Thurman-Porter deserves a sequel!

Make it a smaller ring this time

 

Porter can pull it off next time if he improves his conditioning enough to bring pressure for 12 full rounds. He had to lay off and boxed (unsuccessfully) off the back foot too long in the latter half of the fight, which allowed Keith to edge it 7-5 on my card. Too many backward steps for him, but he was undeniably effective when he kept the heat on and roughed up Keith on the inside.

I'd love to see a rematch!

 

Eventually... but to be honest Porter should have to work for it again. Keith best him clearly & it's a step backwards for him right now.

 

Yes please. That was a great fight between two prime fighters trying to win, and trying to take the other guy out. I felt any round could be the last, but they ****ing did it. Went hard all 12,i was down on Thurmans heart in his last few fights, and thought he didn't have *****. He proved me wrong and went it got tough, he fought fire with fire. Def needs an immediate rematch, the other guys can wait. And put it right back on national TV.

 

People calling for immediate rematches must have watched the match while squinting. Thurman put some dry, hard leather on Porter, and Porter was just mauling Thurman. If you like these fighters, let them go separate ways for a bit.

I really don't know what people's affinity for these types of trilogies is all about. These guys will absolutely ruin one another. That is how good prospects/contenders get wasted. They get tons of mileage in these brutal rematches/trilogies, then people just write them off.

I am totally fine with each of these guys going to separate fights and meeting down the line again, if it comes to that. But simply tossing them in with each other again is bound to shorten one, or both of their careers.

Porter looked great. He was so fun to watch. It's almost like his style is finally really coming together. He looked explosive while being calculated. That being said, if he keeps taking the kind of leather Thurman and Broner put on him, it won't be good. That counter hook from the orthodox stance is really hard for him to deal with, and he absorbs them more frequently than he ought to. He was better against Thurman, but that is absolutely a problem area for him.

Thurman will fight more intelligently next time, this is an uphill battle for Porter. Every subsequent match against Thurman will have a lower probability of success and becomes exponentially more dangerous.

Look at it this way, Thurman COULD have just boxed, counter-punched, and clinched. He would have had arguably more success than Broner. Thurman is a smart guy, in a rematch he'd use the data he collected in the their first fight to generate more opportunities, minimize risk, and box to either an easy victory, or find the angles/ranges to generate maximum leverage on his counter-shots.

Porter's team needs to step away from this one for a bit.