Keith Thurman

About

Keith Fitzgerald Thurman (born November 23, 1988) is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 2016 to 2019 (promoted to Super champion in 2017), and the WBC title from 2017 to 2018. As of July 2022, he is ranked as the world’s fifth best active welterweight by BoxRec.

Thurman was born in Clearwater, Florida, to an African-American father and a European-American mother of Polish and Hungarian descent.

Thurman’s first amateur fight was in 1997. He was trained by the late Benjamin Getty who worked with Sugar Ray Leonard. Getty took Thurman under his belt as a child and helped shape him into the fighter he is today. Thurman is now trained by Dan Birmingham. Thurman finished his amateur career with 101 victories (76 KO’s), he won 6 National Championships including the 2004 PAL National Championships cadet (16yo) division. In 2007 he lost twice to world champion Demetrius Andrade at the Olympic Trials and won the silver medal.

On November 9, 2007, an 18-year-old Thurman debuted as a light middleweight against Kensky Rodney at the A…