Keith Thurman will have to wait even longer for a super welterweight title fight.
WBC super welterweight champion Sebastian Fundora has sustained a hand injury, forcing him out of his Oct. 25 title defense against former unified welterweight champion Thurman.
Fundora and Thurman were scheduled to clash in the featured bout of a Premier Boxing Champions pay-per-view event on Amazon Prime Video from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The event has been cancelled due to Fundora’s injury, Uncrowned confirmed Friday. Fundora vs. Thurman and the WBC super featherweight title fight between O’Shaquie Foster and Stephen Fulton will be rescheduled for a later date.
Ironically, it was Tim Tszyu and Keith Thurman who were supposed to headline PBC’s first pay-per-view event on Prime in 2024, however Thurman withdrew from the event around 10 days prior due to injury. On that occasion, it was Fundora who stepped in on short notice to replace Thurman and upset Tszyu.
Thurman has since beaten Tszyu as well a win that has rekindled his career at the world level.
Now it is Fundora who is injured and Thurman left without a dance partner, but the show will not go on this time.
The fight would’ve marked a third title defense for Fundora in 2025. “The Towering Inferno” stopped Chordale Booker early this past March and dominated Tim Tszyu for an eighth-round finish in their July rematch on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs. Mario Barrios. Also in March, Thurman ended a three-year layoff with a knockout win over Brock Jarvis in Sydney, Australia.