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Thurman doubts Danny Garcia will succeed against real welterweights

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Eric Baldwin: WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman has doubts whether WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia (32-0, 18 KOs) will be able to hang with the big boys at welterweight now that he’s moved up all the way to the division and is no longer fighting at catch-weights.

Thurman takes issue with Garcia seeing himself as the No.1 fighter at 147 now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have both retired from the sport. Thurman notes that Garcia has had two fights since he moved up to the full weight for the welterweight division, and those fights were against Paulie Malignaggi and Robert Guerrero.

Thurman says those guys aren’t real welterweights, as they started their careers below 147. Garcia beat Guerrero last January by a 12 round decision, but it was a fairly close fight. It was closer than the 116-112 x 3 scores that the judges handed down.

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Thurman denies running from Porter in sparring

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (26-0, 22 KOs) has less than a month before he faces Shawn Porter (26-1-1, 16 KOs) on June 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The two fighters sparred together three years ago, and Thurman supposed spent much of the time running from Porter to keep from getting hit.

Thurman, 27, has a different perception of what took place during the sparring sessions, which he says took place over a three to four week period. Thurman says he wasn’t running from Porter, he was “dodging” him and making him hit air. It’s understandable why some people might interpret dodging as a form of running because what it means is that Thurman wasn’t staying in the pocket against Porter. He was moving to keep from getting hit.

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Thurman says Mayweather avoided him

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By Chris Williams: WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (26-0, 22 KOs) thinks Floyd Mayweather Jr. avoided a fight with him when he was still fighting. Thurman appears to be still unhappy about it, and he doesn’t even want to discuss the topic of Mayweather because he doesn’t like the way things were done.

Thurman says the World Boxing Association elevated Mayweather to WBA Super champion at a time when Thurman was his #1 WBA challenger. The WBA then moved Thurman from contender to WBA regular champion, which meant he had to fight mandatory challengers and Mayweather didn’t, says Thurman.

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Shawn Porter sees greatness ahead

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By Dan Ambrose: In a month from now former IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (26-1-1, 16 KOs) will be challenging WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (26-0, 22 KOs) for his title on June 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

There are many boxing fans who are leaning in the direction of the 27-year-old Thurman to defeat Porter in this clash. However, it’s a fight that is really a toss-up when you look at the two fighters’ previous fights.

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WBA orders Thurman-Porter winner to face Mosley- Avanesyan winner

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mosleyBy Jeff Aranow: The World Boxing Association has ordered the winner of the June 25 fight between WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (26-0, 22 KOs) and “Showtime” Shawn Porter (26-1-1, 16 KOs) to face the winner of the May 28 fight between interim WBA welterweight champion David Avanesyan (21-1-1, 11 KOs) and #3 WBA Shane Mosley (49-9-1, 41 KOs).

If the winner of the Thurman vs. Porter fight had hopes of getting a bigger name for their next fight, they’re going to be pretty much handcuffed by having to fight the winner of the Mosley vs. Avanesyan fight due to the WBA ordering that.

Mosley used to be a big name at one time, but he’s now nearing 45, he clearly isn’t a huge name in the 147lb division among the younger fans of the sport.

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Keith Thurman confronts Porter about alleged sparring session

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thurmanj9By Danny Esch: The mega fight between Keith “One Time” Thurman and Shawn “Showtime” Porter will soon make landfall on June 25th at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn New York. For those that don’t understand the magnitude of this fight let me emphasize my point to you that this truly is a “Mega” type of fight.

I emphasize this point because you will have the luxury of watching two young guys who are both in their prime years in this sport. This fight is truly a 50/50 type of fight because both fighters posses knock out power in both hands and arguably unblemished records except for Porters fight against Kell Brook that some say Shawn Porter actually one.

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Thurman: Mayweather told Canelo to stay away from Golovkin

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Image: Thurman: Mayweather told Canelo to stay away from GolovkinBy Dan Ambrose: WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman says that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has advised the 25-year-old WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) to stay away from fighting unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs).

Canelo is behind the eight ball right now, given that he’s the WBC 160lb champion and the World Boxing Council has mandated that he fight Golovkin after Canelo’s next fight against Amir Khan on May 7 next month.

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Thurman: I’m going to show I’m the top dog at 147

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thurman9(Photo credit: Amanda Westcott/SHOWTIME)By Chris Williams: WBA welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (26-0, 22 KOs) is calling his June 25 fight against former IBF 147lb champion “Showtime” Shawn Porter (26-1-1, 16 KOs) as the best match-up of 2016. We’ll find that out for ourselves if this is going to be a good fight or not because Thurman hasn’t fought since last year in July, and he hasn’t fought anyone good as of yet during his career.

For all we know, this fight could turn out to be a mismatch or a boring affair if Thurman decides to back pedal all over the ring to avoid getting hit by Porter. Thurman, 27, was involved in a traffic accident recently.

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Errol Spence: The only notable win for Keith Thurman is Guerrero

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Image: Errol Spence: The only notable win for Keith Thurman is GuerreroBy Dan Ambrose: Undefeated Errol Spence Jr. (20-0, 17 KOs) was asked about WBA welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman at Spence’s press conference last Saturday night following his 5th round knockout win over Chris Algieri (21-3, 8 KOs) at the Barclays Center Brooklyn, New York.

It was pointed out by a member of the media that Thurman had dismissed any notion of a fight against Spence last year due to Thurman’s belief that Spence didn’t have the experience to be fighting him. Spence finally got a chance to fire back at Thurman last Saturday when he pointed out that the only name on Thurman’s entire resume is Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, who clearly is on the downside of his career with three defeats in his last five fights.

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Spence: I’m up there with Pacquiao, Thurman, Khan and Porter

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1-Spence v Algieri_Fight_Ryan Greene _ Premier Boxing Champions1By Scott Gilfoid: Errol Spence Jr. (20-0, 17 KOs) really showed off his stuff last night in beating a fighter that no one had ever beaten in that fashion before in his 5th round stoppage win over Chris Algieri (21-3, 8 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Spence feels that his win over Algieri showed that he’s right up there at the same level as Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan, Danny Garcia, Shawn Porter and Keith Thurman. Spence believes he’s in the top five of the best welterweights in the division right now after the punching display he put on last Saturday night. I think Spence is underselling himself. I think he’s better than all those guys by far.

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