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i thought they were going to talk about the welters now that still lingering around from the previous boxing generation (pac, paulie, berto, etc etc)...the stuff ive been talking about with regards to getting rid of the old guard of the division...but this article was just baseless


shyt like this is the reason why boxing can never move forward. I compare it to baseball in that regard. So stuck on Mickey Mantle that they can appreciate how good Andrew McCutchen is.
 

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to be real, even if danny cut off the ring it wouldn't have mattered. his biggest issue was that he was gun shy. once he felt thurman's power, he flat out refused to pull the trigger. even if thurman stopped dead in his tracks and pitted himself in the corner, danny still would've been hesitant to let off. after the 2nd round, he was just too concerned with getting countered. the best way to beat thurman is with activity and punch output. the same as floyd. you have to throw combo's and force him to open up and danny just wouldn't do it. thurman was beatable last night. danny just never put any pressure on him.

I agree. I can't believe I'm gna say this but he would benefit from training w Wario :snoop:
 

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Brook Aims To Face Thurman Before Leaving Welterweight Division

By Edward Chaykovsky

IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) is not looking to leave the 147 ranks any time soon.

Brook already has a mandatory defense on schedule against Errol Spence (21-0, 18 KOs), which is being targeted for Sheffield United's Bramall Lane on May 27.

Most had expected the fight with Spence to be Brook's last at 147-pounds, but the Sheffield fighter is looking to stick around just a little bit longer.

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Brook wants to unify the welterweight division by facing newly unified WBC/WBA world champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs).

Thurman unified the titles this past Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, with a close twelve round split decision over previously unbeaten Danny Garcia's (33-1, 19 KOs).

Brook had picked Thurman to win and had no surprise over the outcome. He hopes the two of them can fight before the year's end.

"Garcia and Thurman are both very good champions and it was very hard to split them but I thought Thurman would win the fight because Garcia had not faced a true welterweight before," Brook told ESPN from his training camp in Fuerteventura.

"Thurman is a big welterweight who has competed at that weight his whole career. I would definitely like to fight Thurman because I want to unify the division before I move up. I think that would be a very explosive fight, me and Keith Thurman.

"I spoke to him backstage before I fought Shawn Porter [in 2014] and he said 'You're the boy from England, I'm looking forward to seeing you fight.' And I said the same to him because he stands out from all the rest of the welterweights for me."

Ironically, Brook's domestic rival - Amir Khan - is mandatory challenger to Thurman's WBC world title. But Khan may very well lose that position, if the Bolton man moves forward with a potential fight against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao.

i approve of this...in a right world...floyd should have gave up the 154 belts since he wasnt defending them, kept the wba/wbc/wbo belts he had at welterweight and unified with brook in his last fight
 
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