The best at 154lbs are about to be tested

Thurman, like Lubin, has been around for a long time, and as a world champion at the highest level. Unlike Lubin, however, he’s unproven at 154lbs, which makes this a great opportunity for him to enhance the legacy he built by being at the top of the welterweight division for as long as he was. For a period, until the emergence of Terence Crawford and Errol Spence at 147lbs, he was the best welterweight in the world, and he was also exciting. I’m interested to see whether, at 36, he slows down his previous fast pace and compensates by fighting with more subtlety.