Comments Thread For: Keith Thurman irked by ref jumping in ?like a white rabbit? to stop fight

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Keith Thurman, despite a pillar-to-post beating, took issue with referee Thomas Taylor stopping the fight in Thurman's sixth-round stoppage loss to Sebastian Fundora on Saturday.
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[boxingitis]

Are we still talking about Thurman?

The guy has been done for years.

[Knuckle sandwich]

Fundora was denied the opportunity of knocking one time Thurman out

[richardt]

Thurman was an ancient midget in there getting the crap kicked out of him. He was bruised, cut, and wearing a crimson mask and done for.

[steeve steel]

"First off, it was just a great fight" LOL.No it wasn't! Is was a one sided beat down. Keith "no time left" has a severe case of KHANitis, with symptoms ranging from narcissism to extreme delusion.

[Moz_boxing]

I agree and disagree. I disagree with him being so confident and painting the narrative that he was just waiting for Fundora too make a mistake but I agree heavily it was a BS stoppage from one of the best refs out there.

It's not like the ref did a mistake in his view (refs view) it's just that our society became soft, scared and obsessed with saftey in every kind. This is by design and the system benefits from it. But at the end this is Boxing and as a boxer you sign up for that and if you yourself are so concerned about not taking damage either don't fight at all or just tell your corner to stop the fight in these situations.

Thurman had facial damage yes but in the first few rounds he absorbed only a handful of clean punches and it was just the end of the round before and the round in which the fight got stopped in which he got touched up and even in the final sequence nothing landed at all. He was never really hurt or down and it was not like he took 8 rounds of heavy punishment it was just a stoppage i will never understand as we train for exactly this and in sparring every fighter took way way more damage this is nothing special every boxer experienced worse before and nobody makes a big deal out of it that just the sport.

This was not a Spence vs Crawford situation i believe 2-3 more rounds and the fight would/should be over ref stepping in or maybe Thurman gets stopped but at the end it's boxing like i said and i saw plenty of fights especially fights from the old days in which fighters turned a one sided beatdown around so you never know. Spence Crawford was the perfect example of when to stop a fight but this was just too early he was was defensive responsible and literally blocking every shot before the ref jumped in.

[boxingitis]

Probably not even Crawford could be Fundora. Crawford has never face anyone with a longer reach than him.

[Corelone]

Thurman has a bad habit of getting lumped up. Even when he wins his head gets swollen. This time, it looked like the white rabbit saved a racoon. No disrespect, but his eyes had the commentators crying in the fifth. It was kind of sad watching the talented Kieth scurry around, trying to duck a hail of meteors.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Ok Fundora beat an old semi retired ancient welterweight, that has fought about 3 times in the last 7 years. Move on please.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Probably not even Crawford could be Fundora. Crawford has never face anyone with a longer reach than him.

Can we stop hyping Fundora, the guy that was stopped by Mendoza?