Diego Chaves will give Keith Thurman problems

thurman43By Allan Fox: Unbeaten Keith “One Time” Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) is going to have to be on the top of his game this Saturday night in his match-up against #1 WBA, Diego Chaves (22-0, 18 KO’s) in their Showtime televised fight at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Thurman has been saying for well over a year now that he’s ready to fight and beat the best at 147. He’s going to get a chance to prove that he’s for real against the hard hitting Chaves.

Chaves has excellent power, and he’s a lot like Saul “Canelo” Alvarez with his fighting style. He’s got knockout power in both hands, and a vicious right uppercut that he likes to throw.

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Berto-Soto Karass & Thurman-Chaves this Saturday, 7/27, on Showtime

berto44By Allan Fox: Former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (28-2, 22 KO’s) will have his career on the line this Saturday night against Jesus Soto Karass (27-8-3, 17 KO’s) in their fight at the AT&T Center, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Berto, 29, cannot afford to lose this fight, because he’s already lost 2 out of his last 3 bouts, and it’s at the critical stage where another loss will signal the end of Berto as far being a contender.

He’s got a new trainer in Virgil Hunter, so he can’t make any excuses about not being at his best. Hunter is one of the best trainer’s in all of boxing, and he’s not going to let Berto get into his bad habits of fighting off the ropes and trying to use the shoulder roll defense.

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Keith Thurman and Diego Chaves square off on July 27th on Showtime in San Antonio, Texas

thurman32 - CopyBy Dan Ambrose: Undefeated welterweight Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) will be getting a chance to show if he’s for real or not against Diego Chaves (22-0, 18 KO’s) on July 27th from the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The WBA interim World welterweight title will be on the line for the winner and Showtime will be televising the fight in the United States. This will be the 24-year-old Thurman’s big chance to show that he belongs among the top fighters at 147. He’s called out the likes of Paulie Malignaggi, Tim Bradley and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the past, to name a few, but he didn’t have the resume to show that he belonged with those guys in the ring.

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Keith Thurman in position to win interim WBA 147 lb. title against Chaves

thurman3By Allan Fox: #4 WBA, Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) is looking good right now to beat undefeated Diego Chaves (22-0, 18 KO’s) to claim the interim WBA welterweight title this month on July 27th at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Thurman, 24, has most of the advantages in this fight against the 27-year-old Chaves. Thurman is taller, stronger, faster, better defensively and a little more experienced against better opposition than Chaves.

The only thing we don’t know about Thurman is how he’ll handle his first real puncher of his career. Chaves hits harder than the guys that Thurman has been facing, and we’ve already seen that Thurman can be hit.

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Keith Thurman – Diego Chaves on July 27th in San Antonio, Texas

thurman74By Allan Fox: Next month, undefeated welterweights Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) and Diego Chaves (22-0, 18 KO’s) square off on July 27th at the At&T Center in San Antonio, Texas for the interim WBA welterweight title. The winner of the fight will be in the position to face the winner of Saturday’s fight between WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi and Adrien Broner.

For Thurman, this is a dream come true because he would like nothing better than to get a shot at knocking off Malignaggi, who he exchanged words with last March after Thurman’s shutout win over Jan Zaveck, or Broner.

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Keith Thurman vs. Diego Chaves for interim WBA 147 lb. title on July 27th in San Antonio, Texas

thurman43 - CopyBy Dan Ambrose: #4 WBA, Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) will be fighting #1 WBA, Diego Chaves (22-0, 18 KO’s) in a battle of unbeaten between fighters with near identical records on July 27th for the interim WBA welterweight title at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The winner of the Thurman-Chaves fight will lock themselves down as the mandatory challenger for WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi. We could see the World Boxing Association give the Thurman-Chaves winner the title at some point in the future if the winner of the Malignaggi vs. Adrien Broner fight next month on June 22nd fails to fight Thurman.

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Keith Thurman: Once I get Bradley in the ring it’s all over for him

thurman3By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten #1 WBO mandatory challenger Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) says he’s going to finish off WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (30-0, 12 KO’s) when the two of them meet in the future if Bradley doesn’t get beaten in his next fight by one of promoter Bob Arum’s Top Rank fighters Manny Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez, Brandon Rios or Mike Alvarado.

Thurman saw Bradley’s recent 12 round decision win over Ruslan Provodnikov and he feels that Bradley is quite fortunate that he was in the ring with the 5’7” Provodikov rather than himself because he thinks he would have destroyed Bradley had he hurt him the way that Provodnikov did.

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Thurman-Chaves & Berto-Soto Karass on July 20th or 27th on Showtime

thurman432By Allan Fox: According to Dan Rafael, Golden Boy Promotions is putting together a big fight card on July 20th or July 27th on Showtime with #10 WBC welterweight Jesus Soto-Karass (27-8-3, 17 KO’s) facing former IBFC/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (28-2, 22 KO’s) and #1 WBO, #4 WBA, #13 IBF, Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) battling Interim WBA World welterweight champion Diego Chaves (22-0, 18 KO’s) at a still to be determined venue.

This is a good card because we’ll find out a lot of things starting with whether Berto has anything left in the tank after having lost two out of his last three fights and looked poor in all three of them. Berto is coming off of a 12 round unanimous decision loss to Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero last November.

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Thurman and Berto back in action in July against separate opponents in doubleheader

thurman43By Allan Fox: Undefeated #1 WBO welterweight contender Keith Thurman (20-0, 18 KO’s) and former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (28-2, 22 KO’s) are expected back in the ring in July against separate opponents in a doubleheader on Showtime, according to RingTV.

Thurman, 24, needs to stay busy while he waits for his shot against WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley or whoever holds the bout by the time the WBO forces the issue. Bob Arum of Top Rank will have to make a decision at some point in the future whether he’d rather have the WBO champion defend his title against Thurman or vacate it altogether to avoid fighting the Golden Boy promoted Thurman.

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