How good was prime Keith "One Time" Thurman?

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  1. Dannymita

    Dannymita Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hard to tell ..very short prime..but did someone say top 25 welters of all time? Is he **** lol
     
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  2. KO KIDD

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    Showed promise unified a few titles then just flamed out. Never liked the way he dodged Spence

    Fought pretty well against Pacquiao
     
  3. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Keith was really, really good. He showed glimpses of greatness. But never quite reached it. And they didn't put him in easy, as he came up they put him in with almost every stylistic foil and he passed with flying colors. His problem started when his body started breaking down and he turned into some kind of zen master that wanted to travel around Bali and blow didgeridoos horns :confused::facepalm:

    With all those things, he just doesn't have a thirst to really be a top gun anymore IMO
     
  4. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Prime flute playing Keithy could crack. He ruined a lot of those fighters who lasted the distance against him. That's what Keithy do.

    You can count of one hand the amount of punchers Terry and Errol have fought between them and still have fingers left spare, especially ones their own size. The only one I can think of Terry has fought is Egis and he hurt and dropped him and Errol pulls ouch that hurt little girl faces when he gets hit by non-punchers or average hitters at best and he keeps having to spit his mouthpiece out to buy himself time when he's been hurt. Trust me if Keithy with his lovely skills and power detonated on either of mandible sections they'd hit the canvas hard.
     
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  5. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    That was prime Ghost and Keithy beat every ounce of the prime out of his body and he was shot to bits after that fight.

    The Ghost was 32-2-1 going into that fight and one of those losses was to a prime Money Mayweather in a fight many feel he won and the other was an early career SD loss.

    But post Keithy Ghost went 1-3 in his next 4 fights and the solitary win was a SD against a janitor which he clearly lost. So post Keithy Ghost, in reality, lost his next four fights on the spin.
     
  6. YCGS

    YCGS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm not trying to be disrespectful but that just sounds like crazy talk to me. Thurman is soft and Spence's bodyshots would do in Thurman well before he could crack Spence's chin.
    Thurman gets a booboo and vanishes for 2 years, Spence gets thrown from a 200kph wreck and is taking on top fighters within a year
     
  7. Serge

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    Not saying I'd pick Keithy to beat them but I definitely see both of them eating a slice of canvas pie if he detonated on their mandible sections, both of which are defective.

    With the exception of Brook and Porter, Spence has been dining exclusively down at the Career 140 Cafe and he never orders bangers. Keithy is a natural 147 and he can crack.
     
  8. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    He proved to be way better than what I was willing to admit. He was damn good.
     
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