Keith Thurman returns after a three-year layoff to fight junior middleweight Brock Jarvis on March 12 at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia.
Fans believe Thurman’s reasoning for getting off the couch after another of his extended breaks is that he it smells like Saudi money and he wants to get in on the action while he still can.
Unreliable Thurman
The 36-year-old “One Time” Thurman is still relatively young in terms of boxing, but he is so unreliable because of his fragile body. Even if he does make it to the ring, when is the next time you’ll see him? 3 years? Unlike other fighters, Thurman doesn’t live life.
Thurman (30-1, 22 KOs) needs to win this fight against the 27-year-old Jarvis (22-1, 20 KOs) to have a chance to be snapped up by Turki Al-Sheikh to fight on one of the undercards of. Although Thurman looked good in his last fight, shedding 2 1/2 years to beat Mario Barrios in 2022, he may not have similar results this time around. He’s not 33 anymore.
“He (Thurman) hasn’t raced since 2022. I don’t know how serious he is. Keith has been a part-time boxer for the past six years (correction: eight). One race a year. No fight a year. I don’t know what he wants to achieve by coming back. I don’t know what he has left,” Ade Oladipo said DAZN Boxing for Keith Thurman returning after three years out of the ring to face Brock Jarvis on March 12 in Sydney, Australia.
“It’s a name, it’s a presence. He could contend with some up-and-comers. Keith is probably looking at division 147 and thinking, “That’s pretty thin. I can go there and, all of a sudden, make some money in Riyadh’s season and do some damage.
“I lost interest in the Keith Thurman thing a few years ago when he stopped fighting and I wanted him to fight. I was desperate to fight and he just didn’t want to fight. My interest in Keith Thurman has been lost for three or four years.’
Everyone lost interest in Thurman years ago when he stopped being a full-time boxer after his narrow 12-round victory over Danny Garcia on March 4, 2017. Thurman was hurt in that fight, suffering a groin injury. elbow. He sat out of the ring for a year and a half after that, licking his wounds and doing nothing.
Thurman’s last 3 fights
Mario Barrios: February 5, 2022
Manny Pacquiao: July 20, 2019
Josesito Lopez: January 26, 2019
Eyes on Saudi Arabia’s money?
“If you’re Keith Thurman and he hasn’t fought in a few years, he’s probably thinking, ‘You know what? Let’s do a camp and see how I feel. Let’s go.’ So if I’m Keith, I can see why he’s doing it, but I just don’t know if he’s there anymore,” Ade said.
“Again, when you haven’t competed in two years, is it still there? I don’t know. I hope it’s because he’s exciting. He talks a lot, but let’s see if there is. I don’t know if Brock Jarvis will prove he’s there, but we’ll see. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but let’s see,” Ade said.
Thurman is obviously hoping that Turki Al-Sheikh will take notice and want to pay him millions to compete on some of the Riyadh Season cards. At 36, Thurman is young compared to some of the fighters on Turki’s cards. He is younger than Deontay Wilder and Terence Crawford.
‘One Time’ Thurman is so unreliable, however, due to his injury problems, and it would be a waste of time for him to be used by Turki on his cards. If Keith can’t make it through training camp without injury, there’s no point in using him. I’d be very surprised if Thurman makes it to his fight against Brock Jarvis on March 12th without sustaining an injury that delays or cancels the fight.
2025-01-22 07:31:00
