After another major injury and layoff, Keith Thurman returns
Out of action for 3 years, 36-year-old former unified welterweight titlist is in Australia to find out what he has left against Brock Jarvis
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While nobody really knows what former unified welterweight titleholder Keith Thurman has left at age 36 and after so many injuries and layoffs, one thing he clearly has not lost is a gift of gab.
“I could be 46 years old, I still whoop his ass. I could be 56 years old, I still whoop his ass at the end of the day,” Thurman said this week about opponent Brock Jarvis. “I came here to get back into the beautiful sport of boxing that I've loved that I’ve dedicated my whole life to since I was seven years old.
“He moves like a cardboard box on wheels, a fucking Tetris board in action. He’s square as fuck. The boy’s got no head movement.”
Thurman returns from a three-year layoff — caused primarily by injuries — when he will move up to junior middleweight and fight Brock Jarvis in a 10-rounder that will headline a No Limit Boxing card on Wednesday at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia, Jarvis’ hometown.
In Australia, the card is on Main Event and Kayo Sports PPV. In the United States there is no live coverage but it will be available for replay on the PBC YouTube channel beginning at 9 a.m. ET.
Thurman is coming off a torn biceps and surgery that forced him out of a junior middleweight title challenge against then-WBO titlist Tim Tszyu less than two weeks before they were scheduled to fight last March 30 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Injuries have crushed Thurman’s career in recent years. After reaching his apex in 2017 with back-to-back decisions in big wins against Shawn Porter to retain the WBA title followed by beating then-WBC titleholder Danny Garcia to unify, all sorts of injuries that have kept Thurman mostly out of the ring.
