LONDON (AP) — British boxers Caroline and Daniel Dubois have some catching up to do on Gabriela and Sebastian Fundora.
The Fundora siblings hold a total of five world titles — Gabriela with four of them as the undisputed flyweight champion. The Dubois’ have one — Caroline’s WBC lightweight belt.
Caroline Dubois can double her tally when she faces WBO lightweight champion Terri Harper on Sunday in London. Next month, Daniel Dubois will try to become a two-time world champion when he takes on WBO heavyweight title holder Fabio Wardley in Manchester.
Ahead of a busy weekend of women's boxing, here’s a look at some successful sister-brother boxing pairs.
Besides being world champions, the Fundora siblings are each other's No. 1 fan.
Sebastian wore a red ‘Fundora’ headband as he celebrated his sister's sixth-round stoppage of Viviana Ruiz Corredor last month. During her post-match interview in the ring, he carefully placed her glasses on as she held her championship belts.
“I know he’s ready for a knockout too. He’s witnessed that, he’s going to see how he can top it,” she said.
Last weekend, Sebastian retained his WBC super welterweight title with a sixth-round stoppage of his own — against Keith Thurman. This time it was Gabriela's turn to wear the headband. She sat beside him at the post-fight news conference, where Sebastian wished “happy birthday to my little sister” before joining the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday to You.”
In March 2024, the Fundora siblings became the first sister and brother to hold world titles at the same time.
The California natives, both southpaws, typically have height advantages over their opponents. Sebastian is 6-foot-5 and is nicknamed the “Towering Inferno.” Gabriela is 5-foot-9.
The Dubois siblings have forged their own paths in boxing.
Caroline split from their father's management a couple of years ago. She became the WBC world lightweight champion in late 2024 after Katie Taylor vacated the belt.
The 25-year-old Dubois (12-0-1, 5 KOs) faces a tough test in Harper (16-2-2, 6 KOs) in an all-British bout at Olympia in west London.
“You're pathetic,” Dubois told Harper in a face-to-face. “I'm going to come for you.”
Daniel previously held the IBF world heavyweight belt but lost it to Oleksandr Usyk last summer. He's now preparing for Wardley on May 9 at Co-op Live Arena in Manchester.
Caroline told The Associated Press in an interview last year that she and Daniel were not on speaking terms.
Lucas Matthysse of Argentina retired after losing to Manny Pacquiao in 2018. Matthysse had held the WBA's welterweight “regular” title.
His sister, 45-year-old Edith Soledad Matthysse, is still fighting. She's a former WBA and WBC world featherweight champion.
Ireland's Michaela and Aidan Walsh became the first sister and brother to box at the same Olympic Games. That was in the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Aidan won a bronze medal in the men's welterweight category in Tokyo. The Belfast natives have also represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games.
The Dubois-Harper fight is part of an Easter Sunday card by Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions. In the co-main event, Ellie Scotney (11-0) will try to become the undisputed super bantamweight champion when she faces WBA titleholder Mayelli Flores (13-1-1, 4 KOs) of Mexico.
On Saturday in Cardiff, Olympic champion Lauren Price (9-0, 2 KOs) puts her WBC, WBA and IBF world welterweight titles on the line against challenger Stephanie Pineiro Aquino (10-0, 3 KOs) of Puerto Rico.
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From left, boxer Fabio Wardley, promoter Frank Warren and boxer Daniel Dubois pose for a photo, in Manchester, England, Saturday March 28, 2026. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)
FILE - Sebastian Fundora celebrates with his sister Gabriela, left, after defeating Tim Tszyu, of Australia, in a super welterweight title bout March 30, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Boxer Caroline Dubois gestures, during a workout at All Stars Boxing Gym, in London, Thursday April 2, 2026, (Ben Whitley/PA via AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Hold on to those Thanksgiving turkeys! WKRP is coming to Cincinnati — for real this time.
“I cannot, by contract, tell you when. I cannot tell you who. But I can tell you, direct to the camera, WKRP, after 48 years, is coming to Cincinnati,” D.P. McIntire, who runs the media nonprofit that is auctioning the famous call letters, told The Associated Press. “Book it! It’s done!”
