Keith Thurman: Floyd Mayweather is distracting everybody with Errol Spence talk

By Boxing News - 07/09/2015 - Comments

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By Danny Esch Keith “One Time” Thurman has gone on record now to let the boxing world know that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is throwing Errol Spence’s name out there to distract the boxing public from talking about Mayweather vs. Thurman. The comments that were made by Keith Thurman came via “Sidestep Boxing” during the Thurman vs. Collazo media day.

Reporter: “Keith why would you think that the money team and someone like Mayweather is trying to put Errol Spence in front of him (Mayweather) to try to get you as his opponent (Spence) or take you as an opponent do you think he (Mayweather) is avoiding you”?

Thurman: You can call it a distraction you know he (Mayweather) is throwing in a distraction so that they (Boxing Fans) will stop talking about me and Him (Mayweather) and now they will start talking about me and Errol.
Keith went on to say that a few years back Collazo and Errol Spence have been speaking his name and now Collazo has the opportunity to back up his words that he spoke before.

Keith Thurman: “Young little Errol Spence is trying to speak now well I aint going nowhere we (Team Thurman) aint scared of no little boy you know what I’m saying so he can get it too. ANYBODY who talks and Amir Khan too is trying to talk now and I can’t wait to slap him up you know what I’m saying.”

Thurman reiterated his thoughts on Errol Spence by saying
Keith Thurman: “I look forward to fighting young Errol one day that’s a great fight for the American public but Errol Spence hasn’t even fought a “B “ class fighter man his past three fights have been against opponents with one week notices and replacement opponents for yada yada reasons I don’t duck nobody”.

In my opinion Keith Thurman makes a good point because Errol Spence has been a part of the Mayweather camp for a while now and nothing was ever preached about Spence fighting Thurman. Errol Spence is the guy who reportedly gave Floyd Mayweather serious problems in one of his recent camps to the point that Floyd Mayweather reportedly became angry and embarrassed, and threw Errol Spence out of his gym. Errol Spence is a very talented fighter but he is new and so green with a grand total of 17 fights in his pro career none of which are against contenders or former champions. The last opponent that recently faced Spence fought Spence off of a three day notice and yet the Floyd camp is praising him and requesting a title shot against Keith Thurman who was Floyd Mayweather’s mandatory just like Robert Guerrero a short time ago. As far as respected reporters and analyst such as Al Beristain, Harold Letterman of HBO and Teddy Atlas plus Dan Rafael all say that Floyd Mayweather should fight Keith “One Time Thurman next.

Keith Thurman Rankings:

ESPN – # 4
WBA – CHAMPION
Ring # 5
Box Rec # 4



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