⚑ Blotter Flag · Narrative Spine (Rule 43)
Fundora’s one loss came in a fight he was winning every round on two cards, so the question is whether Hadribeaj — never beaten, never stopped, but with just eight knockouts — can stay close enough for long enough to make the champion’s only documented way of losing matter, or whether Fundora’s length and volume bury that chance by the middle rounds.
Mirror image, different problem
Two southpaws, one very tall and one very patient. One of them has been to the wrong end of a seventh round. The other has never had to find out what that feels like.
Fundora is the champion who looks like he was drawn by someone who never watched a boxer work. He fights from the outside, throws more than the man in front of him can answer, and does his damage when that man has to come to him. His last three wins all ended early: Booker in four, Tszyu retired on his stool after seven, Thurman stopped in six on March 28. That is not a man waiting for a decision.
Hadribeaj is a fighter the highlight reels will never find, and he built himself that way. He never boxed as an amateur. He came out of MMA in Albania, where he won the national title three years running and the Balkan title twice, and Donato De Martiis talked him into boxing in Miami after watching him handle a professional in sparring. Since mid-2022 he has won nine decisions and stopped two men, Molina in nine and Aydemir in eight, and his best night is also his most recent: the 12-round decision over the unbeaten Bakary Samake on May 23 that doubled as the WBC final eliminator. He is patient early, works off footwork and timing, keeps exchanges short, and finishes rounds strong. He has not fought since May.
The matchup is physical before it is tactical. Fundora has seven and a half inches of height on him and six inches of reach, and Hadribeaj spent camp sparring twelve rounds at a time with two 6’4" partners to get used to it. The shared stance takes away the awkward angle each man usually has to solve, so the fight comes down to who controls the distance. Both made weight, Fundora at 152.8 and Hadribeaj at 152.4, and the Blotter found no prior misses for either (Rule 40).
What the Blotter is watching is distance, and the middle of the fight. Hadribeaj has said his plan is to stay out of the jab and the cross, make the champion reset, and get the range right before he lets it become a war. If that works it shows after round four, with Fundora’s output dipping and Hadribeaj taking the end of rounds, which is the spot where Mendoza ended it in the seventh. If Hadribeaj is still moving and scoring in round eight without having been hurt, the stoppage call gets shakier. If Fundora has him working on the ropes by round five, it doesn’t.
Sebastian Fundora
DEEP
Seventeen rounds at nine or later by the raw count, against Tszyu, Lubin, Ocampo and Garcia. Provisional until the opposition ranks are fully checked (Rule 28).
Ermal Hadribeaj
MODERATE
More late rounds, twenty-one, but mostly against unranked men with winning records. Samake is the standout name in that group, and the count alone doesn’t buy a higher tier.
Sebastian Fundora
TIER II
Lubin put him down and he answered with a round-nine stoppage. Against Mendoza the same test went the other way, and he did not recover (Rule 27).
Ermal Hadribeaj
UNVERIFIED
No loss and no documented knockdown on his record, so there is nothing yet to rate. The Blotter is not guessing how he responds.
How This Gets Scored (Rule 26)
Decision Risk: MEDIUM
Judges reward what they can see and count. Fundora’s jab and volume score at a glance, round after round, and he is the champion on a PBC card, which is the kind of status that nudges close rounds his way. Hadribeaj starts slowly by design and finishes rounds strongly, and the finish of a round is what judges remember, but a patient early pace gives away a lot of first minutes. The fight is probably not close, which keeps the risk from being high.
The rounds that decide a distance fight are the middle ones, where Fundora’s output can dip and Hadribeaj’s timing counts for the most.
Score it yourself: if you cannot find two or three middle rounds that Hadribeaj clearly wins, this is a Fundora card no matter how the last three go.
Blotter Call · Main Event · Winner High · Method Lean
FUNDORA — TKO
The Blotter goes to the stoppage. A man never stopped in 25 fights has his stoppage chances cut a tier (Rule 29), which is why this is a lean and not a conviction. Against that, Fundora has ended his last three early, and a man who keeps walking forward for twelve rounds eventually walks into the volume. If it does not end early, it is Fundora’s card on the Judge’s Chair reading above, and the upset still has to show up on the scorecards before it shows up on the canvas.
