Comments Thread For: Keith Thurman Gets Split Decision Over Danny Garcia To Unify

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Flew up from TN to take this one in, and don't feel cheated at all. Very solid fight. Got the result I expected and wanted. Don't know which fight the rest of the arena was watching. I thought Keith won pretty comfortably.

As for how the result changes the welterweight landscape, it really doesn't. IMO Brook and Thurman are the top guys in the division. I would rate Manny above both of them, but at this point, its hard to gage Manny's interest in the sport. To me he's kinda moonlighting and milking his fanbase for every penny he can until he genuinely retires from the sport. I think Brook and Thurman are kinda 1a and 1b, or 2a or 2b depending on how you view Manny. Thurman's resume is a lil better than Brook's. But, Brook was more impressive against Porter. Honestly, at this point, it doesn't really matter how you rate them. Thurman against the Brook-Spence winner is the obvious next step.

As for Danny, I never considered him a top welterweight to begin with. And last night did nothing but cement it. He doesn't have a single significant or relevant win at 47. And he was fighting last night for a shot at welterweight relevance, and fell short. He's a good, but not great fighter. I think Broner would be a good next opponent for him. He has a couple potential rematches with Khan or Peterson that would be interesting. But, I think Broner probably generates the most interest. If he's serious about trying to establish himself as a player in the division, Porter would be the perfect opponent after Shawn is done beating up Berto. But I doubt Angel would sign off on that. That would be an entertaining prefight buildup with the dads though.

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In round 4 after tasting Swift's power Thurman made a career decision to only engage enough to win rounds and he completely abandoned the thought of getting KO or even giving fans a good show.

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On the contrary, once Thurman gets a taste of Spence's powerful body shots he will disengage similar to what he did against Swift after round 4. No need to see another track meet.

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I just hate this word EXPOSED. Danny lost fight by SD, and now was he exposed???

I am not his fan, but c´mon, be fair, you guys expect fighters to take challenge, but once they lose you say they were EXPOSED...??

Danny has been unofficially exposed on two other occassions: herera and Peterson . The judges just got it right this time.

Garcia's deal with the devil is over.

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In round 4 after tasting Swift's power Thurman made a career decision to only engage enough to win rounds and he completely abandoned the thought of getting KO or even giving fans a good show.

I agree with that. The first round Thurman really went after Garcia and almost had him down. As the rounds went on, it looked like Thurman really had a lot of respect for Garcia's power, especially his left hook. He did a good job avoiding it, and you can tell it was a big part of his gameplan. He really did just enough to win the rounds, much like Floyd did against Pac. He would land one or two significant punches that would win that round and he was satisfied with that.

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Part of the narrative when it comes to Garcia. There will no doubt be some posters in here who will only give him 3-4 rounds for this fight. When it comes to Garcia, common sense goes out the window.

You mean when a Danny fan is salty, common sense goes out the window.

You seriously don't think this fight deserved to be a split decision, do you?

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In round 4 after tasting Swift's power Thurman made a career decision to only engage enough to win rounds and he completely abandoned the thought of getting KO or even giving fans a good show.

I don't think Thurman's adjustment had anything to do with Danny's power. It was obvious from the opening bell that Danny's sole focus was on landing a counter lefthook. So Thurman basically took that away from him by circling to Danny's right. And that basically made a fight that he was already winning even easier. Danny was totally clueless and basically was reduced to following Keith around the not throwing punches, allowing Keith to outhustle him. I think the adjustment Keith made had more to do with him hitting Danny with bombs in the first two rounds, and barely making a dent. So he opted to rack up points, stay outta harm's way, and get the W.

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I won't say it raised his stock, because he didn't fight well at all. But he's definitely still a top 5 ww. No shame in losing to the #1 guy in the division.

Danny isn't a top 5 welterweight. How can be be a top 5 welterweight when he hasn't beaten a single significant welterweight?

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Danny isn't a top 5 welterweight. How can be be a top 5 welterweight when he hasn't beaten a single significant welterweight?

Because who else has?

Thurman, manny, and brook...thats about it. I don't think there's anybody else that has a significant enough resume at ww, that you can definitively put ahead of him.

[E10Rifle]

Lol at all the 'Spence would ko both these bums' posts. Considering the kid is about to be mown down by Brook in his first world-level fight, that kind of talk is pretty disrespectful to Thurman and (to a lesser extent) Garcia.