Comments Thread For: Is Thurman The Forgotten Man On The Pound For Pound List?

[sammybee]

Thurman will return in 2018 for a unification. He is the number one welterweight on my list.

[Drew Bundini Br]

Thurman needs at least 1 tuneup to see if injured shoulder is fully healed b4 he fights a top contender.

[Shadoww702]

Thurman needs at least 1 tuneup to see if injured shoulder is fully healed b4 he fights a top contender.

Yeah! And it needs to be against a guy that can give him some rounds but isn't too much of a threat. That way he'll know if it can stand up for 12 rounds. He doesn't want to be going into a dog fight and find out his shoulder goes out on him in the 6-7th round...

[Steven Mccowan]

I remember when some morons saying garcia was gonna beat him lol. Dude is a fun fighter with real skills. Unfortunately he is really inactive and will fight a bum for his annual return next yr. I personally love watching him fight

[Steven Mccowan]

Thurman will return in 2018 for a unification. He is the number one welterweight on my list.

Yeah he is the number 1 ww imo too.

[Steven Mccowan]

Yeah how the fk did welter go cold and 154/160 get hot so quick!

I always said ww was overrated. It was an illusion created by who the opponents of the considered top 4-5 guys were. And then it was revealed that garcia is a b- level fighter. Porter a b level fighter. Brook got his face broke and now spence seems like a real deal but its still widely unproven. Which left thurman as the ww king. Inactivity and opponent choices had the public at large fooled

[rrayvez]

To me, Thurman looks to be a front runner that hasn't yet met the opponent that can drown him in the later rounds. He shows this tendency vs anyone who can take his power shots for the first 5 rounds. He goes into cruise control because he tires. Porter was too wild to take advantage of a tired Thurman and garcia was too inactive. Sharpshooters with stamina such as Spence or Crawford would beat him up late in the fight imo.

[HarvardBlue]

The P4P list is a popularity contest. Thurman should be in the Top 10 but you don't have an entire network or a rabid fan base telling us how special he is every day. His resume is as good if not better than some of the fan favorites or some of the boxers they're saying are ahead of him.

[IMDAZED]

Thurman is top five IMO. Back to back wins over two excellent fighters, good skills...yeah. If GGG can be top 3 p4p with wins like Rosado and Murray, how can Thurman not be?

[Combat Talk Radio]

BoxRec's ranking is the most fair and justifiable. Notice, they DO have Thurman listed, though a bit low.

1 Saul Alvarez
2 Terence Crawford
3 Gennady Golovkin
4 Vasyl Lomachenko*
5 Wisaksil Wangek*
6 Anthony Joshua*
7 Jeff Horn
8 Luis Nery*
9 Miguel Berchelt*
10 Keith Thurman

Because it's based on the core question: Who'd you beat recently, and how many of those who's did you beat?

Nery is a bit suspect given he failed a test enroute to that win.

Notice no Rigo and that's because he hasn't beaten anyone worth mentioning RECENTLY.

Spence isn't there - he's a personal P4P for me, but the only real name he's beaten is Brook.

I personally think Crawford's too high, but I get it: he schooled Postol, who was high because he schooled Matthysse.

The problem is too many people are even making excuses for the rankings. I've heard crap like "resume don't matter" and "don't matter how long ago that was" and "X fighter was washed up when they fought". No. It's "who have you beat recently?" That's all that should matter; but people see fighters they don't like up there (Jeff "The Hornet" Horn) and start making excuses for their fighter that lost.

But all Thurman would have to do is unify with Jeff "The Hornet" Horn - who BTW is still # 1 Welterweight in the World, not Thurman - and boom, he'll shoot up. As well he should.