Keith Thurman was knocked out in the Amateurs!?

[SkillspayBills]

Are people genuinely ******ed? This means nothing in a professional bout, he's performed when the lights are on and that's what counts. Time and time again I see nonsense like this trying to discredit fighters. Foh

Sheesh your level of idiocy never ceases to amaze me. I'm talking about Thurman.... As an amateur. That's why the questions I ask in the thread.... Pertain to who do it AS AN AMATEUR. I didn't even mention being KO'd as a pro. This board needs a literacy test for users to post on it.

[SalimShady1212]

Sheesh your level of idiocy never ceases to amaze me. I'm talking about Thurman.... As an amateur. That's why the questions I ask in the thread.... Pertain to who do it AS AN AMATEUR. I didn't even mention being KO'd as a pro. This board needs a literacy test for users to post on it.

Funnily enough I graduate next month from university with the highest grade classification in the UK. Clearly shows your lack of intelligence to comprehend I was referring to other posters on this thread. Surely should have been blatantly obvious considering your post was completely ambiguous to Thurman's "lack" of ability.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Sheesh your level of idiocy never ceases to amaze me. I'm talking about Thurman.... As an amateur. That's why the questions I ask in the thread.... Pertain to who do it AS AN AMATEUR. I didn't even mention being KO'd as a pro. This board needs a literacy test for users to post on it.

Then you would fail. Please delete your account.

Haha just ****ing with you, fam.

[John Locke]

Well apparently Spence had never gone down or been dropped. I love hearing Ami stories. Like how Andrade and Thurman go way back to their wars then.

That's impressive if true, Spence was a pretty high level amateur.

Andrade and Thurman fought 4 times I believe, with Thurman winning the first one and Andrade winning the next 3. Andrade is one of the more underrated US fighters today, he was a great amateur with wins over guys like Thurman, Porter, Jacobs, Trout etc.

But back on topic, from what I've heard Thurman has been down a couple times in the amateurs, I know he traded knockdowns with Hatley, in a back and forth war. He was very crude and one-dimensonal as an amateur, by his own admission. You can still see it in his style today, he throws some crazy wild **** sometimes during exchanges.

I'm very much looking forward to Thurman vs Spence, if US boxing's popularity wasn't going through a dry spell right now, this fight would be getting a hellova lot more attention. It's one of the best welterweight fights in recent years.

[Eff Pandas]

Getting "KO'd" in the amateurs could mean as little as getting hit flush twice & being stunned for a second. They stop amateur fights over some rather mild sh^t. It doesn't really mean all that much.

I'd be curious to see it myself doe admittedly.

[NaijaD]

Getting "KO'd" in the amateurs could mean as little as getting hit flush twice & being stunned for a second. They stop amateur fights over some rather mild sh^t. It doesn't really mean all that much.

I'd be curious to see it myself doe admittedly.

Yeah that's true actually, Lewis KO'd Bowe in the amateur finals but that's nothing like a professional knockout.... some of those amateur stoppages would make a Howard Foster stoppage look brutally legit.

[John Locke]

14.00 onwards, Keith briefly talks about never being stopped before

[sicko]

I don't put too much into that! All of these guys are World Champions now and better NOW than they was back then when they was teenagers!