Sebastian Fundora retained the unified WBC and WBO junior middleweight titles with a fourth-round TKO of Chordale Booker on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Fundora (22-1-1, 15 KOs) is boxing’s tallest champion at 6-foot-5½ despite weighing just 154 pounds. He used his 8½-inch height advantage to apply pressure behind his long southpaw jab as he bloodied Booker.
Fundora stunned Booker in Round 3 and then floored the challenger the following round with a series of shots. Booker tried to survive, but a flurry of punches along the ropes forced the referee to halt the fight with nine seconds remaining in Round 4.
CompuBox Punch Stats PUNCHES FUNDORA BOOKER Total landed 79 37 Total thrown 361 150 Percent 21.9% 24.7% Jabs landed 29 21 Jabs thrown 211 90 Percent 13.7% 23.3% Power landed 50 16 Power thrown 150 60 Percent 33.3% 26.7% “He was moving a lot; I don’t think he wanted to trade at all,” Fundora, 27, said.
Fundora’s return after a career-long one-year layoff amounted to a stay-busy fight. Fundora was lined up for a fight with former champion Errol Spence that was planned for October 2024 but was delayed numerous times and finally canceled from its March 29 date.
