Keith Thuman has been all over taking about Manny!!

[ykdadamaja]

LOLOL... this boy don't want Manny. lololol....

Thurman gets pounded into submission over 10 rounds and has to quit. He just isn't there yet. After Manny dispatches with Algieri, he should grant Thuman his wish.

[Silkeyjoe]

Thurman is a strange one for me. I have been thinking hes going to be the next big thing but I rewatched his fight against Chaves and he really struggled in spells against a limited opponent, I do think putting him in with better competition will bring out the best of him but I think Manny at this stage is a step too far. Id have 3 fights before that in this order:

Brandon Rios
Guerrero or Porter
Alexander or Bradley.

3 wins against this competition would prepare him for a jump into the elite group. Also give Manny another year to slow down

[J_Undisputed]

well now that the possibility of the porter fight has been spoiled by brook. Its time to start building something. Apparently if Manny will fight Algieri.. it means he'll fight anyone. Thurmans claiming to be promotionally independent now. So shouting manny's name is probably his way of trying to get his foot in the door at top rank, knowing Arums MO is to make matches within his stable first to keep the money in house. If nothing else, the work is steady....

[Ron Swanson]

Pretty sure Manny has never fought a true welterweight on as much as a 3 fight win streak so....

[mikeeod]

Thurman is too green at this point. He needs fights vs Porters, Brooks, Khan type fighters to build his resume. Then fight some Bradley type fighters n then go to Gloyd or Manny. I wouldn't even feel good about putting him in with Zmarquez at this point. Kid has to build his experience base up more before going into deep water with guys used to competing at the elite world class level.

[Spicoli]

Thurman should take a long concentrated look at the lead up and event between Brook v Porter. Soak it in. In a way I believe Porter served as the sacrificial point man for both reading the headlines, rushing ahead and suffering swollen head syndrome. Walk...then run.

[ykdadamaja]

Thurman is too green at this point. He needs fights vs Porters, Brooks, Khan type fighters to build his resume. Then fight some Bradley type fighters n then go to Gloyd or Manny. I wouldn't even feel good about putting him in with Zmarquez at this point. Kid has to build his experience base up more before going into deep water with guys used to competing at the elite world class level.

Pac may just embarrass him... Marquez will break his spirit.

[Ron Swanson]

Thurman is too green at this point. He needs fights vs Porters, Brooks, Khan type fighters to build his resume. Then fight some Bradley type fighters n then go to Gloyd or Manny. I wouldn't even feel good about putting him in with Zmarquez at this point. Kid has to build his experience base up more before going into deep water with guys used to competing at the elite world class level.

Pac may just embarrass him... Marquez will break his spirit.

There you have it. No reason for them to fight big, strong, fast , young welterweights. We can just say they will beat those types and watch Manny and Marquez battle more mediocre junior welters and lightweights.

[mikeeod]

Not saying Manny n JMM shouldn't fight him, especially if he is the best available competition. Just saying that Thurman shouldn't pursue them at this point. As for fighting solid competition, hard to argue with the names on those guys' resumes as they have two if the best (resumes) around. You never know though, I thought Qawi and Hopkins would be too experienced while Evander and Jermain Taylor would be too inexperienced before their first fights n I was wrong (maybe not with Taylor!!!), so I'm good with the fights happening n think they should. Just think it goes really bad for Thurman when it does, UNLESS he steadily improves his level of competition.

[Ron Swanson]

There's a long history of green fighters beating experienced men that were even better than them. We revere the older fighters for what they have done meanwhile try to conceive reasons to deny the newer fighters an opportunity to achieve. There is almost no chance Thurman will be as good as Marquez or PAC but he is big, young, and strong. These factors give him a chance against these versions of Marquez/PAC. I'd even pick him with relative confidence against Marquez now and Marquez is easily my favorite of the three. Eventually with all youth is served.

[mikeeod]

I can see your point of view, but it just seems to me that, more often than not, a guy like Thurman jumping that high in class that fast usually falls well short and never fulfills his potential/promise as a fighter. I think of David Reid fighting Tito Trinidad and never being the same. Michael Grant getting blown out by Lennox n being finished as a fighter. Jorge Luis Gonzalez getting annihilated by Bowe. Kelly Pavilik and TVoris Cloud against Hopkins. Lacy being dominated by Calzaghe. The list goes on and on. You may be right and Thurman May be too big and too good for both guys. I hope you are right if they fight, because he seems like a good guy and is exciting which would be great for the future of the sport. I would hate to see him rushed and ruined at an early stage of his career though...

[Ron Swanson]

I can see your point of view, but it just seems to me that, more often than not, a guy like Thurman jumping that high in class that fast usually falls well short and never fulfills his potential/promise as a fighter. I think of David Reid fighting Tito Trinidad and never being the same. Michael Grant getting blown out by Lennox n being finished as a fighter. Jorge Luis Gonzalez getting annihilated by Bowe. Kelly Pavilik and TVoris Cloud against Hopkins. Lacy being dominated by Calzaghe. The list goes on and on. You may be right and Thurman May be too big and too good for both guys. I hope you are right if they fight, because he seems like a good guy and is exciting which would be great for the future of the sport. I would hate to see him rushed and ruined at an early stage of his career though...

I don't think he'd beat PAC. But I can say with confidence he's more of a threat than Algieri.
The guys you list don't have the same natural size advantage Thurman would have. David Reid wasn't ruined by Tito, he was rushed because his eye even after many surgeries was only getting worse and his stamina/eye cost him that fight. He was winning that fight for a while. Grant was never that good either, watch the Golota fight before Lennox, he needed a miracle to pull that out. Pavlik, Cloud and Lacy's careers went exactly how they should. This notion one loss destroys fighters is largely overblown. Why wasn't PAC ruined, or Marquez, or Berrera or about 150k other fighters that lost early in their careers? People think that guys are good and then when they lose and continue to lose they must have been ruined. Perhaps they were just never as good as thought. This theory is supported by the many fighters that become great after losing. Sure some guys are ruined in their first loss, but that doesn't mean everyone should be protected from that first loss. Some guys are ruined in wins. Getting hurt in fight sports is part of the deal. If he's a better opponent than the other options he should be considered.

[ykdadamaja]

There's a long history of green fighters beating experienced men that were even better than them. We revere the older fighters for what they have done meanwhile try to conceive reasons to deny the newer fighters an opportunity to achieve. There is almost no chance Thurman will be as good as Marquez or PAC but he is big, young, and strong. These factors give him a chance against these versions of Marquez/PAC. I'd even pick him with relative confidence against Marquez now and Marquez is easily my favorite of the three. Eventually with all youth is served.

But this isn't one of those cases. As said, Manny should grant Thurman his wish.

[Silkeyjoe]

Pretty sure Manny has never fought a true welterweight on as much as a 3 fight win streak so....

Bradley twice

[Master]

Thurman should do a Cotto and go independent. He can then fight the best fighters for the highest price of any promoter.