Comments Thread For: Thurman: My Biggest Mistake In 2019 Was My Weight Management

[ruedboy]

I make you right. But the lure of facing of to a legend was to great plus the biggest pay day of his career , the guy was doomed from the get go. Where was he's trainers in the gym to tell him hey Keith you ain't ready for Pac Man, your GONER sacrifice your unbeaten record for the Bread it's a fight you can't win at this time so for get it take another fight 1st then lets see after that.

True, it's hard to turn down the big money and Thurman don't seem like a guy who listens to other people anyway. I like Manny but he was lucky to get Thurman at the right time.

[kingstip9]

Pacquiaos just a much better fighter and boxer. Even well past his prime, he had no trouble to UD Keith Thurman. Who I’ve never been wowed with.

[Ca$ual Fan]

I think Thurman's biggest mistake was fighting Pac after just one comeback fight. Thurman would have done better if he had one more tune up before fighting Manny.

The fight against Manny was the 2nd tune up fight plus a bonus payday. 2019 was his get-back year. He never considered him a real challenge. Real match-ups were supposed to be against Crawford and Spence.

[Monty Fisto]

I think fighters should just admit the other guy was better regardless of what went wrong leading up to the fight or while in the fight. And don’t start a sentence with, “I’m not making excuses,” but then you go on to say a bunch of excuses or create excuses months later when someone asks you a about the fight or during an interview. It comes off like sour g****s. I guess it’s pride or ego for these guys when they lose. But you come off better when you just admit the other guy was better.

There are excuses and then there is admitting you screwed up. Thurman here is doing the latter. I agree with your admonishment about starting a sentence with 'I'm not making excuses' and then going on to make an excuse -- but at the same time, he doesn't do that.

He is effectively saying: I did this thing, it was ******, and I'm kicking myself over it. I can completely understand that. He is admitting culpability. He is not saying some external factor happened to him beyond his control and otherwise he'd have won.

I have no problem with a fighter owning up to a fault.

[Bluebird]

True, it's hard to turn down the big money and Thurman don't seem like a guy who listens to other people anyway. I like Manny but he was lucky to get Thurman at the right time.

I like Thurman but it goes both ways, Thurman was lucky to get a 40 years old Pac instead of a 35 years old version.

[ruedboy]

I like Thurman but it goes both ways, Thurman was lucky to get a 40 years old Pac instead of a 35 years old version.

True, Keith was world class, Manny was legendary.

[marikudo]

T-rex

Thurman “The Loud Mouthed” was high on drugs. He thought that he can beat the Great and Legendary T-Rex. He was shamed big time.

[ptek]

Thurman “The Loud Mouthed” was high on drugs. He thought that he can beat the Great and Legendary T-Rex. He was shamed big time.

It's called promoting the fight mate