Comments Thread For: Keith Thurman: Two Fights - Then I'm Ready For Errol Spence!

[millcitymauler]

Damn Keith - I thought you were the “top of the ladder” LOL!

[Combat Talk Radio]

Funny how he held a stance on Errol not being ready for him and I think he also said Errol has to earn it...
So why in hell does Keith need to have two fights to be ready for Errol Spence?
Don't salute this type of shiet, I like Thurman, but I can't defend this.

Thurman has learned from The Best Ever. Fights like this need to marinate man!

[M Bison]

jesus f#cking christ. i remember him getting into some kind of motorcycle accident, explaining some of the inactivity, but you gotta blame his management and handlers for a 29 year old in his prime fighting so infrequently.

two fights? a fighter is asking for two fights? i undersatnd that his management might say and think this behind closed doors, and they should. but the fighter?

"well no, i'm not ready for him right now, he'd beat me. i gotta make some money first."
fighters are saying these things! the fighters!

fighters used to train and fight. they thought htey could beat any fighter in the world if they fought tomorrow. being ready for that fight was their job.

2 fights for him is an entire year and possibly he loses who knows... If you get injured I don't think it gives you the right to fight some no-hoper, absolutely not when you hold a world title in your possession.
The WBC and WBA need to press him.

I'm all fine with a boxer wanting to make money, but you can make that money by also fighting the best, perhaps just don't be as greedy which is 100% a big problem we have with 90% of the top tier guys.

Agree with that in bold, they're pricing themselves out on the big fights that they basically think they might lose, protecting this mythical 0 seems to matter more than giving back to the fans who support them.

[greeneye99]

This reminds of a scene from the movie 'A Bronx Tale', Louie is two weeks late paying 'C' twenty bucks he owes ; Calogero wants to split his wig because he knows Louie is ducking him, the wise guys thinks he should -- the BOSS ( 'C's' advisor ) thinks otherwise.

I would have to agree with Sonny, Keith 'Runtime' Thurman is not worth the trouble, hes a bum. Lets focus on a 'Real' Champion maybe Crawford will step up, then Spence can leave the division ; nobody has to chase that chicken. As of this point I hold Jeff Horn with more regard than 'Sometime' Keith Thurman as he is stepping up not 'ONE' but 'TWO' Times.

Casual fans quick to call a 2 time Champion a Bum when they don't get the fights they want to see right away
Hardcores get it

[New England]

The dude hasn't even returned from elbow surgery yet... wtf?

do you have any idea how many fighters have gone into fights with broken hands for paydays?

keith thurman is not floyd mayweather! he doesn't make all the rules and he still has a lot to prove.

this isn't an older guy saying, "i was injured, i'd like a tuneup." this is a young guy saying that he is unwilling to make the fight for an entire year and that he wants two paydays on national TV.


i don't have beef with a fighter allowing his management and promotional team guide his career. they should. but to see fighters in their primes becoming more and more comfortable with making excuses that push off big fights is deeply troubling, and goes damages the very fabric of what boxing is. pro boxers at the world championship level have historically had a level of confidence that's hard to understand. you ahve to think you can beat anybody, at any time. f#ck matchmaking! pay me and i'll fight. that's what i want to see in a boxer; confidence.

[greeneye99]

thurman just turned 29 a few months ago and is fighting once a year, GGG in his 30s was fighting 3 times a year. come on man

Lol you named one boxer where's the other WW?
GGG started late as a Pro he needed to fight to make a name for himself

[1hourRun]

Casual fans quick to call a 2 time Champion a Bum when they don't get the fights they want to see right away
Hardcores get it

You're a sucker!

[siablo14]

That's cool. Too bad Garcia or Porter won't fight Spence while we wait.

[New England]

2 fights for him is an entire year and possibly he loses who knows... If you get injured I don't think it gives you the right to fight some no-hoper, absolutely not when you hold a world title in your possession.
The WBC and WBA need to press him.

I'm all fine with a boxer wanting to make money, but you can make that money by also fighting the best, perhaps just don't be as greedy which is 100% a big problem we have with 90% of the top tier guys.

Agree with that in bold, they're pricing themselves out on the big fights that they basically think they might lose, protecting this mythical 0 seems to matter more than giving back to the fans who support them.

i read an article recently, basically an essay, where a writer proposed that the 0 in boxing has become the new championship belt, because there are literally four of them in each division, and they split them up even further, strip guys, won't unify, etc.

he was definitely on to something.

fighters used to lose on the way up. they'd be better for it as long as they didn't take huge punishment. lomachenko is a good example today. dude fought orlando salido in his second fight and took an L. he's so much f#cking better than gary russel, who fights cans and prices himself out of fights with b level guys, who has 2x the fights.

[greeneye99]

You're a sucker!

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