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Mike Coppinger
Unified junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora and Chordale Booker are finalizing a deal for a March fight in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.
Fundora, who holds the WBC and WBO titles at 154 pounds, was slated to fight longtime former champion Errol Spence Jr. on March 29 in a PPV headliner. That matchup was originally planned for October before a series of delays postponed the fight and it was eventually scrapped last week.
Fundora (21-1-1, 14 KOs) won the titles last March when he defeated Tim Tszyu in a split decision upset in one of the year’s best action fights. Fundora, who fights out of Southern California, accepted the assignment on 11 days’ notice after Keith Thurman was injured.
Known as “The Towering Inferno,” Fundora is 6-foot-5½ with an 80-inch reach. The 27-year-old is ranked No. 2 at 154 pounds by ESPN. Fundora and his sister Gabriela are the first brother and sister to be full-fledged champions in boxing history. She was named ESPN’s 2024 Women’s Fighter of the Year.
Booker (23-1, 11 KOs) has won six consecutive fights since a first-round KO loss to Ammo Williams in 2022. The 33-year-old, who fights out of Stamford, Connecticut, will be fighting for his first world title.