Keith Thurman Vs Brock Jarvis Face Off Getting Up Close And Personal

Former Welterweight Keith Thurman is set to fight Australia’s Brock Jarvis for their 10 rounds WBA international super welterweight title, on Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, at the legendary Hordern Pavilion, Sydney.

The fight nearly happened five days prior, when the two came face to face at the Tony Mundine Gym, on Thursday during open workouts. The fighters had to be separated after a wild confrontation and a fiery exchange of words even as the American came too close and stood over Jarvis whose team had to intervene by whisking him away. “Three days, four days, how about three mothers right now,” said Thurman as he punched the air right next to Jarvis’s face. “Now you are being pathetic,” responded Jarvis.

Thurman vs Jarvis stats

American Keith Thurman steps into the ring with a record of (30 - 1, 0) 22 of those wins coming by way of knockout. Keith won the interim WBA welterweight title in 2013 and was promoted to regular champion in 2015. He has not been active in the past three years; his last fight was a 2022 win against Mario Barrios.

Brock Jarvis from New South Wales Australia, will make his way to the ring with a record of 22 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, with 20 of those wins by knockout.

Thurman vs Jarvis form

The 36-year-old American is older and more experienced having started boxing 8 years and 1 month earlier than Jarvis. He has fought 108 more professional rounds, totaling 172 compared to Jarvis' 64. Keith is older by 9 years, but Jarvis has the height advantage of 2 inches above him. Despite this, both fighters have equal reach.

Keith Thurman has beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents. In 2016, he won against Shawn Porter by a unanimous decision, after that, he beat Danny Garcia by a split decision in 2017. He went ahead to beat Manny Pacquiao in 2019 by a split decision, in their WBA Super World Welterweight championship. in his last fight which took place in Las Vegas, he defeated Mario Barris by unanimous decision in their WBA Super World Welterweight championship fight.

Jarvis has won 4 of his last 5 fights, stopping 3 of them and going the distance once. on March 1, 2019, He defeated Philip Luis Cuerdo by knockout in the 1st round. He went on to win against Ernesto Saulong in 2019, by unanimous decision in their 10-round contest at Bendigo Stadium, Victoria.

The Australian defeated Mark Schleibs on December 11, 2020, by knockout in the 5th round at Coorong Pavilion, and on April 23, 2021, he stopped Nort Beauchamp in the 6th round at the same venue. The 27-year-old Jarvis has also won local gold in Australia, before being stopped for the first time in his career, by former world champion Liam Paro on October 15, 2022.

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In the past few years, Brock Jarvis has been fighting more than Keith Thurman who is making a comeback after nearly three years' break. Thurman has had just one fight since he lost the WBA welterweight championship in May 2019, in that time, Jarvis fought seven times.

The undercard is set to feature:

Michael Zerafa (32-5, 20 KOs) vs. Besir Ay (19-1, 9 KOs), WBA,

Mateo Tapia (17-0-1, 10 KOs) vs. Sergey Vorobiev (20-2, 14 KOs),

Tonga Tongotongo (9-0, 9 KOs) vs. Ralph Etienne (2-2-2, 2 KOs),

Sonny Knight (4-0, 3 KOs) vs. Alessandro Grippa (2-0, 1 KO).

The weight limit will be 154 pounds (11 stone or 69.8 kg). The weighing in will be done the day before the event.

The fighters are expected to ring walk at around 11:00 AM UTC which is 7:00 AM EST or 4:00 AM PST on the West Coast of America.