Comments Thread For: Teddy Atlas: Only Guy I See Beating Spence at 147 is Thurman

[rickJen]

Yup. If fans won't see at least one 10 sec uninterrupted exchange between the two, then Spence is avoiding it and would rather brawl his way in to force a clinch.

[Shadoww702]

Atlas: "Only Guy I See Beating Spence at 147 is Thurman"...

... me too... but I strongly doubt myself...

IDK?? I think Danny Garcia has a good style for Spence?? Good height, decent chin and a good left hook.

[rogdogx]

This is the fight at WW. A couple years ago the fight to be made was Thurman-Brook. We ended up getting Porter-Thurman but it delivered. To me that was a real pick em fight. I always leaned toward Thurman over Garcia but thought Porter had a real chance. Heck I felt Porter edged him that night with activity. Thurman wins rounds too closely and it hasn't cost him yet. I think that will cost him against an aggressive, skillful fighter like Spence. Spence is aggressive like Porter but has a higher ring iq. I think these two are the best two and last two standing (though Porter is right there). Pacman and Floyd are done fighting at the elite level I believe and may just fight lesser opponents for a living at this stage. I can't see anyone beating Errol. Thurman should fight him asap before he gets more experience under his belt. Thurman has a good bag of tricks and can take Errol to school early. Errol is just so relentless its going to be a tough task to take that 0. Outside of Errol, I cant see anybody beating Thurman except Porter. I always felt Thurman was that fighter that could really challenge Floyd. Its a shame Floyd jumped off the elite level and scrambled to Berto and McGregor instead. I lean toward Errol but Thurman is capable of hanging a decision on him.

[Sledgeweather17]

They said Algieri would expose the hype job Spence, and then turned around and called Algieri a bum when Spence KO'd him.

Then they jumped on the Brook bandwagon, said Brook would school, out hustle, out muscle, and knockout the hype job Spence. Then turned around and called Brook a bum quitter when Spence took him out.

Now they've jumped on to the Thurman bandwagon (gotta admire that athleticism to jump bandwagons so fast), wonder which bandwagon they'll jump on when he gets taken out with a body shot KO.

[LetOutTheCage]

Thurman beats Spence. Prior to gassing out and then quitting, Brook was causing Spence all sorts of problems and had him hurt a few times. Thurman is technically better than both and crucially is smarter than both. I could see him getting a points win or even a late KO.