Keith Thurman Returns Home

Posted by Ramon Aranda on 11.02.2009

Thurman hits the ring on Nov. 6.

Written by Anthony Ivey

Photo by Daniel Wilcox

2008 Olympic trials silver medalist and undefeated welterweight prospect Keith "One Time" Thurman will make his return home to the Bay area on Friday, November 6th, at the Hyatt at in Downtown Tampa, Florida. He is the headliner of a scheduled eight bout card promoted by One Punch Productions.

"It's wonderful to be back home", states Clearwater's Thurman. "I'm very grateful to One Punch Productions for this opportunity, and to fight again in front of friends and family means a lot to me." Thurman, 10-0 with 10KO's, will be fighting in a scheduled eight round affair against Edvan Dos Santos Barros. Barros recently took former world champion Luis Collazo the distance over 10 rounds. Thurman's last three fights were out of state, with the most recent one being televised on ESPN. "To me it just meant more people were watching. I still had to do my thing, and make it as entertaining as possible," explains Thurman.

Thurman, who is trained by Dan Birmingham, has yet to see past the third round as a pro and he doesn't see that statistic changing with this bout. "I don't see this fight going past three, but hey if it does, he's got my respect," states Thurman. "I've been sparring with "Winky" Wright, the Willis Brothers, and "Slick" Willie Lee, so I'm prepared for whatever." Also scheduled to appear that evening are undefeated middleweight prospects Quinton and Marcus Willis, as well as once defeated cruiserweight Nick Ianuzzi. Photo is courtesy of Cory Wilcox.

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Anthony Ivey is a former boxing writer at 411mania.com.