An Oct. 25 pay-per-view card in Las Vegas, headlined by WBC junior middleweight titleholder Sebastian Fundora and former two-time welterweight champion Keith Thurman, has been postponed, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Friday.
PBC confirmed the initial report from Mike Coppinger of "The Ring" that Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KOs), the 6-foot-5 ½ "Towering Inferno," suffered a hand contusion in sparring that forced him to withdraw. The PPV card, originally set for the MGM Grand Garden Arena, will be postponed to a later date, PBC said.
After sitting out most of 2024 following his breakthrough, short-notice victory over Tim Tszyu by split decision to unify 154-pound titles in a bloody war, Fundora has been red hot this calendar year in one of the sport's deepest divisions. Fighting out of Co