Tim Tzu and Sebastian Fundora © Getty Images
The weekend will be packed with world title fights, with the main event taking place at T-Mobile Arena as Tim Tze takes on his replacement Sebastian Fundora (20-1-1, 13 seconds) for the WBO junior middleweight title. The vacant WBC junior middleweight title will also be on the line in Las Vegas.
This will be Tszyu's first defense of the WBO title.
Tse (24-0, 17 fights) was scheduled to face former world welterweight champion Keith Thurman, who withdrew from the bout due to injury.
Australian Tszyu was originally the interim WBO champion, but was recently promoted following his win over Blaine Mendoza. He also had good wins over Tony Harrison and Carlos Ocampo in 2023.
Fundora was interim WBC champion for a time and had strong performances against Sergio Garcia and Eriksson Rubin.
Tse has the advantage of winning with the break in the second half.
Rolando Romero makes first defense of WBA belt
WBA Junior Welterweight Champion Rolando 'Laurie' Romero (15-1, 13 KOs) will make his first title defense against Mexico's Isaac Cruz (25-2-1, 17 KOs).
Romero's only loss was against Gervonta Davis in 2022 when he challenged for the WBA lightweight title. He then stepped up and won the vacant WBA junior welterweight title in May 2023, stopping Ismael Barroso in nine rounds.
Mexico's Cruz has won four matches on the bounce since losing to Davis in 2021.
Romero is favored to win on points.
Erislandy Lara protects Michael Zerafa
WBA middleweight champion Erislandi Lara (29-3-3, 17 wins) will defend his title against Australia's Michael Zerafa (31-4, 19 wins).
Lara briefly became middleweight champion when he stopped Thomas LaManna within a round to win the vacant title. He successfully defended his fight against Gary O'Sullivan in May 2022, with an eight-round stoppage.
Julio Cesar Martinez defends his WBC title for the sixth time
Julio Cesar Martinez (20-3, 15 KOs) will defend his WBC flyweight title for the sixth time against Angelino Cordova (18-0-1, 12 KOs).
Prediction: Martinez will be able to keep the title on the scorecards even after an entertaining scrap.
Brian Mendoza (22-3, 16 KOs) will challenge Serhiy Bokhatyuk (23-1, 23 KOs) for the interim WBC super welterweight title.
Bohachuk will have every intention of upsetting Mendoza.
The only 10-round bout on the bill is Elijah Garcia (16-0, 13 KOs) vs. Kyron Davis (18-3-1, 6 KOs), but at featherweight Mirco Cuero (13 KOs) There will also be an 8th round match against (0 losses). ; 11) Meeting Sulaiman Segawa (16-3-1; 6).
In a six-round junior lightweight bout, Carmel Moton (2-0-2) takes on Anthony Cuban (7-0-2), while Kaipo Gallegos (3-0-1, 3 KOs) takes on Eric He will face Howard (6 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss). ) is also over 6.
The scheduled four-round bout will see debutant Adrian Nieves take on Stephen Walker in the junior welterweight division.
