Keith Thurman Can’t Talk Away The Fundora Loss

Boxing News 24 argues that Keith Thurman's attempts to downplay Sebastian Fundora's punching power make his stoppage loss harder to justify. Thurman claimed to Brian Custer that Fundora's punches were merely medium and emphasized that he was never knocked down. However, the outlet notes that downplaying Fundora's power does not explain why Thurman failed to produce enough offense to prevent the referee from intervening.

Thurman acknowledged that Fundora's height, reach, and punch volume posed unexpected problems that left him unable to get his offense going. While Thurman maintained that the referee stopped the contest prematurely and argued his corner should have decided his fate, Boxing News 24 contends that absorbing punishment without answering back justified the stoppage ahead of his upcoming bout with Vergil Ortiz Jr.