“That dude did not stop me, bro. I wanted more smoke, bro. I’ll take more punches, homie,” Thurman said to MillCity Boxing. “Go watch the film, bro. Tell me which punch he landed in the last 20 seconds. He threw 25 punches, bro. He did not land one.”
Thurman maintained that Fundora’s activity was being mistaken for effective punching.
“Nothing got through. Nothing got through y’all,” Thurman said. “Y’all don’t even understand boxing. Boxing means you have to score a blow. You don’t just throw a blow, and that’s a blow. You have to land the blow.”
The former unified welterweight champion also pointed to the absence of a knockdown as evidence that the fight should have been allowed to continue.
“If you gonna get me, my whole life, no one took me out,” Thurman said. “So, you going to take me out? Let me be the one to say, ‘Yo, I’m done.’ Or at least let him drop me. We never got to a drop. You didn’t drop me one time. One time, but you stopped me.”
Thurman expanded the discussion beyond his own defeat, arguing that boxing officials should allow fighters more opportunities to continue during difficult moments.
“Knock me out, bro. Take me out, man. Do that,” Thurman said. “For the rest of the year, can we let fighters finish fights, people, please?”
Fundora was awarded the stoppage victory after the referee determined Thurman was no longer able to adequately defend himself. Thurman, however, continues to view the ending differently, insisting that the champion’s late flurry contained more blocked and missed punches than meaningful scoring shots.
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