Tszyu will retire with Thurman
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Former Undisputed 4 belt Prediction champion. Still P4P and People’s Champion.
Hattori retires Tszyu and Tszyu Jr retires Thurman
Hate being so negative this early into a weekend, but dang boxing you just make it so easy . This is bad in so many ways. Pbc just picking up right where it left off with half ass PPV tags put on "big" fights no one asked for or needed. Keith Thurman 1) is a welterweight. 2) has exactly 1 win/fight in four and a half years. A win vs a guy coming UP in weight himself. 3) is in no one's top rankings, or lower rankings. Not the alphabet boys nor Ring, no one. No Thurman. 4) this just puts a glaring light on the fact that pbc has failed miserably at building, forming bigger stars over its first run. A next generation. This is just recycling in the cheapest way of an old dusty "name"...and that's a stretch fans need to stop falling for...and right back literally where they first started yeeears ago. This is not building to big fights naturally, it's simply short-sighted manufacturing.
More importantly, it's a crass cheap non effort to finally afford Tszyu the warranted top legitimacy at 154 after Charlo took his newfound respect, full 154 undisputed recognition and bubbling stardom and punted it all away for a "dare to be paid" predictable gimmick vs Canelo. The fact that THIS was their path forward for Tszyu in the aftermath is just making Tszyu stand in line all over again, play the follow up to Keiths the company mans tired dusty antics and speaking in 3rd person about himself. No legit title defense on the line for Tszyu and when it's all over and Keith is steamrolled in predictable fashion...people will point and say, well it was a used up inactive 147 Thurman after all, Tim still hasn't faced anyone .
amazon won't be in the boxing business long if this rubbish continues. to be fair to timmy he was negotiating with erikson lubin, who withdrew, for the march date. timmy wasn't getting a big name for march after that fight fell through. a big name would need more time to set up & timmy wants to remain active. it seems no one at pbc has any idea what they are doing though. i mentioned in another thread when the amazon deal was announced that they should put timmy on their first card on march first, as the nrl has league in town that weekend & timmy would have a lot of support. they gain nothing from the end of march. it is noteworthy that timmy is on their first card though. i think timmy has a ppv deal in oz, so pbc won't be making much from ppv over here
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