Thurman vs. Porter: A Technical Summary

Good video

I see this fight being won on what type of work the judges favor aggression and work rate or clean punching and ring generalship. I see Porter outworking Thurman but Thurman landing the cleaner and telling blows. It will be a close fight and will depend on what the judges prefer.

 

Agreed that Porter beats both Thurman and Floyd.Then again with Floyd you never know, he might adopt the same tactics than Brook and pull it out

 

Very ugly fight. But Brook did what he had to do in order to deal with Porter's aggression. I think Brook is probably better than Thurman to be honest despite his weaker resume. I don't think Thurman is as strong as Brook despite being more athletic. He won't be able to tie up Porter as successfully as Brook was able to do. But I could be wrong we shall soon see.

 

I have 115-113 Thurman.

Both will have their moments. Both are solid fighters.

Niether have the potential of Mr.Spence.

 

Keith is such an odd fellow. Talking with crazed pride like he's figured out the complex conundrum that is Shawn 'Pitbull' Porter. I hope he wins cause it seems to me he's a fragile dude who's convinced himself of his greatness as a defense mechanism. If he loses he's gonna psychologically implode I'm telling you.

Aaaaanyway. What I'm curious to see is whether Thurman, who's obviously well aware Porter is a strong mother****er, will back himself to stand up to Showtime's brutish ways, or whether he's gonna be on his bike working with one twos. I don't believe he has the core strength to use Kell Brook's approach, nor really the footwork to keep Porter at length, so he's gonna have some tough times. The early rounds will be dangerous I think, because he knows Porter's gonna come out guns blazing. Will he be prepared to give up those rounds? Doubt it.
Exciting fight. My guess is One Time's gonna channel his manic focus and be at the top of his game, catch Porter coming in, mid rounds, hurt him badly and win the fight going away from there.
Good video, thanks for posting.

 

Nice to see you, Bogo.
I like Thurman but tbh I've only seen a couple of fights (Guerrero and Zaveck, Zaveck fight being the one to put me off Thurman). I've seen three fights of Porter, too (Paulie, Broner and Brook).

Thurman's defence - Basic high guard with no noteworthy variations, attempts to reset in a very standard way that leaves him rather open. His footwork I find is more on the basic side. Because of his belief in his power and strength, he doesn't structure defence enough through his feet.
He refuses to make use of the ring to structure his game, when he does make decent use of the ring it's because his defence is purely reactionary and means Porter is going to gain points on ring generalship and assert his own fight. I feel this is the difference between Thurman and Brook.
Although I am expecting Thurman to win more late rounds.

Porter's inside game is sloppy, he throws arm punches lacking intent with the main view to just tie up. Shame, his strength, size and stature provides him decent tools for this.

I do like Thurman though, he must be a lovechild of Virgil Hunter (as well as Keisha Cole it seems) given his strangeness, I want him to win. It's just not easy for me to decide because I just don't know how all of these variables will mesh together. Ah, what the heck, I'm picking Porter.

 

Holding does too.Brook should have been DQ, but the fight took place in the UK.

 

about right, but can thurman knock porter down? broner did it with basically the only decent punch he landed. and porter crowds his work so much. :verysad