(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Cameron Gillon: Last night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Kell Brook defeated ‘Showtime’ Shawn Porter to win the IBF welterweight championship in a 12 round majority decision, one judge scored the bought a 114-114 draw whilst that was overruled by scores of 117-111 and 116-112 in Brook’s favor.
Before the bout, Keith Thurman was spotted at ringside and was given a interview in which he stated when he would be back fighting and who he would like to fight. Thurman said he plans on being back in the ring in October or November after resting his current shoulder injury, he has been having rehab on the shoulder the past three weeks, Thurman has been out the ring since April after knocking out Julio Diaz in the 4th round. Thurman is one of the bright prospects in the division and boasts a record of 23-0 with 21 knockouts, that is a very very high knockout percentage for a welterweight which makes many fighters have a longer think about fighting Thurman.
Thurman said he would like to fight the likes of Devon Alexander, Robert Guerrero, Amir Khan and the winner of Porter/Brook which was Brook. For Thurman’s sake it was probably best that Brook won as like Thurman said in the interview, Porters team haven’t shown any interest in fighting Keith and if Porter won it would be very doubtful that they would give Thurman a shot, Brook on the other hand went straight into his post fight interview, spotted Thurman and said he would like to fight him in the near future, I don’t see this fight happening just yet as Brook has a big domestic pay day with fellow brit Amir Khan which would no doubt sell out a outdoor stadium possibly Wembley, them two have a rivalry that goes all the way back to the amateur days.
Keith Thurman for me right now is to much of a big risk for a small gain for any of the world title holders at welterweight, Floyd Mayweather hasn’t shown any interest in fighting him even though Thurman is mandatory for his WBA title, Manny Pacquiao has never talked about fighting Thurman, and for Brook to fight Thurman in his first defense would be a big risk as Thurman is a much better and smarter fighter than Shawn Porter. For Shawn Porter he may opt to want to fight Keith Thurman now he has lost his title to try and get back in quickly with the top fighters but likelihood is after this result, Thurman will be ahead of Porter and Thurman won’t give Porter a look at for his next fight.
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