When is Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman?
Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman is on Saturday, March 28. The main broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET (midnight GMT). A free three-fight preliminary stream will start at 5:30 p.m. ET (9:30 p.m. GMT).
What channel is Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman on?
Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman is a pay-per-view available for purchase via Amazon’s Prime Video, PPV.com and traditional cable and satellite providers.
Where is Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman?
The fight is taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Who is Sebastian Fundora?
Sebastian Fundora, 23-1-1 (15 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Coachella, California, who has been a junior middleweight titleholder ever since a bloody split decision over Tim Tszyu in March 2024.
Fundora captured plenty of attention in the years before, both because of his remarkable stature – he stands nearly 6-foot-6 and somehow comfortably makes 154lbs – and also because of a volume-punching style that can overwhelm and break his opponents down.
After a draw with Jamontay Clark in 2019, Fundora continued to move forward with his development. He stopped Jorge Cota in four rounds in 2021 and outpointed the previously unbeaten Sergio Garcia later that year. In a brutal war with Erickson Lubin in April 2022, Fundora took fire but returned plenty, forcing a battered Lubin to remain in his corner after the ninth round. Fundora captured an interim WBC belt that night.
Next came a wide decision over Carlos Ocampo. And then Fundora suffered an upset loss to Brian Mendoza. Fundora was far ahead on the scorecards after six rounds but was caught with a great shot in the seventh and was unable to beat the count.
Amazingly, Fundora’s title shot against Tszyu came next, though it wasn’t the original plan. Initially, Tszyu was supposed to defend his WBO title against Keith Thurman in the headliner while Fundora was supposed to face Serhii Bohachuk for the vacant WBC belt on the undercard. When Thurman pulled out because of an injury, Fundora subbed into the main event, now with both titles on the line.
Fundora has fought only twice since then. He remained on the sideline for nearly a year while pursuing a potential bout with former unified welterweight titleholder Errol Spence Jnr. Fundora’s first title defense came in March 2025 with a four-round TKO of Chordale Booker. Fundora soon was stripped of his WBO belt for declining to face mandatory challenger Xander Zayas. Instead, Fundora and Tszyu had a rematch this past July, with “The Towering Inferno” dominating en route to a seventh-round stoppage.
Fundora then hurt his hand ahead of a planned October 2025 pay-per-view with Thurman. He says the injury and the extra months that followed were a blessing that gave him more time to prepare.
Who is Keith Thurman?
Keith Thurman, 31-1 (23 KOs), is a 37-year-old former unified welterweight titleholder who has been incredibly inactive in recent years. He has fought only twice since losing to Manny Pacquiao in July 2019.
But before then, Thurman was a mainstay at 147lbs and one of the building blocks for Premier Boxing Champions. The fighter who was tested in a technical knockout win over Jesus Soto-Karass in late 2013 showed to be better than initially believed. Thurman went from the WBA’s secondary titleholder to the organization’s primary guy at the start of 2016 and then impressed with a close decision win over Shawn Porter in June of that year. Thurman added the WBC belt with a split decision victory against Danny Garcia in March 2017.
He didn’t fight for another 22 months. Recovery from elbow surgery took longer than anticipated. Thurman was also dealing with a hand injury. He had to vacate the WBC title. Thurman returned in January 2019 and made the final successful defense of his WBA belt, beating Josesito Lopez via majority decision. Six months later, he lost to the 40-year-old Pacquiao by split decision.
The next time Thurman was seen was in February 2022, when he outpointed Mario Barrios. Thurman was supposed to challenge Tim Tszyu for a junior middleweight world title in March 2024 but pulled out because of an injury. Thurman’s next bout was a year later, when he traveled to Australia and made short work of Brock Jarvis. That was expected to set up a clash with Tszyu, but Tszyu’s defeats apparently scuttled that.
It has now been another year since the Jarvis fight, though that is partially because Fundora suffered an injury of his own, pushing back the original October 2025 date with Thurman. Still, Thurman could have chosen to take a keep-busy bout and shake off some rust. Instead, he opted either to rest or to keep the rust-shaking to the gym.
It’s hard to know what to expect of Thurman in this fight with Fundora. We’ve seen so little of the Floridian in recent years, and haven’t seen him take on anyone even remotely notable since Barrios in 2022. That hasn’t prevented the WBC from ranking Thurman third at 154lbs.
What other fights are on the undercard of Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman?
The undercard includes a junior middleweight bout between former secondary titleholder Yoenis Tellez, 11-1 (8 KOs), and Brian Mendoza, 23-4 (17 KOs); a middleweight match between Yoenli Hernandez, 9-0 (8 KOs), and Terrell Gausha, 24-5-1 (12 KOs); and heavyweight prospect Gurgen Hovhannisyan, 9-0 (8 KOs), taking on Cesar Navarro, 15-3 (13 KOs).
The free three-fight preliminary stream will be headlined by middleweight Elijah Garcia, 17-1 (13 KOs), against Kevin Newman II, 18-3-1 (11 KOs).
The full list of undercard fights can be seen on BoxRec.
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