Comments Thread For: Thurman-Porter in Play For March 5 on CBS

[skinnystev]

what is so highly anticipated about this fight porter already lost to brook who is the champion why don't thurman just go ahead and fight brook why not because al hymie sez no

[-PBP-]

what is so highly anticipated about this fight porter already lost to brook who is the champion why don't thurman just go ahead and fight brook why not because al hymie sez no

So it's a bad fight because Porter has a loss? Boxing fans ****in suck. No wonder fighters duck and cherry pick so much.

[wrecksracer]

This should be an interesting fight. I think Porter does his best work in close, and Thurman does his best work at a distance. Who will be able to impose their style? Thurman is kind of untested against elite opposition. Porter lost to Brook. I don't know.....I'm going with Porter.

[Eff Pandas]

Looking forward to this fight. Feel like it should be a good one.

Hope they co-headline it was a top 5 fight between guys at 126 or 154. Hope they get this card as a super bowl ad + do some side programming to hype it up just a lil more. This is the perfect time, will have been 1 year of PBC. Gotta go big.

[LOCOMEX89]

Make up your Mind

First it was December, then January, then February, and now March. Can these guys make up their mind already and decide if their going to step in the ring with each other?

If not they both need to move on. Their are plenty other options for them out there to face and fight.

[Arma316]

I suppose Thurman wins, but it's no sure thing.

He showed vulnerability in his last 2 fights.

[Butch.McRae]

To grow the sport's popularity, that would require some actual promoting on the part of PBC. They don't seem to grasp the whole marketing and advertising aspect.

How so? The PBC has grown the profile of its stable of fighters significantly over the last year. Guys like Artur Beterbiev, Julian Williams, Charles Martin, Deontay Wilder, Errol Spence, Erik Lubin, both Charlo brothers, etc. (the list goes on) have all seen there public profiles grow this past year. (& this doesn't include some of his well known fighters like Garcia, Porter, Stevenson, etc.)

I think it is very strange to say that a man who has a Harvard MBA and made close to half a billion dollars as a concert promoter and TV producer, does not get promotion. Especially when his stable is loaded with most of the rising top prospects in the sport. (see the new ESPN prospect list) When I see comments like this it strikes me as either bias or casual fandom.

[bojangles1987]

It is absolutely absurd that this is happening so long after both last fought.

[Cinci Champ]

its almost strange how people refuse to be happy about anything pbc

[Pigeons]

CBS in primetime. Can't ask for a better platform for this fight.