Comments Thread For: Porter: Spence Isn't an Option Next; I'm Not Ranked By the IBF

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NEW YORK Shawn Porter acknowledged part of the reason he came to Barclays Center on Saturday night was to scout Errol Spence Jr. Spence still isn't an option for Porter's next fight. Like Spence, Porter prefers to fight Keith Thurman. Porter lost a close unanimous decision to Thurman in an entertaining welterweight title fight in June 2016 at Barclays Center and wants a rematch as soon as possible. The former IBF welterweight champion is the mandatory challenger for Thurman's WBC 147-pound championship, thus he'll eventually get his second shot at the unbeaten WBA/WBC champ unless someone knocks off Thurman before Porter gets the chance.
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[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

There’s no way the IBF would reject this fight if it was proposed. Porter is a former IBF champ FFS. Weak ass excuse from Porter. A lot of these guys at 147 aren’t very receptive when asked about fighting Spence.

[ELPacman]

Rofl. You can read it in the text the amount of nervous talk when mentioned Spence to any of these fighters. Spence Jr. the new Margarito @ 147lbs? lol. Not talking skills, just feared reputation, lol.

[HanzGruber]

Porter is a clown. He said months ago he didn't want the ibf. Now it's cause he's not ranked. He doesn't wanna get smoked. He didn't think spence would stop lamont

[Butch.McRae]

Watched the video on Fight Hype. These guys are embarrassing lol Spence doesn't have a mandatory. In fact two fights have to happen to put a mandatory qualifier in for the IBF . So he's free for a while.

These guys (Porter, Thurman, Garcia) will be doing these embarrassing interviews all year lol

Nothing beats Mosley's "tooth" excuse though. That was classic.

[Luilun]

Jose Benivedes is fighting February 3rd after being shot has Alex Arriza in camp. I think this is the only guy who can beat Spence at 147.

[Ray*]

WTF sort of answer is that? Wasn’t this guy the IBF champ before Brook dethrone him. He would be approved or ranked at IBF if he asked to. I know he doesn’t really want to fight spence because he came out with it many times for friendship reasons, but Spence has said it many times that he would fight Porter. Porter need to change his stance.

[Butch.McRae]

Jose Benivedes is fighting February 3rd after being shot has Alex Arriza in camp. I think this is the only guy who can beat Spence at 147.

Haha I see what you did there.

[Luilun]

Haha I see what you did there.

And that's what ? You are assuming he's on roids with Arizza

[Raimondo]

Spence is the boogeyman of 147 divivision. Like Golovkin was for Sturm , Quillin and Martinez at 160.