Comments Thread For: Thurman: Won't Be as Easy for Crawford at 147 as It Was at 140

[Afi23]

crawford is the goods. he gives garcia another L and the bull rush porter will get outboxed with footwork. the fights i would like to see is thurman/crawford or mikey garcia/crawford at 140 or 147.

I'm surprised Garcia vs Crawford at 140 didn't get more traction especially after Bud had all 4 belts.

[Dean_Razorback]

yeah, you should tell him to duck spence, just like you are doing

[ceylon mooney]

thurman porter 2 is mandatory. good chance even that wont happen in 2018.

[My Low Place]

Algeriei s nothing to brag about but hopefully these guys stop finding ways to avoid fights.

im only stating that he was a visitor to welterweight.. and lets remember he did beat provo after getting on the canvas in the first round

[Realizniguhnit]

Keith talking about theses "kids" coming up from 140 but he was the same guy on his bike running from Garcia for the 2nd half of the fight.......

Naturally both Garcia and Crawford are actually physically bigger than Thurman. Just because Thurman body maxed out doesn't mean other guys don't continue to grow. Even Mayweather has longer/bigger frame than Thurman does.

Floyd didn't even start fighting at welterweight until he was about 29 years old around the same age most guys moving up from 140 are now...

Pick your poison Thurman. You want these 140 pounders coming up that are actually bigger than you or do you want Spence who started his career above 150lbs?

[P4Pdunny]

Lispy working on excuses nice and early

[Bjl12]

WW fighter tells former LW and JWW fighter that moving up and succeeding at WW "won't be as easy".

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Keith

[GhostofDempsey]

lol. Let's see how "relevant" thurmans next opponent is. All he seems to be doing nowadays is finding reasons to not fight spence and now Crawford

He fought and defeated Porter and Garcia, two of the top WW. His next opponent is a tune-up coming off elbow surgery. I suspect he will rematch either Porter or Garcia after. Not much to criticize there.

[Oluminati]

Why is so hard for these guys to fight each other? All these guys under Haymon refuse to fight each other so it doesn't matter what Crawford does, they are going to keep making of excuses why he doesn't deserve a fight against them! That's the worst thing about Haymon coming into the boxing game and signing all those fighters. His top guys fighting each other are far in between.

Let's not forget that Danny and Porter did fight Keith, and Badou Jack fought Degale for the lineal title. I think they just don't want it with Spence. It's unfortunate that Al probably won't be able to match these guys with Spence in 2018 but I'm very confident he can get it done in 2019.

[chrisJS]

I like Thurman he seems like a nice guy and he's a very good fighter but he sounds an awful lot like a guy coming up with reasons to not fight the fights that the public think are the biggest threats/best fights available.

Just an observation.