“That guy didn’t stop me, bro. I wanted more smoke, bro. I’ll take more punches, homie,” Thurman told MillCity Boxing. “Go watch the film, bro. Tell me what punch he landed in the last 20 seconds. He threw 25 punches, bro. He didn’t land one.”
Thurman maintained that Fundora’s activity was being mistaken for effective punching.
“Nothing got through. Nothing got through you,” Thurman said. “You don’t even understand boxing. Boxing means you have to land a punch. You don’t just throw a punch, and it’s a punch. You have to land the punch.”
The former unified welterweight champion also pointed to the absence of a knockdown as evidence that the fight should have been allowed to go ahead.
“If you’re going to get me, my whole life, nobody took me out,” Thurman said. “So, are you going to take me out? Let me be the one that says, ‘Yo, I’m done.’ Or at least let him drop me. We never got to a drop. You didn’t let me down once. Once, but you stopped me.”
Broadening the discussion beyond his own defeat, Thurman argued that boxing officials should give fighters more opportunities to keep going during tough moments.
“Knock me out, bro. Knock me out, man. Do it,” Thurman said. “Can we allow fighters to finish fighting for the rest of the year, people, please?”
Fundora was awarded the victory after the referee determined that Thurman could no longer adequately defend himself. However, Thurman continues to view the ending differently, insisting that the champion’s late flurry featured more blocked and missed shots than meaningful shots.
