40 Facts About Keith Thurman

Keith Thurman is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 2015 to 2019, and the WBC title from 2017 to 2018.

Keith Thurman finished his amateur career with 101 victories, he won 6 National Championships including the 2006 PAL National Championships.

On November 9,2007, an 18-year-old Keith Thurman debuted as a light middleweight against Kensky Rodney at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa, Florida, in a scheduled 4 round fight.

Keith Thurman won via first-round KO after a body shot floored Rodney.

In November 2009, Keith Thurman was taken the 8 round distance by Brazilian Edvan Dos Santos Barros.

On July 23,2010, Keith Thurman beat the undefeated Stalinn Lopez, the fight was on TeleFutura.

On November 26,2012, Keith Thurman brutally knocked 36 year old Carlos Quintana out in the fourth round to win the WBO NABO super welterweight title.

On March 9,2013, Keith Thurman who had 19 wins in as many fights moved down to welterweight weight and fought on the undercard of Hopkins-Cloud at the Barclays Center in New York City.

Keith Thurman called Zaveck 'a true veteran and great boxing lesson' for him.

Keith Thurman won the Interim WBA title by knocking out Chaves in the tenth round of a very competitive fight.

Keith Thurman had been landing extremely strong body shots the entire fight and finally dropped Chaves with one of the same.

Keith Thurman was never in trouble but absorbed some strong body work as well from Chavez.

On October 12,2013, it was announced that Keith Thurman would make his first defense of the Interim title on the Broner vs Maidana WBA world title fight on December 14 against battle tested Jesus Soto Karass at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Keith Thurman was ahead on all the cards and turned another strong performance.

Keith Thurman boxed patiently, cautiously and smartly, pacing himself and respecting Soto Karass' hand power despite Soto Karass' lack of hand speed.

On March 25,2014, it was confirmed that Keith Thurman would fight veteran Mexican boxer and former IBF lightweight champion Julio Diaz at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, on April 26.

Keith Thurman was taken the distance for only the third time in professional career, dropping Bundu in the opening round and going on to win a clear decision.

Keith Thurman stated after the fight that he was happy to have gone the distance and blamed ring rust.

On January 28,2015, Keith Thurman was elevated to the full WBA welterweight championship.

On January 14,2015 Al Haymon announced that Keith Thurman would fight 31 year old former world champion Robert Guerrero on March 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Keith Thurman started the fight off aggressively and dominated early on.

Keith Thurman knocked Guerrero down in the ninth round before going on to win a unanimous decision in a rather one-sided bout.

Keith Thurman was excited to be in a world title fight in his home state, having last fought there in November 2008.

Keith Thurman landed 119 of 348 punches while Collazo connected on just 76 of 244.

Keith Thurman, following the advice of his doctors, was on the sidelines for approximately six weeks before resuming training.

Keith Thurman rocked Porter badly on multiple occasions in the fight, he was hurt himself by a body shot in the eighth round.

Keith Thurman landed 235 of 539 punches and Porter landed 236 of 662.

Unlike Garcia, Keith Thurman chose not to have any tune-up and would fight Garcia after a long 9 month rest.

Keith Thurman was ringside at Garcia vs Vargas and entered the ring after the bout was over.

Keith Thurman started off as the aggressor hitting and moving back to avoid Garcia's counter hooks.

Keith Thurman backed off the championship rounds believing he had a comfortable enough lead to win the fight.

Keith Thurman said he would get back into training after four months.

On October 14, Keith Thurman confirmed that he would return to the ring latest by March 2018.

Keith Thurman stated that he would not be taking the rematch with Porter nor would he be fighting IBF titleholder Errol Spence Jr.

In November 2018, it was announced that Keith Thurman would fight Josesito Lopez on January 26,2019, at Barclays Center, to defend his WBA welterweight title.

Keith Thurman got rocked in the seventh round, but ultimately he won the fight by majority decision.

Keith Thurman praised Pacquiao after the fight, calling him a legendary boxer, stating "nothing wrong with losing to a legend".

Keith Thurman would not return to the ring following the first defeat of his professional career for almost 31 months, declaring "Until my retirement every day is a day closer to my fight", when he fought former WBA super lightweight champion Mario Barrios on February 5,2022.

Similar to Keith Thurman, Barrios was coming off the first defeat of his professional career, when he had been stopped by Gervonta Davis in June 2021.

Keith Thurman was born in Clearwater, Florida, to an African-American father and a European-American mother of Polish and Hungarian descent.