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Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman and Brock Jarvis each weighed in efficiently at 153 3/4 lbs for his or her 10-round junior middleweight struggle on March twelfth on the Hordern Pavilion, in Sydney, Australia. Thuman (30-1, 22 KOs) regarded in glorious form for somebody coming off a three-year layoff. You possibly can inform he’s put within the work.
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Age & Inactivity
You possibly can’t rule out Thurman, 36, shedding this struggle due to his age and inactivity. When he was nonetheless energetic, he by no means beat any of the killers at welterweight. His finest wins got here towards Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia. When he stepped it up towards 40-year-old Manny Pacquiao, he misplaced.
The Thurman vs. Jarvis occasion will likely be proven on the PBC YouTube channel on Wednesday, March 12.
The youthful fighter, 27-year-old Jarvis (22-1, 20 KOs), regarded a little bit drained. One might inform that he’d pushed himself laborious to shed weight and get all the way down to the 154-lb restrict. Brock has bulked up during the last seven years. It’s laborious to imagine that Jarvis was preventing at bantamweight [118 lbs] in 2018.
Granted, he was 20 then, however that’s a substantial soar up in weight for somebody that has already reached that age. His energy is nice, however he’s tremendous quick, and that might be an issue for him. In Jarvis’ current struggle, his jab regarded weak and gradual. He appeared to be tentative about throwing his energy pictures, and that was towards a journeyman, Adrian Rodriguez (13-10-2).
“That’s the key for Keith, his delivery system. He’s always been a wide puncher, and with that technique, he brings his whole body into the rhythm and the technique of the punch,” mentioned Shawn Porter to the media about Keith Thurman’s punching kind forward of his struggle towards Brock Jarvis.
“I saw Keith knocking out guys when we were 15 and 16-years-old. The power that he has is real. I think we saw it kind of fade away at 147 lbs. I think he’s like me. He became more of a boxer and more of a point fighter. I wasn’t trying to be a point fighter. I was trying to be fast. I think at 154, we’ll see that power come back like it used to be,” mentioned Porter.
