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Shawn Porter wants WBC, WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) to stop stalling and fight him or someone else of relevance at 147-pounds. Thurman won a tough twelve round unanimous decision over Porter (28-2-1, 17 KOs) in June of 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has revealed that his organization granted a special permit to welterweight champion Keith Thurman, so he could make an optional defense on May 19th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. However, following that voluntary defense - Thurman is then bound to fulfill back to back mandatory obligations - against Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia.
Three division world champion Mikey Garcia (37-0, 30 KOs) says the welterweight division is certainly in his future. Garcia back on March 10th, when he goes for his fourth divisional title in a showdown with undefeated junior welterweight champion Sergey Lipinets. Provided he wins, one fight that Garcia wants to do before heading up in weight is a unification with WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares.
WBC, WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) may technically have back to back mandatory defenses in his future. Thurman is scheduled to make a voluntary defense on May 19th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The opponent has yet to be determined. Thurman has been out of the ring since winning a twelve round split decision over Danny Garcia last March to unify the welterweight belts.
Danny Garcia wasn’t the only welterweight Shawn Porter confronted Saturday night. Porter interrupted Keith Thurman’s interview session with a group of reporters before Garcia’s fight and questioned the unbeaten WBA/WBC champion about when he’ll get his mandated rematch. Porter was much more respectful of Thurman, with whom he has a cordial relationship, than when he challenged Garcia in the ring following Garcia’s ninth-round technical knockout of Brandon Rios at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
On Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, former two-division world champion Danny Garcia is looking for a much bigger fight after a sensational knockout of Brandon Rios in their WBC welterweight title eliminator. It was Garcia's first fight since dropping a close twelve round split-decision to Keith Thurman in their WBC, WBA welterweight unification in March of 2017 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas - WBC, WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) is not bothered by the fact that most experts have him pegged as the underdog when it comes to a potential unification with IBF champion Errol 'The Truth' Spence (23-0, 20 KOs). Thurman has been away from the ring since March 2017, when he won a twelve round split decision over Danny Garcia to unify their welterweight titles.
On Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, WBC/WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman, and his mandatory challenger Shawn Porter, sat down to negotiate back and forth on their rematch.
As the action was going on at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas - WBC, WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman and his mandatory challenger Shawn Porter had a confrontation backstage and traded words.
Danny Garcia (33-1, 19 KOs) believes that welterweight rival, Keith Thurman, took a lot more punishment in their unification showdown a year ago. Last March, Thurman handed Garcia his first career defeat with a twelve round split decision at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. In the process, Thurman unified the WBC, WBA welterweight titles.