Keith Thurman: “I Saw Some Mitt Work From Pac Man, He Looks A Little Slower”

By: Hans Themistode

Keith Thurman continues to be licking his wounds from his final ring look. The previous unified welterweight champion hasn’t been seen within the ring since selecting up the primary lack of his profession two years in the past in opposition to Manny Pacquiao.

Whereas Thurman continues to bide his time on the sidelines, Pacquiao is at the moment within the midst of coaching camp as he prepares for his return to the ring. The previous eight-division world champion will face arguably the largest check of his profession when he takes on present unified 147-pound titlist, Errol Spence Jr. The 2 are slated to swap fists on August twenty first on the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Seemingly each few days, Pacquiao drops a brand new coaching video as he prepares to cope with his a lot youthful opponent. Whereas the Filipino native has acknowledged that he feels refreshed and rejuvenated, Thurman believes that by the seems of Pacquiao’s coaching movies, his age is beginning to present.

“I noticed some mitt work from Pac Man, he seems a bit of slower this camp,” mentioned Thurman throughout a self-recorded video. “I ain’t gonna lie, everyone knows he a bit of older, he seems a bit of slower.”

On the age of 42, Pacquiao has admitted that he isn’t capable of push himself in coaching camp every day like in his youthful years. Nonetheless, regardless of that, the long run first-ballot Corridor of Famer is assured in his means to take down Spence Jr.

As for the unified champion from Dallas Texas, he’s ostensibly within the prime of his profession. After surviving a horrific automobile wreck in October of 2019, he brushed apart a life-threatening crash and bought proper again to work. In December of 2020, Spence Jr. efficiently returned to the ring and dissected former two-division titlist, Danny Garcia over the course of 12 rounds.

Thurman, 32, sat from his ringside seat as he watched Spence Jr. do no matter he needed to Garcia, a person he additionally defeated by cut up resolution in 2017. Whereas Spence Jr.’s efficiency was practically flawless, Thurman has brazenly criticized Garcia for failing to let his fingers go and land one thing of consequence on the chops of Spence Jr.

Though he isn’t precisely a fan of the unified star, Thurman does anticipate him to select up the win subsequent month in Las Vegas. With that mentioned, Thurman is hoping that Pacquiao is ready to land certainly one of his usually concussive blows in some unspecified time in the future throughout the battle.

“I feel he bought what it takes however I hope he offers Errol one thing good. All of us wanna see that chin get touched.”