The call sign was made famous by “WKRP in Cincinnati,” a CBS television sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982. It made stars of actors like Loni Anderson and Richard Sanders, whose bumbling newsman Les Nessman reported on a Thanksgiving promotion gone bad when live but flightless turkeys were dropped from a helicopter.
McIntire remembers watching the show’s first episode — featuring disc jockeys Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid) — in the living room with his parents and older sister.
“And at the end of the 30-minute episode,” he said, “I got up and I proclaimed, `I’m going to be in radio. And if I ever have the opportunity, I’m going to run a station called WKRP.’”
McIntire said he got his first on-air job at 13 as a news anchor at WNQQ “Wink FM” in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
Fast forward to 2014, when his North Carolina-based nonprofit acquired the call sign from the Federal Communications Commission. Stations in Dallas, Georgia, and Alexandria, Tennessee, previously bore the letters.
McIntire laughs as he recalls his chat with a woman in the agency’s audio division.
He had two sets of call letters in mind. She told him he needed a third.
“Being the jokester that I am, I said, `Well, if you need three, and if it’s available, we’ll take WKRP,’” he said. “And 90 seconds later, she came back and she said, `Mr. McIntire. Congratulations. You’re the general manager of WKRP in Raleigh, North Carolina.’”
WKRP-LP — 101.9 on the FM dial — went live Nov. 30, 2015. The LP stands for “low power,” a class of station created to serve more local audiences that didn’t want mass-market content.
“Our format is what radio used to be 35 years ago in small-town America,” he said. “There is Greats of the 80s, Sounds of the 70s, 90s Rewind.”
LPFM is restricted to nonprofit organizations like his Oak City Media, and it’s definitely local.
“Your broadcast capacity is limited to 100 watts,” McIntire said. “So, your average range is between, depending on your terrain and circumstances, 4 and 12 miles (6 and 19 kilometers) in any direction. Enough to cover a small town.”
And, by necessity, it’s a low-budget affair.
The transmitter is in a corner of McIntire’s garage, between a recycling bin and the cleaning supplies. The broadcast antenna sits atop a 25-foot (7.62-meter) metal flagpole in the backyard. The studio — microphones and a mixing board hooked up to a computer — is in McIntire’s basement.
Like the WKRP of television, McIntire and his partners set out to be “irreverent.” One of their offerings is a two-hour show called “Weird Al and Friends,” focusing on the satirical works of Weird Al Yankovic.
They even had an annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. But don’t call the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — they hand out gift certificates to a local grocery store.
“We don’t toss them out of helicopters,” he said with a laugh.
After 10 years on the air, the 56-year-old McIntire decided it was time to pass the reins.
“We’re in a position where the older members like me who started the station are turning the leadership over to younger members,” he said. “They’re not interested in radio.”
They put out a call for bids to use the call letters on FM and AM radio, as well as television and digital television.
They intend to use the proceeds for a new nonprofit venture called Independent Broadcast Consultants. He said IBC will be “geared specifically toward helping these new broadcasters get up and running, get the consulting that they need in order to be, hopefully, more successful than we have been.”
Oak City Media was all set to hand off the television-related suffixes — WKRPTV and WKRPDT — when another group defaulted on the agreement, McIntire said. But he said the Cincinnati deal is in the bag, he just can’t legally discuss it.
“It will be radio,” he said. “But that’s all I can tell you at this time.”
Whatever they do with the call sign, he hopes they will be true to the show that inspired it.
“It has a special place in the hearts of an awful lot of people,” he said. “And we have been very, very, very proud to have been a steward of that legacy.”
D.P. McIntire leans against a deck beneath the WKRP radio antenna in the backyard of his home in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
D.P. McIntire points to the transmitter for WKRP radio in a corner of his garage in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
The WKRP radio antenna sits atop a 25-foot flagpole behind D.P. McIntire's home in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
A photo of the cast members of the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" sits in a window at the home of D.P. McIntire in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
D.P. McIntire stands beneath a WKRP banner in the backyard of his home in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
