Thru Dan Ambrose: Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman says he wants to go up to 154 to drawback WBA secondary junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara for the sake of changing into a two-division international champion.

The proficient Cuban Lara is a young 39, and he can have a substantial amount of skill for Thurman. It’s fair to say that if the 40-year-old Manny Pacquiao was once as soon as a substantial amount of for Thurman in 2019, the 5’9″ southpaw Lara might do just the equivalent or worse.

All the guidelines that Thurman used to defeat Mario Barrios ultimate February won’t be as regards to as environment friendly against Lara, who has noticed it all all over his years on the Cuban national staff.

If Thurman (30-1, 22 KOs) can dethrone the technically skilled Lara (29-3-3, 17 KOs), it will reinforce his possibilities of fighting undisputed 154-lb champion Jermell Charlo for his 4 belts.

Ideally, the 33-year-old Thurman would like to battle IBF/WBA/WBC welterweight champion Errol Spence or WBO champion Terence Crawford, alternatively those two are in negotiations for a battle later this twelve months.

Thurman, not surprisingly, is impatient and doesn’t want to wait spherical to try and get a shot against the Spence vs. Crawford winner. What within the match that they choose to battle anyone else?

‘One Time Thurman has overlooked out on numerous great fights all over the overall 5 years since 2017 on account of his inaction related to injuries and collaborating finally results of paintings.

“I discussed I was prepared to move up because of Lara mentioned my identify,” Thurman discussed to FightHub TV. “He mentioned Danny Garcia and Keith Thurman.

“It merely seems like he merely wants to battle a name. I’d be prepared to do that too,” Thurman persisted.

“If that’s the best contract I can get correct proper right here at the moment and be a three-time two-division international champion, .

“I don’t want to be at ’54; I am devoted to ’47. On the other hand when you say those words out loud, ‘three-time, two divisional international champion, Keith One Time Thurman.’ Ok, that sounds reasonably too nice. You send the bureaucracy over; I’ll maximum surely sign it.”

It’ll be bad for Thurman to combat Lara, alternatively it’ll pay off huge time if he beats him.

Thurman is ranked #1 WBC, #3 WBA, #3 WBO, and #6 IBF at 147 and in an excellent spot to get a global establish shot. Unfortunately, Keith might not get that establish shot against the Spence-Crawford winner, on account of this he will have to do something.