Comments Thread For: Roach: 'I Would Love' to Have Pacquiao Fight Keith Thurman

[Mammoth]

I'd love to see it. Or Pacquiao could just retire? One of the two.

[AL_Camino]

It is obvious that the people commenting are trolls, fanboys, or novices to the sport. Manny is the best and most accomplished WW in the world, whether you like it or not. Thurman is number two and has passed Kell Brook.


I give Manny the edge against Thurman, Garcia, Broner, and Crawford. This is boxing and he can get totally OLD in one fight but until that happens, he has better tools than them all. You guys forget intangibles when predicting a lot of these fights. Thurman does a lot of unnecessary moving. He is wild. His defense is leaky. Manny's defense is tight, Manny is a master fainter. Manny is smarter, faster, and very strong himself. What is Thurman going to do with all of that?

A non biased, general fan of the sport would never discredit what pacquiao has done for the sport. He accomplished everything and entertained millions. hes done it all. Yes hes lost a couple times, been stopped, had behind the scenes drama, like anyone else has, but the guy is a great role model, although a tad too extreme with religion for my taste, but he deserve all the praise he gets. i mean to come back from such a brutal ko and still be on top is a rare thing.

[Thraxox]

Pac's footwork alone is enough to befuddle Thurman. Plus he uses angles and lands from odd stances and has greater speed and work rate. Pac UD over Thurman.

If Thurman's going to fight pacquiao with those ultra wide telegraphed right hooks and lefts in the Garcia fight and Porter fight, Pacquiao would have a field day with him, Thurman can't even seem to show that he could dodge a looping left hook from Porter.

[Drew Bundini Br]

JMM 4x

MORALES 3X

BRADLEY 2X

BERRERRA 2X

PAC fights more of the same guys than any other fighter of the era!!

[WesternChamp]

JMM 4x

MORALES 3X

BRADLEY 2X

BERRERRA 2X

PAC fights more of the same guys than any other fighter of the era!!

and those were some of his toughest fights, some even said he lost in a few of those fights... but yeah, arum protecting him doe!

[HarvardBlue]

Crawford and Thurman pose the same problems for Pacquiao. They have size advantage, move well, can box, and have punching power. Those attributes will keep these fights from happening. Roach isn't letting Pacquiao near either one of them. Their best bet is to try to make a fight with cement feet Danny Garcia. No one was taking a fight with Khan seriously because the last time we saw him he was unconscious.

[WesternChamp]

Crawford and Thurman pose the same problems for Pacquiao. They have size advantage, move well, can box, and have punching power. Those attributes will keep these fights from happening. Roach isn't letting Pacquiao near either one of them. Their best bet is to try to make a fight with cement feet Danny Garcia. No one was taking a fight with Khan seriously because the last time we saw him he was unconscious.

yet, they were trying to get a 5th fight with marquez. yes, the same marquez that put manny to sleep (and having fans from other fighters ride off of it like their fighter was the one to do it). so your logic of roach keeping pac from power puncher goes out the window.

[Drew Bundini Br]

Question of the day is who's the biggest lier btw ARUM,PAC and ROACH? Let that marinate around your brain cells! Hahaha!

[Drew Bundini Br]

PAC should fight THURMAN or winner of SPENCE vs BROOK!

[HURTFEELINGS]

what? "puncher" has Pac fought since JMM left him for dead?