The thing about Keith Thurman. He's just Ok.

Thurman loves to refer to himself in 3rd person. And he loves to refer to himself as "One Time" as a description of his boxer-puncher style. But the problem is he's not a huge puncher and he's not a particularly skilled boxer either. He's just uninspiring for lack of a better word. Don't get me wrong he's not a bum and he's clearly one of the top Welterweights in the world. It's just that he's not as good as he's hyped. His power doesn't ding the best fighters. His stamina is completely average as is his aggression. I still remember when I saw him fight old, small Robert Guerrero. We all know Guerrero is tough as nails, but come on. RG was in his grill late in that fight taking it Thurman, I mean actually busting him up. Little Guerrero. You would expect any Welterweight who calls themselves "one time" to destroy a guy like Guerrero when Robert was just walking in like that. After that I knew the hype was more than the talent and power.

In my opinion despite the popularity of 147 in recent years the division has been meh since the Margarito, Williams, Cotto days. Even Kell Brook is in the same boat was Thurman. Good fighter, but nothing they do jumps off the TV screen.

Spence is the first young, natural Welterweight to come on the scene since Cotto, Margarito and Williams. I mean Floyd went his entire career without fighting a big, young hungry Welterweight. And Pac only did it once. Hoping that Spence whoops Thurman's ass and starts bringing back real Welterweight fighting again.

 

Spence just whooped his ass. He outboxed him early. Then as the fight went on he went to win bigger and bigger each and every round. Until finally the stoppage. I grew tired of the ducking, waiting, delaying, small guys, old guys, etc. All the complete bull**** of the Welterweight division the past few years.

Now we finally got 2 top young fighters (actual real WW's and not blown up little guys) share the same ring. And Spence destroyed him. Forgive me if I'm a little excited about that.

 

Spence isn't the 2nd coming. I still don't even rate him elite yet. My elite fighters are

-Gonzalez
-Estrada
-Inoue
-Rigo
-Loma
-Garcia
-Crawford
-GGG
-Ward
-Kovalev

Notice how Spence isn't on my list yet. But he's been hyped as great talent with great ambition. And a fighter with that type of support did what he's supposed to do against a fighter of Kell Brook's caliber which is destroy him.

Thurman pumps himself up with "One time" in the 3rd person. LMAO this guy couldn't punch himself out of a wet paper bag in comparison to Tito Trinidad. And before you say "Well Jesus Christ, stop holding him to a ridiculous standard like that" Well I'm not the ******* referring to myself in 3rd person as "One Time" and then get walked down by Robert Guerrero.

 

Forgot that he's undefeated which means everything today. All you need is the 0 today.

 

That's the problem. When for example who saw Tito we saw the huge power in both the right and the left. Along with the height and reach.