Rule 52 · How the men each fighter beat have done since
PFORI asks one question: after a fighter beat a man, what did that man go on to do? Each later fight scores +3 for a stoppage win, +2 for a decision win, 0 for a draw, −2 for a decision loss and −3 for a stoppage loss, and the score is the average. Bouts against the program fighter himself are left out.
| Beaten by Fundora | Since | Record | Score |
|---|
| Sergio Garcia (Dec. 2021) | Harrison L, Cabaña W, Tellez L (TKO 3) | 1–2 | −1.00 |
| Erickson Lubin (Apr. 2022) | Arias W, Ramos W, Holmes W, Ortiz L (TKO 2) | 3–1 | +1.25 |
| Carlos Ocampo (Oct. 2022) | Five wins, Tszyu L (KO 1), Walsh L | 5–2 | +1.43 |
| Tim Tszyu (Mar. 2024, again Jul. 2025) | Murtazaliev L (TKO 3), then four straight wins, Spence Jr. among them | 4–1 | +1.20 |
| Chordale Booker (Mar. 2025) | Allotey W (KO 3), Samir W (TKO) | 2–0 | +3.00 |
| Keith Thurman (Mar. 2026) | No fight since | — | Not scored |
Fundora: +1.14 across 21 later fights. His beaten men have mostly kept winning, and one of them, Tszyu, went on to beat Errol Spence Jr. in July. Ocampo carries the most fights and Booker the best number, but the best opposition on that list is also where the losses came, with Lubin and Tszyu each stopped by a rising contender. Thurman’s loss was his first stoppage defeat, and he has not fought since (Rule 52.1).
Hadribeaj: too early to score most of it. Of the eight men checked, Molina won his next fight (Arrazola, TKO 3) and Colmenarez lost a majority decision to Eumir Marcial in October 2025, which is +1.00 across two fights and too thin to lean on. Samake and Ramirez have not fought since losing to him. Fundora’s résumé has been tested forward in time, and Hadribeaj’s mostly has not had the chance yet.
WBC Super Welterweight Title
Fundora won the belt on March 30, 2024, and this is his fourth defense. Hadribeaj is the mandatory challenger and the Samake win was the WBC final eliminator.
Figueroa vs. Kameda · Featherweight · Vacant WBA title
The co-feature is off. Brandon Figueroa came in 1.4 pounds over on Friday, 127.4, and did not re-weigh inside the hour, so he was stripped of the WBA featherweight title on the scales. He withdrew Saturday morning, ill. Tomoki Kameda (42-5, 23 KOs) made weight at 125.8 and loses his chance at the vacant belt.
The miss was Figueroa’s first. He is almost 30 and 5’9", tall for 126, and one miss may be the sign he has outgrown the division (Rule 40). That is the Blotter’s read, not a fact. With no fight, there is no Call, and Armando Resendiz vs. Koen Mazoudier moves up as the co-feature.
Marco Romero
⚡ Scout’s Chair — The Fighter You Need to Know
MARCO ROMERO
15-0 · 13 KOs · Olathe, KS · Age 20 · Trainer John Brown
Romero is 20 and works with John Brown, the trainer who guided Tommy Morrison, with Al Valenti advising. The amateur résumé is as deep as any on the card: a 130–5 record, four Ringside World Championships, six Silver Gloves titles, three Junior Olympic titles, four USA National Championships, a National Golden Gloves and a place on Team USA. The pro game is built on defense, with footwork, head movement and a left hook to the body that finished Heber Rondon in the first round, the same Rondon Armando Resendiz stopped in two.
The Blotter is careful with it. His amateur path ran through the open U.S. circuit, which under Rule 34a makes him a Flagged candidate, not an Approach one, and the pro opposition has been thin: Rondon was 20–7, and Noah Kidd, who came next, was 10–13–2. Brown wants low mileage on him. Tonight Braulio Ferreira, 8–3 with three knockouts, is a measured step, and the real question is who comes after.
The Undercard — Fighters to Find
Records below are per secondary sources (Rule 86). Calls go on the broadcast card only (Rule 95), which is why the two prelims on PBC’s YouTube channel carry none.
ARMANDO RESENDIZ
16-3 · 11 KOs · Nayarit, Mexico
Age 27 · 5’11" · 69" reach · Orthodox · Beat Caleb Plant by split decision for the WBA interim belt in May 2025, was elevated to full champion in January, and lost it to Jaime Munguia by unanimous decision on May 2 · Stopped by Elijah Garcia in round 8 in 2023 · Took this fight on about 10 days’ notice
vs
KOEN MAZOUDIER
16-4-1 · 6 KOs · Blacktown, Australia
Age 31 · Weighed 166.8 · Stopped by Nikita Tszyu in round 9 in Sydney after pressing forward through heavy punishment
Jermall Charlo withdrew with a camp injury and Resendiz stepped in. The Blotter had no Charlo program or Call, so nothing is voided (Rule 60). Resendiz has the better résumé, a former champion with wins over Plant and Jarrett Hurd, but he is on short notice and he has been stopped before. Mazoudier is the type who keeps walking forward, and he lasted nine rounds with a southpaw puncher in Tszyu, so a clean finish is not guaranteed either way.
Blotter Call
RESENDIZ — DECISION
Lean. The better boxer on a short camp against a durable pressure fighter points to the cards, with a Resendiz stoppage the alternative.
