Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman in Advanced Talks For A July Showdown

[j.razor]

Hoping this happens instead of Manny/Floyd. I have no need to see that rematch. Manny/Thurman is more interesting

T.B.E. is retired. He's not coming back.

[mrlopez]

SOURCES: Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman are in advanced talks for a pay-per-view welterweight title showdown that’s being targeted for July 13. No deal yet but it’s expected to be completed #boxing

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) April 1, 2019

No surprise, and I'm sure we will get Spence/Porter unification bout a little after that.

Winners face off late 2019 or early 2020? If not, then hopefully Crawford vs Spence/Porter winner in early 2020.

4, possibly 5 ppvs this year coming from haymon/pbc?! Ftp...drowning the market in ppvs, way to go

[giant_king]

Easy win for pac on this fight if it goes down

[KTFOKING]

4, possibly 5 ppvs this year coming from haymon/pbc?! Ftp...drowning the market in ppvs, way to go

Well, Pacquiao's fights were always going to be PPV so you could pretty much have noted two PPVs for his fights.

Then Spence/Garcia for their guarantee was going to be on PPV so that is three.....But because that fight did well in terms of buys, it's leading to the Porter fight being on PPV, which it really shouldn't. But Porter isn't taking the fight unless he gets a similar type of guarantee that Garcia got.

Canelo leaving the PPV market didn't end PPVs for good, what it did was opened up two slots for someone else to step in. That fighter right now looks to be Spence. I mean TR are running their own PPV and may run one for Fury later this year or Lomachenko, but PPVs are far from being finished. What to watch for now is if PPVs take the middle man out aka the cable distributors and go straight on the ESPN+ or Fox Go app like what happened with the UFC?

[j.razor]

Good for Keith.

[paulf]

I am so into this matchup, hope it happens

[Eff Pandas]

if there ever was a time to bet on a fight, i think this one is it right here.

Pac just came off "dominating" broner , albeit in a uneventful fight..

while thurman clearly won but was badly hurt in his last fight. the narrative will be that he "struggled"

So im guessing the betting line will be about even. god forbid they might even place a 40 year old pac as the favorite. i happen to believe pac has looked as good as he has in his last two fights because of his opponents. thurman is still much bigger, fresher, and stronger then pacman. im a pac fan but i think this is the one he gets dominated and officially stamps his ticket out of the WW picture

Man idk.

Thurman has looked highly beatable during his reign & seemingly coulda gotten KO'd to Josesito ffs. Manny is old as sh^t & not who he used to be obviously, but I could see his activity & power giving Thurman problems + winning rounds.

I think I'm more apt to avoid this one or bet the dog if the dog odds are nice enough. And I expect Manny to be the dog here but how much of a dog idk.

[IceTrayDaGang]

bu bu but manny likes to fight guys coming off a loss. Robbie Barrett

[champion4ever]

If Pac wins, he will eventually fight Spence but Keith Thurman won't. I may be wrong but it's highly unlikely that the winner of these two fight will fight the winner of Porter/Spence next.

[Bmore18]

Love love love this!!! I would happily pay the PPV for this fight. Probably one on Showtime one on Fox? Great job PBC putting many of these guys on big Fox to get more publicity and then cash in on PPV