Sebastian Fundora's Submission Failure Ends His Desperate Attempt at Lightweight Title Shot

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 4: Sebastian Fundora, the WBC Super Welterweight World Champion, during a news conference to announce his upcoming championship boxing match with Keith Thurman at AVALON Hollywood on February 4, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. The bout will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, March 28, 2026. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) | Getty Images Sebastian Fundora is set to put his WBC super welterweight title on the line against former welterweight champion Keith Thurman on March 28 and quickly catches up with Fight Hub TV to discuss the bout, facing Thurman who he was once a fan of, and why he’s willing to take on all-comers at 154 so long as it makes business sense.

Fundora on his expectations for himself in the Thurman fight “From myself, I expect to win…I think this fight right here will put me in a different stage in my life. I’m a world champion already but I think a fight like this could make us a superstar…He’s a future Hall of Famer, for sure. I think that’s already stamped in the boxing history books but a win over him will put me in there, too.

“I’m going in there to rip his head off just like he’s going in to do mine. He’s just another opponent to me when it comes to the ring. After the fight is over, you know, shake his hand…Boxing’s kind of different in that way where you going to see your past hero and you’re going to have to slay him yourself.

” On his future goals at 154 “We’ll see because the paths have been changing, you know, we have been unified for a while and they took away the belt with the WBO but we’re still WBC champion. When opportunities present themselves — financially as well because this is a prizefighter sport as well — we just got to see where we’re at because there’s a lot of good names here and it just has to make sense because we’ll fight everybody. ”