight title, with a unanimous decision over France\u2019s Bakary Samake, live on ProBoxTV in May.<\/p>\n<p>Fundora\u2019s last appearance was a surprisingly comfortable sixth-round stoppage of former unified welterweight world champion Keith Thurman in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Fundora\u2019s long-time promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, says the WBC junior-middleweight champion\u2019s next fight will be against his No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,31663,191957,11189,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-jaron-ennis","tag-sampson-lewkowicz","tag-sebastian-fundora","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}