Unified two-belt junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora will reportedly not participate on this Friday’s purse bid for his mandated title protection in opposition to WBO obligatory Xander Zayas.
Somewhat than doing that, Fundora (21-1-1, 14 KOs) will face Tim Tszyu in a rematch, probably on July nineteenth on the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas. The High Rank-promoted #1 Zayas (21-0, 13 KOs) will struggle #2-ranked Jorge Garcia Perez for the WBO junior middleweight belt.
Sidestepping Zayas
Lance Pugmire broke the information of Fundora opting not to participate in Friday’s purse bid for the Zayas struggle. The transfer by Fundora, 27, is sensible as a result of there’s extra money in a struggle with the favored former WBO 154-lb champion Tszyu (25-2, 18 KOs) in a rematch from Australian PPV than there can be in opposition to the 22-year-old Zayas, who isn’t a pay-per-view fighter.
Fundora dethroned Tszyu final 12 months, beating him by a 12-round cut up determination on March thirtieth in Las Vegas. Tim was lower on his brow from an unintentional elbow from Fundora within the second spherical, and fought with blood obscuring his imaginative and prescient for the rest of the struggle.
Earlier than the lower occurred, Tszyu had been lighting Fundora up with energy photographs. After the harm, Tim’s effectiveness dropped off. A rematch will give Sebastian an opportunity to show that his victory wasn’t a fluke.
Zayas’s struggle with Perez (33-4, 26 KOs) gained’t be a straightforward one for him, because the Mexican puncher has energy and punches together. Perez lately upset beforehand unbeaten Charles Conwell by a 12-round cut up determination on April nineteenth in Oceanside, California.
Perez’s Risk
Zayas lacks the offensive energy or capability to face and struggle Perez in the best way that Conwell tried to do. What the Puerto Rican fighter Zayas will seemingly select to do is field and transfer, as he has in a lot of his fights.
High Rank has maneuvered Xander into the #1 place with the WBO with cautious matchmaking, holding him away from the damaging contenders. They’ve bought Zayas on this place, nevertheless it’s inconceivable to know if he’s prepared or perhaps a good fighter.
His opposition has been so lackluster, as he’s been matched equally to the best way former High Rank fighter Edgar Berlanga was when he was with the corporate. All we are able to say is Zayas has no energy, he strikes rather a lot, and he’s fought nobody noteworthy to create his 21-0 file.
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