Keith Thurman (31-1, 23 KO) achieved his successful return to the ring with the technical knockout of the Jarvis Brock in the third round (22-2, 20 KO) on Wednesday night at Pavilion Hordern, Sydney.
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At the first demolition, “once” Thurman landed his right hand in the head of Jarvis, who sent him hard. The Count beat when he returned, but he looked in poor condition when the action was restarted.
Keith then went into the murder, unloading Jarvis and knocked him with his left hook in the head. Judge Soulos immediately stopped the fight because Brock would not get up from this fall.
In the first round, Thurman threw almost nothing, moving around the ring, trying to stay out of the range of younger, more powerful 27-year-old Jarvis. In the middle of the circle, Jarvis rushed Thuman, carrying him with repeatedly strong body footage that apparently bothered the older former champion in weight.
Jarvis filled on the left hook that barely missed Thuman’s head in the final seconds of the circle. It was a shot that would hurt to connect.
Thurman landed two hard shooting of the body into another round, which attracted Jarvis’ attention, it seems to hurt him a little. Aussie looked opposite after hitting those blows and was not as aggressive as he was in the previous round.
Still, Keith did not separate much from the hard shots with which Brock hit him. You could see a big difference in youth between the two of them in this circle. Thurman resembled a much older person.
In the third round, Thurman swallowed Jarvis around the ring, throwing strong but very slow right hands and left hooks. ‘Once,’ and then captured Jarvis against the rope and landed the perfectly placed right hand to put it strongly on the canvas. Surprisingly, Brock returned from the fall, but he looked in no condition to still fight. Thurman followed him and finished his job with the left hook that threw him out on the canvas.
Speed lost
The fight was the first Thurman in more than three years from February 5, 2022, and he looked much slower than he had in his last competition against Mario Barrios that year. Thurman has a lot from his game in terms of speed and mobility since then, which will not return.
With this victory over Jarvis, Thurman is expected to face former Junior champion WBO, Tim Tszyu in Australia. Tszyu lost the last two fights and comes from a vicious loss of third round against IBF champion Bakhhram Murtazaliev.
You would have to favor Tszyua over Thorman in that fight because of what the old Keith looked like tonight. The lack of speed and rate of work would put Thurman on the mercy of almost any top 15 medium weight juniors. He lost too much of his game to beat any top 154 pounds. Based on his performance tonight, I cannot remember any notable candidate for Thurman to win.
Last time updated 03/12/2025
