By Carlos Boogs
Welterweight contender Errol Spence (20-0, 17KOs) made a lot of noise last weekend, when he blew away former WBO junior welterweight champion Chris Algieri in five rounds at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Algieri has fought some of the best fighters in the last two years - including going the full distance with Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan and Ruslan Provodnikov.
Spence is one fight away from being the mandatory challenger to IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook. Spence must face Konstantin Ponomarev in an IBF final eliminator.
Promoter Lou DiBella, who staged the Spence-Algieri event, gives former champion Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs) absolutely no chance to defeat Spence if the two boxers were to meet.
Khan had some trouble in his twelve round unanimous decision win over Algieri. The contest was much closer than many had anticipated. That was Khan's last ring appearance last May.
Khan, who fights at welterweight, is moving up to a catch-weight of 155-pounds on May 7th to challenge Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez for the WBC middleweight championship on HBO Pay-Per-View.
"I have not seen bodypunching like that since Sugar Ray Leonard. That is some of the best bodyshots that I've seen boxing, at that weight class," DiBella said.
"Manny Pacquiao in Macau knocked Algieri down six times and couldn't get him out. There is a guy who's fighting Canelo Alvarez who barely beat Algieri. And Algieri beat Provodnikov. What this guy [Spence] did is scary. This guy's ceiling is higher than anything that I've seen in a long, long time."
"A lot of people are going pay $79.95 to watch Canelo Alvarez fight Amir Khan. You saw Amir Khan fight Chris Algieri. You saw Errol Spence fight Chris Algieri. You know what chance I would give Amir Khan to win with Errol Spence - zero, zero."
