Bounced back from a car crash, hopefully the fight isn't a trainwreck: Thurman/Porter June 25 thread

Who wins?

  • Thurman via UD/KO

    Votes: 38 74.5%
  • Porter via UD/KO

    Votes: 13 25.5%
  • Cuellar via UD/KO

    Votes: 4 7.8%
  • Mares via UD/KO

    Votes: 8 15.7%
  • Hurd via UD/KO

    Votes: 9 17.6%
  • Molina via UD/KO

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Benavidez via UD/KO

    Votes: 9 17.6%
  • Ntetu via UD/KO

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Total voters
    51
  • Poll closed .

krackdagawd

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But I gotta say he has a point about Thurman stepping back & shooting the straight right (probably followed by a left hook) & he could drop him. In the media workout that was what I saw Thurman throwing

Yeah that's how Brook did him but Porter's bodywork is what has me on the fence w this.
 

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only thing which makes me insecure in picking Thurman is that he reacts bad if he gets hit. He just retreats in a straight line and looks shook. Otherwise he is a more versatile and better boxer than Porter and punches stronger and more precisely. But I'm still not sure that mentally everything is okay with him. At some point he let Luis Collazo to bully him. :stopitslime: I wasn't mad a him because the Bundu fight cause he won 12-0 and he didn't look shook he just boxed smart against an extremely awkward opponent, after that he was great against Guerrero eve though he gassed out a little by the end of the fight but after that o the Collazo fight I didn't like that much what I saw. He should be way more dominant against the 2015 version of Collazo. I know that he KOd Ortiz but still... Thurman sometimes looked scared from the guy... :why: That got me wondering what will be against Porter then who has a more mobile, more agile and stronger offense than Collazo (or Guerrero, or Bundu).

I still pick One Time though, probably by KO/TKO.
I'm hyped for this btw, both of them among the most entertaining boxers right now imo
 

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only thing which makes me insecure in picking Thurman is that he reacts bad if he gets hit. He just retreats in a straight line and looks shook. Otherwise he is a more versatile and better boxer than Porter and punches stronger and more precisely. But I'm still not sure that mentally everything is okay with him. At some point he let Luis Collazo to bully him. :stopitslime: I wasn't mad a him because the Bundu fight cause he won 12-0 and he didn't look shook he just boxed smart against an extremely awkward opponent, after that he was great against Guerrero eve though he gassed out a little by the end of the fight but after that o the Collazo fight I didn't like that much what I saw. He should be way more dominant against the 2015 version of Collazo. I know that he KOd Ortiz but still... Thurman sometimes looked scared from the guy... :why: That got me wondering what will be against Porter then who has a more mobile, more agile and stronger offense than Collazo (or Guerrero, or Bundu).

I still pick One Time though, probably by KO/TKO.
I'm hyped for this btw, both of them among the most entertaining boxers right now imo

Outside of that body shot which to me would've dropped a lesser man; Collazo was dominated. Thurman staying on his feet & surviving showed me he has character & heart & those are intangibles you need to beat someone like Porter who has a strong will. Don't forget he made Collazo quit & not want it anymore. Collazo was beat up against Khan but Thurman took his heart & made him not wanna continue. He knew he would only continue to get busted up & hurt & thought about his future. Against Khan he probably thought he had a punchers chance & kept going.
 

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Outside of that body shot which to me would've dropped a lesser man; Collazo was dominated. Thurman staying on his feet & surviving showed me he has character & heart & those are intangibles you need to beat someone like Porter who has a strong will. Don't forget he made Collazo quit & not want it anymore. Collazo was beat up against Khan but Thurman took his heart & made him not wanna continue. He knew he would only continue to get busted up & hurt & thought about his future. Against Khan he probably thought he had a punchers chance & kept going.

This is true. Collazo even rocked Khan in their fight too, but his gameplan was garbage in that bout and he never pressured dude like he was supposed to.

Against Thurman he knew he was fukked and politely took his L despite landing such a good body shot.
Ditto for Diaz as well, who was also putting hands on Khan, but was :whoa: when those Thurminator bombs started coming for his grill.
 
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