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Keith Thurman returns after a three-year hiatus to fight junior middleweight Brock Jarvis on March 12 at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia.
Fans believe Thurman’s reasoning for getting off the couch after another extended hiatus yes he it smells like Saudi money and he wants to get in on the action while he still can.
Unreliable Thurman
36-year-old ‘One Time’ Thurman is still relatively young in boxing terms, but is so unreliable because of his frail body. Even if he makes it to the ring, when will you see him next? 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 at being potentially picked up by Turki Al-Sheikh for a fight on one of his cards. Although Thurman looked good in his last fight, after taking a 2 1/2 year layoff to defeat Mario Barrios in 2022, he may not have similar results this time around. He is no longer 33 years old.
“He (Thurman) hasn’t fought since 2022. I don’t know how serious he is. Keith has been boxing part-time for the past six years (correction: eight). One fight a year. No fights a year. I don’t know what he wants to achieve by returning. I don’t know what he has left,” Ade Oladipo said DAZN boxing on Keith Thurman returning after three years out of the ring to face Brock Jarvis on March 12 in Sydney, Australia.
“He is a name, he is a presence. He could struggle with some up-and-coming players. Keith probably looked at section 147 and thought, ‘It’s pretty thin. I can go in there and, all of a sudden, make some money on Riyadh Season and do some damage.
“I kind of lost interest in the Keith Thurman thing a few years ago when he stopped fighting, and I wanted him to fight. I desperately wanted him to fight and he just didn’t want to fight. My interest in Keith Thurman was 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 split decision victory over Danny Garcia on March 4, 2017. Thurman was injured in that fight, suffering an elbow injury. For a year and a half after that, he sat outside the ring, 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 money?
“If you’re Keith Thurman and he hasn’t fought in a few years, he’s probably thinking, ‘You know what? Let’s just set up 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 there’s more to it,” Ade said.
“Again, when you haven’t fought in a few years, is that still there? I don’t know. I hope it’s because it’s exciting. A lot of stories, but let’s see if there is any. I don’t know if Brock Jarvis will prove it exists, but we’ll see. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but let’s see,” said Ade.
Thurman is clearly hoping that Turki Al-Sheikh will notice him and want to pay him millions to fight on one of his 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 though due to injury issues and it would be a waste of time for Turki to use him in his cards. If Keith can’t make it through training camps without injury, it’s pointless to use him. I would be very surprised if Thurman makes it to his fight against Brock Jarvis on March 12th without suffering an injury that delays or cancels the fight.
