Comments Thread For: Stanionis Doesn't Believe It's Fair If Keith Thurman Is The Next Chosen Foe For Spence

[Liondw]

Stanionis should be focused on Ortiz Jr, if that fight still happens.

Sometimes hard to keep up with the news with fights being postponed quite a lot nowadays.

[Pigeons]

Interesting article to run after Stanionis pulls out of the Vergil fight.

For me personally, Spence-Stanionis is the way to go. Much better fight than Spence-Thurman plus it eliminates an extra WBA belt.

[champion4ever]

He's right and I just so happen to agree with him this time. Thurman has done absolutely nothing in the past 5-6 years to warrant a title shot at ESJ. He's had his time. Let the Stanionis', Ortiz' and the Jaron "Boots" Ennis' of the world have their time now.

[champion4ever]

Don’t feel a bit sorry for him, Stanionis, Schafer and Finkel all choose to take the step aside money so Errol could fight Ugas for the belt. Now that Vergil’s turn to fight for his mandatory position dude wants to cry about getting passover hopefully he learned his lesson about trusting Haymon and the crooked WBA

It was the right call to make. Spence was going for a unification bout against Yordenis Ugas at the time as Stanionis graciously moved aside to make that fight happen. Which is why he should get first dibs at Errol Spence, Jr and not Keith Thurman. The WBA has screwed him over big time in my opinion.

[Oregonian]

Apparently Crawford was paid 10 million to fight a nobody, what would you have done

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I would have done the same thing but listen to the casuals talk about “Boots should earn the Crawford fight by making a name for himself”. How the heck did Avanesyan make a name for himself to earn the Crawford fight?

It’s a pretty straightforward question.

[A_State501]

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“Wider boxing public”?? Who exactly should Boots fight to make a name for himself?
When Spence went to the UK to fight Brook, who has he beat to make a name for himself?
Whom did Avanesyan beat to make a name for himself and “ earn” a fight with Crawford?

Spence was Kell's mandatory when he went to the UK and fought him. He was also Tim Bradley's mandatory but Bradley said he couldn't fight him because he was in the wrong side of the street.

[Bronx2245]

“It’s not fair,” said Stanionis to BoxingScene.com. “The sport has to move on. He’s not active, he got injuries so you fix your injuries, you come back and you fight other fighters who is in line. You can’t skip the line, it’s not fair.”

Stanionis is on point, WBC is shameful! Thurman vs. Barrios should've never been made an "eliminator!" That's just as bad as creating a "Franchise" belt out of thin air!

[JLC]

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“Wider boxing public”?? Who exactly should Boots fight to make a name for himself?
When Spence went to the UK to fight Brook, who has he beat to make a name for himself?
Whom did Avanesyan beat to make a name for himself and “ earn” a fight with Crawford?

It’s called risk vs reward. It actually exists. Boots is 25x better than Avanysean. Fighting boots is a big risk so the reward should match.

[removed]

Thurman doesn't deserve a title shot.

[SteveM]

would love for Nevada commission to not sanction Thurman - like they refused (or was it Cali) to sanction Munguia vs GGG