Keith Thurman is ready to fight for another world title, this time at 154lbs.
Thurman has been a welterweight for his whole career but has now suggested he could move up to junior middleweight to take on Erislandy Lara for the Cuban’s WBA middleweight title.
However Thurman would understandably stay at 147lbs if it allowed him to face Errol Spence Jr. for the welterweight’s belts.
“I said I was willing to move up because Lara mentioned my name,” Thurman told FightHubTV. “He mentioned Danny Garcia, Keith Thurman. It just seems like he just wants to fight a name. At the end of the day, I said I’d be willing to do that too.
“If that’s the best contract I can get right here right now and be a three-time two-division world champion, you know—I don't want to be at ’54, I am devoted to ’47. But when you say those words out loud ‘three time, two divisional world champion, Keith One Time Thurman’—Okay, that’s sounding a little too nice. You send the paperwork over, I’ll probably sign it.”
Thurman would also be open to a rematch with Danny Garcia, who has recently made the move up to 154lbs when he beat Jose Benavidez Jr. last weekend.
He claimed: “Danny Garcia can never pass the Keith Thurman test! I beat that boy with bone spurs, you see, I wasn’t even at my best.
“Hey, I love big fights. I love great fights. I’m addicted to the game for a reason. This didn’t happen yesterday. I’ve been addicted [to big fights] a long time. You know? ... That fight with Manny Pacquiao, I would’ve fought to the death. The arena—it was like the coliseum. Ah, ah. It was like we were back 1,000 years ago.”