By Ryan Burton
BoxingScene.com recently caught up with WBA "regular" welterweight champion Keith "One Time" Thurman (25-0, 21KOs). The unbeaten puncher is scheduled to return to the ring on July 11th on the PBC series debut on ESPN against former champion Luis Collazo.
Thurman has campaigned for a fight against WBC/WBA/WBO welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26KOs) for well over a year. If he is able to secure the fight, he said that he has studied Mayweather and has picked up on a few of his flaws.
He is very confident in his chin being able to withstand a clean shot from Floyd and said that he believes he could get the 37-year-old to trade punches with him in certain situations over the course of a 12 round fight.
"There are things that Floyd does in the ring. Whenever he wants to throw the right hand counter over top of people's slow jabs and things of that nature. Left foot out in front. He is a right handed fighter - his left foot in back is up on his toe. Very interesting. A lot of times he leans forward. We call that a bait. He baits you and then in the transaction he pulls back, already on the toe, and he springs forward with the right hand. A lot of people get caught by that punch. I don't know why they aren't already looking for that punch.
"Man, I would throw a slow jab on purpose and then trade right hands. If his is faster and it lands first, so be it. I am not getting knocked out. But do it again and do it again," Thurman told BoxingScene.com.
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