Keith Thurman On ‘Leaked’ Errol Spence Sparring Video: “It Should Have Been Private”

By: Sean Crose

“It popped in my feed,” Keith Thurman says of a video apparently making the rounds exhibiting Errol Spence sparing in preparation for his combat with Manny Pacquiao in late August. “It was too juicy to not click on it,” Thurman tells FightHype. There’s certainly a video on social media, grainy and considerably unfocused, exhibiting somebody who seems to be Spence sparring in head gear with an unknown sparring companion. The sparring companion makes use of efficient aggression and lands effectively on at the very least one event. “I wager they pulled it down,” says Thurman of the video. “They need to have pulled it down.”

“We’re speaking about Errol Spence and his sparring companion, Little Pac Jr,” says Thurman within the interview. “Little Pac Jr was leaping in placing fingers on him and that didn’t look good to the folks, particularly me, who’s rooting for Errol to take out the previous with the brand new.” Thurman, who has fought and misplaced to Pacquiao, has eyes on Spence himself. “I nonetheless suppose you and me is a superb combat sooner or later,” he says. Thurman additionally factors out that he’s not pleased with rumors of Pacquiao working for President of his Filipino homeland. “I can’t hate on him if he was to take the combat, take the win, and be out (of boxing),” says Thurman. “It’s what it’s. However due to that, it doesn’t sit proper for me, and I would like EJ to win the combat.”

Nonetheless, Thurman admits that the footage within the leaked video in query, is notable. “Seeing how he let his sparring companion bounce in on him,” says Thurman “get on the within, put three items collectively, that’s Pacquiao’s specialty. That’s precisely the place he excels at. That’s what he needs.”

But Thurman admits that he has his suspicions concerning Errol’s notable sparring efficiency. “The one factor concerning the ‘leaked’ sparring is we don’t know what that day was like for Errol,” Thurman says. “We don’t know if he did bag work earlier than that spherical, we don’t know if there was one other sparring companion earlier than that sparring companion….there’s a lot we don’t know for the ‘leaked’ info.” In different phrases, the video is notable, however not THAT notable.

“I nonetheless anticipate Errol Spence to return totally ready and able to commerce punches in opposition to the legendary Pacquiao,” Thurman says, “and I nonetheless suppose he (Spence) has the ability, the pop, and the flexibility from his historical past of his armature profession and that Olympic background that he ought to be capable of deal with himself in that ring. So we’ll see.” In the end, nonetheless, Thurman shouldn’t be completely satisfied that the video has been leaked.

“Whoever filmed that in that health club ought to by no means be allowed to stroll again into that health club,” he says. “That particular person must be totally kicked out of that health club.”