MARCO ROMERO
15-0 · 13 KOs · Olathe, KS
Age 20 · 5’10" · Trainer John Brown · 130–5 as an amateur
vs
BRAULIO MATIAS FERREIRA
8-3 · 3 KOs · Uruguay
Three losses on his record
Romero is a defensive boxer-puncher who ends most nights early, thirteen knockouts in fifteen fights. Ferreira has three knockouts in eight wins and has lost three times, so he is beatable and also not a man who has shown he can hurt Romero. The books agree: Romero is the biggest favorite on the card.
Blotter Call
ROMERO — TKO
Lean. The finishing record is real, and the Spotlight above is about whether the opposition has caught up to it.
JAIME ENRIQUE OSUNA DIAZ
11-0 · 5 KOs · Guerrero Negro, Mexico
5’10" · 71.7" reach
vs
CRISTIAN CANGELOSI
13-0-1 · 5 KOs · Palermo, Italy, based in Brooklyn
Swift Promotions · Fought at Barclays Center in March 2025
The closest fight on the card on paper. Osuna brings height and a reach near 72 inches. Cangelosi comes from Danny Garcia’s Swift Promotions with a New York base and a Barclays Center date behind him. Both have five knockouts, so the likelier night is eight rounds with the cards deciding, and the books make Osuna only a narrow favorite.
DAVID “KING” GARCIA
7-0 · 5 KOs · Phoenix, AZ
Age 17 · Turned pro at 15 · Four national amateur titles · Trained by his father · Swift Promotions, mentored by Danny Garcia
vs
ANGEL CARRILLO
5-0-1 · 2 KOs · Oxnard, CA
The story is Garcia’s age. Seven fights, five stoppages, and a stated goal of becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history. Carrillo has a draw on his record and two knockouts, so this reads as a development test, a teenager being asked to go six rounds against a man with a pro record to protect. The books have Garcia a heavy favorite.
Rule 46 · Fighter Environment
Environment Analysis · The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan
Fundora: He was stripped of the WBO belt on May 2, 2025, for declining mandatory challenger Xander Zayas in favor of the Tszyu rematch. PBC’s next targets are Ennis or Kelly. On the Cash-Out Test, the promoter’s priority is Fundora.
Hadribeaj: Born in Tirana, he lives and trains in Miami and would be Albania’s first world champion. He arrives with Donato De Martiis in his corner and Arena Box behind him, and he earned the shot in the ring against Samake, but on a PBC night in Las Vegas the room belongs to the champion.
Source Notes · Updated October 17, 2026
Records and results. Per secondary sources (Rule 86): PBC, the WBC, The Ring, FightMag, Wikipedia, Tapology, Yahoo, Forbes, Boxing News, BoxingScene, DraftKings and Champinon. Odds are DraftKings as of October 17.
PFORI (Rule 52). Fundora’s six most recent opponents; for Hadribeaj, a sample of eight opponents, scored where they have fought since.
Inference. The reading that Figueroa has outgrown 126 is the Blotter’s own, drawn from one miss.
What the rules cited in this program mean
Rule 26 · Judge’s Chair. A plain-language read on how a decision gets scored and how likely a contested card is.
Rule 27 · Crisis Execution Rating. Rates how a fighter performed when a fight actually turned hard. Unverified means there is no such fight to rate yet.
Rule 28 · Championship Round Bank. Counts rounds fought at round nine or later, weighted by who the opposition was.
Rule 29 · Chin Durability. A fighter never stopped, or stopped once, over 20 or more fights has his opponent’s stoppage projection cut by a tier.
Rule 34 and 34a · Amateur Background. Verify a fighter’s amateur record, and filter it by whether the system was closed (national team pipeline) or open.
Rule 40 and 82.1 · Weight Discipline and Weight-Miss Log. Check for missed weights and log each one, noting whether it is a pattern or a one-off.
Rule 43 · Narrative Spine. One sentence naming the competitive tension the program is built around.
Rule 46 · Fighter Environment. Trainer, promoter, management and platform signals, plus the Cash-Out Test: whose priority the night actually serves.
Rule 52 and 52.1 · PFORI. Scores how the men a fighter beat fared afterward: +3 stoppage win, +2 decision win, 0 draw, −2 decision loss, −3 stoppage loss, averaged. An opponent with no later fights is reported on his own and not scored.
Rule 60 · Late Substitution. A Call made against a replaced opponent is voided.
Rule 62 · Title Status. Name the specific belt and say whether the fight is mandatory or voluntary.
Rule 86 · Secondary-Source Label. Records not confirmed on BoxRec are marked as coming from secondary sources.
Rule 95 · Same-Day Card. Calls go on the broadcast card only, and the Spotlight can be any fighter on the card.
