Keith Thurman returns after a 3 year layoff to fight Brock Jarvis

Keith Thurman will return 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 reason for getting off the couch after another of her extended layoffs is that he it smells like Saudi money i he wants to get in on the action while he still can.

Thurman unreliable

The 36-year-old “One Time” Thurman is still relatively young in boxing terms, but is very unreliable due to his frail 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 27-year-old Jarvis (22-1, 20 KOs) to have a chance to be tapped by Turki Al-Sheikh to fight on one of his cards . While Thurman looked good in his last fight, coming off a 2 1/2 year layoff to beat 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 a part-time boxer for the past six years (correction: eight). One fight a year. No fights on the year. I don’t know what he wants to achieve when he comes back. I don’t know what he has left,” Ade Oladipo said DAZN Boxing about Keith Thurman returning after three years away from the ring to face Brock Jarvis on March 12 in Sydney, Australia.

“It’s a name, it’s a presence. Could fight some up-and-comers. Keith probably looks at the 147 division and thinks, ‘That’s pretty thin. I can go in there and suddenly make money in Riyadh season and hurt.

“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 for him to fight and I just didn’t want to fight. My interest in Keith Thurman has been lost for three or four years”.

Everyone lost interest in Thurman many years ago when he stopped being a full-time boxer after his 12-round split decision victory over Danny Garcia on March 4, 2017. Thurman was injured in that fight, suffering an elbow injury. 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 López: January 26, 2019

Do you have your 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 go camping and see how I feel. let’s go So if I’m Keith, I can see why he’s doing it, but I don’t know if he’s there yet,” Ade said.

“Again, when you haven’t wrestled for a couple of years, is it still there? I don’t know I hope it’s because it’s exciting. He talks a lot, but let’s see if he’s there. 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 we’ll see,” said Ade.

Thurman is obviously hoping that Turki Al-Sheikh notices him and wants to pay him millions to fight on some of his cards from the Riyadh season. 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 Turki to use him in his cards. If Keith can’t make it through training camps without injury, there’s no point in using him. I would be very surprised if Thurman made it to his fight against Brock Jarvis on March 12th without suffering an injury that would cause the fight to be postponed or canceled.