Keith Thurman's route to Spence

[Gigantes]

Champs should only fight champs and top 10 opponents......like every other sport playoff teams only play playoff teams... top 10 opponents are the playoff....keith is milking this.... he let his fighting do the talking before he got the belt now all he does is talk ala Mikey Garcia.... Please STFU and fight a live body

He needs to unify with Spence at the end of this year. Period.

Hell no. He gets one tune up fight with a guy ranked in the lower top 10 and then Spence should be his next fight in late 2018 in my opinion. World titles belong to all boxers. They don't become the personal property of the current title holder to defend only when he wants to against poor opposition.Leonard came back from years of not fighting to fight Hagler with no tune up fight. It's too bad he was injured but it's his problem and not the problem of the whole welterweight division. Putting the Spence fight off for two years or 4 fights from now is ducking. After he has 3 more fights and it's time to fight Spence two years from now he can then come up with another excuse. He turned me into an ex fan.

Nicely said, I agree.

[suffolkbull3]

one thing is absolute certain, thurman is running out of time and hes running out of excuses.. he has told us all that 2018 will be a get back year, so after he fights his tuneup, then his mandatory, he has no choice, he HAS to fight spence. there are no more excuses, he has exhausted them all. So if he does not fight spence in his 3rd fight back, he will get the worst flaming ever saw to man kind. we have backed him into a corner so he MUST fight spence! his other options are to retire, or vacate his belts. There is no other choice for him... the only other thing he could do is fake an injury. that is the only possible way he will be able to hold onto those belts for a little while longer.

im not so sure he even gets passed his mandatory whether it be porter or garcia. i sure hope he does.

[lolpz]

I view it like this, if both guys want the fight it should be made. Spence wants it, and Thurman claims he does want the fight - then make it happen.

[NC Uppercut]

Give him the tune up. After that, he needs to fight Spence.

Well said my friend! If it isn’t Spence next, it better be craw daddy; aka Bud... He needs to show genuinely he wants it still!

[KillaMane26]

Thurman is coming off an injury while Spence been taking on top competition and crushing them. So I understand that Keith wants to be 120% ready b4 fighting this monster.

And most was saying that he was ****** to use Vargas as a tune up. Now we trashing him for nor

Let's see what Keith does after a tuneup b4 we trash 1time

[Dodger07]

Keith deserves his easy tuneup this first fight back. Im probably in the minority but I honestly wouldn't mind a rematch with shawn porter at the end of the year tbh. First fight was great, shawn is a legit top 3-5 ww and is also keiths mandatory. But If Keith STILL doesn't fight Spence after that then that's bullschit

[KillaCamNZ]

Unfortunately, Thurman doesn't get a pass for this latest injury, as he was already on the edge of acceptable timings to begin with.

When you're responsible for not making big fights, then you get injured - you don't deserve a clean slate for your original problem.

His plan has been a load of **** for years - I don't think he had any real intention of running a gauntlet, or anything close to it.

[-Kev-]

You guys are always so eager to see injured fighters fighting, to then have a dull fight because the fighter was not 100% and complain about how in hindsight the fight should've been postponed or a rematch is needed with the injured fighter at 100%. I like both guys and wish success for both, but i'm not interested in seeing a fight with an injured fighter who may turn in a dull performance.

[HURTFEELINGS]

Call Colonel Pac, get him in some "salt water". If it heels "severely" torn rotator cuffs in a month it should heal whatever ails Keith.