WBC and WBO Junior Middleweight Sebastian Fundora (22-1-1, 14 Kos) used the high 6’5 1/2 “frame and the high work rate to cut the Challenger Chordale Booker (23-2, 11 KOS) in an easy fourth round technical knockout on Saturday night at their Headliner at Headliner in their Headliner in Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
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“We didn’t even bring a southpaw to the camp,” he said Bookness. “It was just to catch his footwork. He didn’t want to market at all. So he just broke him in the body and when I hurt him in the third round, he slowed him a lot.”
Booker’s nose bleeding badly from the third round and appeared to have blood from his mouth. He took a long way from the fundora in three and four rounds. Booker gave some great shots to each of the rounds, but there weren’t enough of them. He was very busy moving, trying to survive, to gather every real offense.
The race looked like slaughter because the string did not have the power and the size of being competitive against the fundora. To be likely to win, the Booker would need a great deal of power of some of the big hitters in the 154 lb section, but missing. This is obviously because he was chosen as a fundora opponent. If he could hit, he would have been omitted as other division fighters, such as Bakhram Murtazaliev.
Booker was all over the race, trying not to get away from champion, Fundora. He landed some nice shots in the first two rounds, but from the third, Booker went from the champion. Booker’s nose and mouth bleed from the shots he had taken in the third round.
In the fourth, Fundora landed a few left hands that had a booker looking in agony. “The tall Inferno” fundora trapped him against the ropes and pushed him on the canvas after being nailed with a hard shot. Looking at bad bad, Booker did it and looked at the referee, Thomas Taylor, before he continued. Fundora went after his opponent and nailed him with recurring shots, causing the booker to fall against the ropes.
The referee, Taylor, fell and stopped the competition just in time to prevent a second knockdown. The break time was at 2:51 of the round.
Last update on 03/22/2025
