Sebastian Fundora kept his pursuit of an undisputed championship on track with a second to spare.
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Fundora → keep → second
Fundora stopped Ermal Hadribeaj with a left hand at 2:59 of the 12th round on Saturday night at the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to retain his WBC super welterweight title.
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Fundora → stop → title
Fundora (25-1-1, 17 KOs) made his fourth successful title defense and handed Hadribeaj (23-1-1) his first professional loss.
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Fundora → make → loss
“It was an interesting fight,” Fundora said.
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Fundora → say → ?
“I had to go back and fight on the inside and show everyone again that I can still do that.
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I → have → that
It was dramatic to knock him out at the last second.
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It → knock → second
But we’ll go back to the gym and fix some things.”
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we → go → things
Fundora entered the bout looking toward a chance to unify the 154lb division, but first had to get past a stubborn mandatory challenger.
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Fundora → enter → challenger
Hadribeaj attacked the body early, crouching beneath Fundora’s punches and landing looping shots over the top.
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Hadribeaj → attack → top
Fundora caught him in the second round, and Hadribeaj increasingly resorted to holding to disrupt the champion’s offense.
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Hadribeaj → catch → offense
Hadribeaj was deducted points for holding in the third and 11th rounds.
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Hadribeaj → deduct → rounds
Fundora found room for uppercuts inside and applied pressure through the middle rounds before delivering the decisive left hand in the final second.
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Fundora → find → second
“I told the ref in the fourth round that I was hurting him,” Fundora said.
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Fundora → tell → him
“I kept landing body shots and was looking for that special shot to get him out of there.
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I → keep → him
“I was hitting him in the rib cage the whole time with the left hand and when I went up the middle, I heard the noise that he made.
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he → hit → that
So I just kept touching that and knew it would break him.”
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it → keep → him
Fundora, 28, has won five straight fights since Brian Mendoza knocked him out in April 2023.
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Mendoza → win → April
The 6ft 5in southpaw from Coachella, California, captured the WBC and WBO titles against Tim Tszyu in March 2024, then stopped Chordale Booker, Tszyu and Keith Thurman in successive defenses.
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southpaw → capture → defenses
“I want to go for undisputed in this division,” Fundora said.
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Fundora → want → division
“We’ll break either Jaron Ennis or Josh Kelly down.
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We → break → Ennis
We’ll keep breaking them down.”
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We → keep → them
Hadribeaj, an Albanian fighter based in Miami, earned his title opportunity with a victory over the previously unbeaten Bakary Samake earlier this year.
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Hadribeaj → base → Samake
In the co-main event, Armando Resendiz (17-3) outlasted Australia’s Koen Mazoudier (16-5-1) by unanimous decision in a 10-round super middleweight bout.
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Resendiz → outlast → bout
The judges scored it 98-92, 97-93 and 97-93.
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judges → score → it
Resendiz landed punishing left hands through the middle rounds, but Mazoudier kept trading inside and rallied late.
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Mazoudier → land → rounds
Resendiz finished strongly, sending Mazoudier stumbling backward in the final minute.
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Resendiz → finish → minute
“We pulled this off because we had great preparation,” Resendiz said.
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Resendiz → pull → preparation
“This was the kind of fight that I expected.
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I → expect → that
I had to change my game plan and box and move a little bit because this was a very tough fight.”
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this → have → plan
Marco Romero (16-0, 14 KOs) stopped Matias Ferreira (8-4) with a crushing right hand at 1:54 of the first round in their scheduled eight-round super middleweight bout.
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Romero → stop → bout
“He was too slow,” Romero said.
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Romero → say → ?
“His speed and experience didn’t matter.”
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speed → matter → ?
Jaime Osuna (12-0) remained unbeaten with a majority decision over Cristian Cangelosi (13-1-1) in an eight-round middleweight bout.
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Osuna → remain → bout
“It was a fight that took everything I had from beginning to end,” Osuna said.
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Osuna → take → end
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