"The Hammer" has tried three times to win the WBC world championship title in the super welterweight division, but Jermell Charlo (knockout 1), Sebastian Fundora (technical knockout 9), and Vergil Ortiz Jr. (technical knockout 2) stood in his way last weekend. The 30-year-old fighter stated that losing the last few pounds is becoming increasingly difficult, and announced his transition to middleweight.
"On Saturday night, I was a prisoner of my bad habits. But this is just another lesson I need to learn. I will come back better, enriched by this experience, but this time in middleweight. Sometimes he who lives by the sword dies by the sword," Lubin wrote on social media.
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