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<\/a>“That Unibrow Keith Thurman is Getting Knocked Out in Two”!–Simba Judeson, Independence, KS (President of Shawn Porter Can Beat Any Fighter With A Uni-brow Fan Club – 18 members and growing)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nWelterweight star \u201cShowtime\u201d Shawn Porter opened up his training camp to media Thursday at Porter Hy-Performance Center in Las Vegas as he prepares for his primetime showdown with welterweight world champion Keith \u201cOne Time\u201d Thurman on Saturday, March 12 on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on CBS presented by Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) from Mohegan Sun Resort in Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Televised action begins at 8:30 p.m. ET\/5:30 p.m. PT with an all-action showdown between former multiple division world champions Abner Mares and Fernando Montiel. <\/p>\n
Porter worked out for media along with his father and trainer, Ken Porter as he looks to become a welterweight world champion for the second time. Porter defeated multiple-division champion Adrien Broner in a primetime PBC main event last year and is looking to again find success under the bright lights.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the live event, which is promoted by DiBella Entertainment, are priced at<\/p>\n
$300, $150, $75 and $35 (plus applicable fees) and are on sale now through<\/p>\n
Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call (800) 745<\/p>\n
3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets are also available at the Mohegan Sun<\/p>\n
Box Office.<\/p>\n
Here is what Porter and his father had to say Thursday:<\/p>\n
SHAWN PORTER<\/strong><\/p>\nOn training camp\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cTraining camp is going great. It\u2019s been hard work as always and nothing really different specifically for this fight. Obviously it is always a different game plan for a different fighter but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not making too many adjustments from my previous fight, just taking what I learn from each fight and take those learning experiences with you. Going into this fight we will definitely have some of our past experiences show up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is getting closer. I feel it every day. It\u2019s approaching and the excitement is brewing. The closer it gets the more excited and more focused that I get.<\/p>\n
On being perceived as the underdog\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI do not feel like I am coming in as the underdog. In order to be the champion, you have to beat the champion. That is my outlook on this fight, not only to outpoint him but to make it very decisive and dominate the fight.<\/p>\n
\u201dMy motivation is to prove the doubters wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have faced a tougher opposition than Keith Thurman. I feel like that may work most to my advantage. I think that there will come points in this fight where I will put him up against things that he has never been up against. It is all about how he reacts to what I throw at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy plan is to go in there and shake him up, make him uncomfortable and carry the fight just like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am ready and whatever Thurman has to bring. I\u2019m ready for 12 rounds, I\u2019m ready to knock him out. I\u2019m ready to do whatever it takes to win. I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n
On sparring with Thurman\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWe expect what we saw in sparring with him to show up in the fight. He moved around a lot when we sparred. There weren\u2019t very many clean shots landed by either of us, but I know from sparring with him that I have to be aggressive and that I have to cutoff the ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say that for the majority of this fight it is probably going to be me as the aggressor. He likes to bully guys at the beginning of the fight to wear them down to feel himself out.. We\u2019re expecting him to move a lot more against me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to be aggressive, we\u2019re going to be smart, we\u2019re looking beyond this fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my last fight I didn\u2019t get hit very much and I am taking that same mindset and defense into this fight.<\/p>\n
On being the next Floyd Mayweather Jr\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI am expecting to beat Keith and be the guy that everyone looks at.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you go up against someone at a high level like this, you go up and you show out.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, I think those faces are going away. The welterweight class is exciting and there\u2019s going to be a new face on the top of that ranking. I\u2019d like that face to be me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t make any predictions; I just know I am going to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been waiting for this fight since 2013. I had just gotten my title then and I could see the way his career was moving that there was a collision course. We didn\u2019t know how long this fight would take to happen or when it would happen, but we knew it was coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was told this fight was happening all I could think was \u2018Ok, let\u2019s do it\u2019 and it took some time to make the fight happen but when we finally did our faceoff, it felt great to look him in the eyes and let him know \u2018I\u2019m coming after you.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me to fight Keith it has always been something that was a part of my career, all business not personal. It was just something that I needed to do to get to where I want to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeith Thurman is a good fighter. Nothing really sticks out to me as something I should worry about. He\u2019s a good athlete and a good boxer, but he is very beatable, he just hasn\u2019t been beat yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re only as good as you\u2019re last competition. If you look at the Kell Brook fight, I was not as good as I should\u2019ve been. Since then I am very good, but still I feel that you are only as good as your last fight until you prove otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is and isn\u2019t personal. For Keith to be considered one of the top dogs in this weight class, it is personal to me to beat him and reign over him. Other than that, it is all business.\u201d<\/p>\n
KEN PORTER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nOn being his son\u2019s trainer\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I have the history of working with a lot of top-level amateurs who have moved on to the professional level, I think that Shawn sees that in me as an edge.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his history with Keith Thurman\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n“I know him very well. I\u2019ve had opportunities to work with him in the amateurs. I\u2019ve had opportunities to work with him in the pros. I\u2019ve worked in his corner in an amateur fight before, I\u2019ve worked in his corner in a pro fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeith knows Shawn, they\u2019ve sparred about 30 rounds. He knows speed and won\u2019t come in the ring trying to land a significant shot from the beginning. If he\u2019s throwing that punch, he\u2019s probably running the other direction at the same time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would challenge [Thurman] to come in the ring and fight, but I know he\u2019s going to fight. I know he will try to outbox us and try to land a slick and unexpected punch. Anyone can land a shot on you, that happens, but it\u2019s what you do after the punch that counts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to trading punches, boxing with him, slugging with him. We\u2019re looking for a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what it will take to win this fight\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n“At this point in time, there\u2019s going to be a lot of adjustments that have to be made, and I can\u2019t just determine what it\u2019s going to take to do it, but I know it\u2019s going to take everything \u2013 speed, quickness, power, aggressiveness, conditioning, making adjustments mentally – it\u2019s an intellectual fight.”
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