{"id":3587,"date":"2023-01-01T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/errol-spence-fights-in-april-keith-thurman-expects-opponent\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:30:03","slug":"errol-spence-fights-in-april-keith-thurman-expects-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/errol-spence-fights-in-april-keith-thurman-expects-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Fights In April, Keith Thurman Expects Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Errol Spence Jr. announced last Friday that he will return from a one-year layoff to defend the unified welterweight belt in April, facing former WBA\/WBC 147-pound champion Keith &#8216;One Time&#8217; Thurman. is expected.  .<\/p>\n<p>Errol, 32, is adamant that he doesn&#8217;t want to throw a bone at the flute-playing Thurman because of his bitter feelings for Thurman, a Florida native who didn&#8217;t get to play him in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>At this point Spence needs to grow and take a mature approach. Because if he doesn&#8217;t forget the need to shut him out and go back to Thurman, his pride will hurt his career and cost him millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) probably doesn&#8217;t like defending his IBF, WBA, WBC titles against Thurman (30-1, 22 KOs), but he wants to get a decent player. If so, I have no choice but to play against him.  The number of pay-per-view purchases on Showtime.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the self-promoting Thurman does all the hard work of promotion, Spence&#8217;s next PPV fight will yield anemic numbers.Bud Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Spence won&#8217;t face the unproven and dangerous puncher Jaron &#8216;Boots&#8217; Ennis as April&#8217;s opponent, not only because Errol could lose, but because he doesn&#8217;t know if Boots will bring in either.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cp2T29zx9RM\" data-id=\"cp2T29zx9RM\" data-query=\"start=9&amp;feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cp2T29zx9RM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube videos\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Performance of the Year: Errol Spence Jr. | Best of PBC 2022\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cp2T29zx9RM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Despite having plenty of talent, Boots Ennis (29-0, 27 KOs) hasn&#8217;t been around long enough to be recognized by casual boxing fans.  \u2013 Buy Spence&#8217;s next fight in PPV, so Spence needs Keith his Thurman in April&#8217;s next fight if he wants his boosted PPV purchase to accompany his match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">April 20th<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Errol Spence (@ErrolSpenceJr) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErrolSpenceJr\/status\/1608830906516779011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">December 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thurman, 34, has been resting since his victory over Mario Barrios in Las Vegas last February.  It&#8217;s unclear why &#8220;One Time&#8221; Thurman hasn&#8217;t fought since, but it&#8217;s likely he was waiting, hoping to be given the title shot offered by Spence or Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Thurman was the No. 1 welterweight in the division in 2017, but a combination of injuries, lack of ambition and enjoying the fruits of his labor has sidelined him for most of the past five years. .<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, Thurman has fought only three times, defeating Josesito Lopez and Mario Barrios and surprisingly losing to Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJveGluZzI0Ny5jb20vYm94aW5nLW5ld3MvZXJyb2wtc3BlbmNlLWZpZ2h0cy1pbi1hcHJpbC1rZWl0aC10aHVybWFuLWV4cGVjdGVkLW9wcG9uZW50LzI1NjE5N9IBAA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Errol Spence Jr. announced last Friday that he will return from a one-year layoff to defend the unified welterweight belt in April, facing former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-mma-combat-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Showtime-Spence-v-Ugas-PPV-Dallas-Fight-Night-WESTCOTT-19-Boxing-Photos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}