Keith Thurman ... What are his plans

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Keith Thurman ... What are his plans

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1 Time beat Danny Garcia in NYC clean.
Who's Thurman looking at down the road ?
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He should fight Brook vs Spence winner.
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He mentioned he wants Pacquiao next.
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How does the hot fighter at 147 play second fiddle to anyone ?
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I like him, he gets good opponents. Clearly the best cv at 147 (not including Pacquaio), but I don't think he is the best 147, though he deserves his number 1 spot... if that makes sense.

Porter rematch
Crawford
Pacquaio
Spence (if he beats brook)
Brook (if he beats Spence I think only the Thurman fight will keep him at 147)

Are the best fights for him imo
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Ossyrules wrote:I like him, he gets good opponents. Clearly the best cv at 147 (not including Pacquaio), but I don't think he is the best 147, though he deserves his number 1 spot... if that makes sense.

Porter rematch
Crawford
Pacquaio
Spence (if he beats brook)
Brook (if he beats Spence I think only the Thurman fight will keep him at 147)

Are the best fights for him imo
No reason to rematch Porter for the time being. Crawford has plenty of business at 140 at the moment. Pac is on a world tour and they seem to bd looking to go down in weight for Mikey.

Brook v Spence victor is the fight.
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Tanzio wrote:
Ossyrules wrote:I like him, he gets good opponents. Clearly the best cv at 147 (not including Pacquaio), but I don't think he is the best 147, though he deserves his number 1 spot... if that makes sense.

Porter rematch
Crawford
Pacquaio
Spence (if he beats brook)
Brook (if he beats Spence I think only the Thurman fight will keep him at 147)

Are the best fights for him imo
No reason to rematch Porter for the time being. Crawford has plenty of business at 140 at the moment. Pac is on a world tour and they seem to bd looking to go down in weight for Mikey.

Brook v Spence victor is the fight.
My list was more "ideals" than who was in a realistic position to negotiate a fight next week.

Disagree re porter. That was a great fight and deserved a rematch from the off. Very close decision could have gone either way. Anyone who says Garcia deserves a rematch needs to watch the porter fight first.
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He'll likely end up fighting Peterson.
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Hallelujah for Keith Thurman.

A genuine top class fighter & champion who is willing to face the best in a tough division.

It's a shame there aren't more fighters like him around.
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Syntax Error wrote:Hallelujah for Keith Thurman.

A genuine top class fighter & champion who is willing to face the best in a tough division.

It's a shame there aren't more fighters like him around.
I was about to give you a :TU: but then I stopped to think about it.

Off the top of my head:

Chocolatito
Frampton
LSC
Mares
Lomassiah
Linares
Hitman Jr.
The Indongo
Postol
Spence
Brook
Porter
3G
Jacobs
Lemieux
Jack
DeGale
Groves
Krusher
SOGgy
Nail
Lebedev
Gassiev
Usyk
Ruiz
AJ
Wlad
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I'd like to see him box the winner of Brook-Spence
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Oiky wrote:I'd like to see him box the winner of Brook-Spence
He had a chance to fight Spence for a vacant belt before he had one.
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I like Thurman. I'd like to see the Brook/Spence winner or Pac...though I'm hoping Horn beats Pac so then no point.
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Thurman - Pacquiao would be pretty epic, but Arum is going to sacrifice Pacman to Crawford when he moves up to 147.

So the best fight after that would be Brook-Spence winner.
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Whoever he fights hopefully he can stay active. Only had 2 fights since the summer of 2015. He's in his prime right now and should make the most of it.
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Probably should fight Lamont Peterson why waiting for other things to open up.
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Thurman vs Peterson may end up being a great fight. Peterson is a good boxer, and in my opinion beat Garcia.
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Yeah that's a credible fight
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Should be Pacquiao, but Manny is on his retirement tour fighting fringe contenders for $5m a pop, so I doubt he'll have much interest.

Maybe he can move up to 154 and fight Lara?
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