Sebastian Fundora Reveals the Truth of Errol Spence Jr. as Future Hangs in Jeopardy After Canceled Fight

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On March 22, Sebastian Fundora will finally defend his unified Super Welterweight title after winning it a year ago against Tim Tszyu in March last year. Everyone, including Fundora, thought that winning the title would open several new doors for him. With him holding two world titles, and the 154 lbs division filled with stars, how hard could it be to find an opponent, right?Well, it turns out it can be pretty difficult. For the past year, the Florida native was waiting to fight former unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. who had decided to climb up to 154 lbs after his loss to Terence Crawford in 2023. However, just when everyone thought a fight would happen, they ran into one problem after another.Then, the Truth finally laid the rumors to rest last month and revealed that the fight with Fundora was finally off. This quickly raised concerns about Spence’s future in boxing. It has been 19 months since the Texan last fought and he is still not ready. “I’ll be back when I’m ready,” Spence responded to a fan. With the chaos of the negotiations dying down, fans want to know what went wrong. Well, we finally have some answers.Errol Spence Jr. got fussy with the dates, says Sebastian FundoraAfter confirming the fight against the WBO No.5 ranked Chordale Booker on March 22, both Fundora and Booker appeared in an interview with FightHype. While the duo was there to answer the question regarding their upcoming fight, an interviewer asked ‘The Towering Inferno’ about the broken-down negotiations with Spence Jr. It looks like even Sebastian Fundora is as clueless as us as he has no idea why the negotiations broke down. “We were ready to fight. They just kept switching the dates. I don’t know what happened,” he revealed. The unified light middleweight champion was looking forward to the fight and was excited to challenge himself against one of the best. He declared, “I can’t speak on Spence’s behalf but we were ready to fight.”LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JULY 29: Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. exchange punches during round nine of the World Welterweight Championship bout at T-Mobile Arena on July 29, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)However, after a certain time, even his patience ran out, and he decided to stop chasing the fight. After all, it is not like Fundora to not defend his title for almost a year after winning it. “The dates kept changing for whatever reason but I don’t know. We were training since May of last year for whatever was to come,” he admitted.It looked like there was a huge weight off Fundora’s shoulder now that he was certain about his future. He exclaimed, “They gave us the name like Spence but it didn’t happen. But here we are now, March 22nd, Booker, big, good fight in Vegas and we’re ready.” However, the grass is not that green on the other side. It seems after fumbling the unified super welterweight title clash with Fundora, Errol Spence Jr. is well out of options and things are starting to get worse.Spence Jr. can’t catch a breakEarlier this month, as ‘The Truth’ announced that his sabbatical will continue, WBC booted him out of the top 15 rankings at 154lbs. The decision was quite confusing as a month before the WBC arbitrarily named Errol Spence Jr, their No.1 contender at junior middleweight. However, after his fight against Sebastian Fundora got scrapped, there was no reason for him to remain in the top 10. After all, he hadn’t fought in the weight division since 2015. Moreover, it has been almost 19 months since Spence last fought in a one-sided beatdown against Terence Crawford.Even before the WBC removed him from the top 10 rankings, WBO revealed that they wouldn’t even consider Spence Jr. their champion if he had defeated Fundora. The organization claimed that the Texan has never made it to their top 15 in the division and given the brutal loss against Crawford, there is no reason for them to consider him a contender.The 34-year-old has been battling several issues for a while. He separated from his long-time trainer Derrick James not too long ago and the duo have since been involved in a legal battle over Derrick’s payment. Furthermore, his car accident in 2019 is still haunting him. He hasn’t been the same since the Crawford fight and several rumors suggest that he might never dance in the ring again. While Spence himself has denied any such claims, the recent events are not very promising.Do you think Chordale Booker can give a legitimate challenge to Sebastian Fundora? And will we ever see Errol Spence Jr. in the ring again? Let us know your thoughts down below.The post Sebastian Fundora Reveals the Truth of Errol Spence Jr. as Future Hangs in Jeopardy After Canceled Fight appeared first on EssentiallySports.