Keef Thurman Basically DUCKS Question On Why He Avoided Spence As Champion: "No Stage, No Pay"

[Combat Talk Radio]

He's basically saying (without just outright saying) that he didn't fight Spence because Spence wasn't a draw, but Spence should fight him because he IS a draw.

Despite how many names the Dallas native continues to scratch off his Hitlist, Spence Jr. refuses to face off against Thurman. After spending his younger years chasing a match against the former unified star, Spence Jr. has vowed to never face Thurman since their showdown never took place. While Spence Jr. continues to say that he is no longer interested, Thurman questions whether he was truly interested in the first place.

“When people want somebody, they want somebody,” explained Thurman during an interview with FightHype.com. “When you want a Lamborghini you want a Lamborghini. I can ask you two years from now, you want your Lamborghini, it doesn’t change. When you really want something you want something. I want to see it, I just didn’t want to see it for no reason, at no stage, with no pay. I just didn’t want to see that.”

Although Thurman never believed the time was quite right, at this point, he believes everything now makes sense for their showdown to take place.

“EJ can say whatever he wants, I think it’s a whole bunch of nonsense and drama.”

Also says Floyd conspired with Spence to divert attention away from Floyd.

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I kinda figured that was the reason that Spence hates Thurman.

I don’t know for sure but I figured Thurman must have bullish.tied with Spence years back. Likely with abc belt nonsense (“get a title first”) and draw nonsense (“you don’t sell enough”)

now Thurman basically just outs himself and alludes to it.

No wonder Spence says “f.uck Keith Thurman” and straight up says a Thurman fight will never happen.

[djtmal]

He was honest. He was chasing a Floyd fight and saw Spence as high risk low reward and when the fight came to better financial fruition he's game. He respected Spence. He fought Garcia and Porter rightfully so both guys had belts, both guys had recognition and beating them made Thurman the guy to see no lying there.

In the interim he lost to Manny but Spence still needs to see Thurman while he still in his prime. Don't wait until he's shopworn then try to get tons of credit for beating him. Don't be like Floyd. Nobody is gonna respect that outside of your diehards.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I kinda figured that was the reason that Spence hates Thurman.

I don’t know for sure but I figured Thurman must have bullish.tied with Spence years back. Likely with abc belt nonsense (“get a title first”) and draw nonsense (“you don’t sell enough”)

now Thurman basically just outs himself and alludes to it.

No wonder Spence says “f.uck Keith Thurman” and straight up says a Thurman fight will never happen.

There was actually an interaction where Spence ran up on Keef at some interview asking for a fight and Keef said something along the lines of, "it's my get back baby, not gonna happen".

I'm trying to find the clip. People keep mentioning that line. It's up there with Jean Pascal's infamous "TEK DE TEST!" to Hopkins.

EDIT: FOUND IT!!! Keef ducking Spence. I believe this was right after Spence bodied Ocampo in one round and everyone was trying to get Keef to take the fight. Spence was IBF champion at the time, so there really was no reason not to fight him at that point.