Thurman: "the whole division is ducking me"

[Da Machine]

Thurman is suffering from the fact there are a lot of established names at 147. They want to fight each other. Not the up and comer.

[kiaba360]

Thurman will turn 26 this year, he still has time. By this time next year, Floyd should be retired and the belts will be up for grabs. All he has to do is keep improving, keep winning and stay healthy.

[bojangles1987]

Really sucks that he's fighting Julio Diaz. Such a step down.

[bojangles1987]

Maidana ruins Thurman.

Maidana ducked the **** out of One Time.

[fundicao]

Maidana never duck thurman

[Grimgash]

Thurman vs brook in a #1 contender fight, or title fight vs porter seem to be the most logical opponents..

Him vs ghost was discussed but ghost turned it down

The only guys that are probably willing to fight Thurman are old vets looking for paydays like Julio Diaz, Pauli, zab,

Porter wanted to if I remember but the offer made to him was pathetic for him to accept...I think they want what I suggested in paulie, brook, and floyd. If they both win their fights in 2015 it'd be 3 belts on the line.

[Grimgash]

Maidana never duck thurman

He absolutely did...

[fundicao]

He absolutely did...

DAN RAFAEL JULY 3 2012

• Junior welterweight titlist Marcos Maidana (31-3, 28 KOs), coming off a virtual shutout decision loss to Devon Alexander in February, was slated to remain at the welterweight division and face untested Keith Thurman (17-0, 16 KOs) on the Adrien Broner-Vicente Escobedo undercard on July 21. Thurman was somehow approved for an HBO telecast despite zero credentials and a padded record that includes wins against 10 opponents with records of .500 or below. But Maidana saved us the trouble of the ridiculous fight by declining Golden Boy's offer.

Although HBO and Golden Boy talked as though the fight was made, Maidana's adviser, Sebastian Contursi, told ESPN.com that it was not finalized. Contursi said Golden Boy presented Maidana with three options for July: Alfonso Gomez, Shawn Porter and Thurman.

Contursi said they couldn't agree on money for the Gomez fight. He said that although they accepted Porter (for the July 14 Amir Khan-Danny Garcia undercard), Golden Boy told him Porter's side turned down the fight, leaving Maidana with the even more unknown Thurman.

"We accepted [Thurman] in principle, but we never even finalized negotiations," Contursi said. “In fact, we were supposed to fight July 14 in Las Vegas, and out of nothing, we were told it was gonna be on July 21 in Cincinnati. We wonder who might be that interested in seeing that fight take place when Thurman is an unknown fighter but naturally much bigger than Maidana [physically]. Maidana is under contract with [Golden Boy] and Thurman is not, so what is the point of making that fight in the first place?"

(That's easy: Thurman is with powerful adviser Al Haymon, who usually gets what he wants at HBO and Showtime.)

Contursi added: "Even though we admit that Maidana looked bad and lost his last fight, we don't think he should be facing an eight-round [fighter]. Can you think of any other case where a world champion that has earned his name has faced an eight-round fighter?"

So Maidana-Thurman, thankfully, is off. But Maidana's next move is up in the air, and Golden Boy and HBO are stuck trying to make a new fight for Thurman, who never should have been approved to be on the network in the first place

[RowdyMind]

Thurman just needs to keep winning, the big names in the division cant avoid him forever

[DoubleLeftH00k]

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i have a feeling this dude is another hype golden boy created waiting to be EXPOSED

dude looks chinny if u ask me