Errol Spence Jr. has envisioned every possible outcome of his career-defining fight against Terence Crawford on July 29 – even losing and getting “beat up.”

Spence explained the thoughts that have run through his mind during a nearly completed training camp when he appeared on a recent episode of “The PBC Podcast.” The unbeaten Spence emphasized that he is confident he will become the first fighter to defeat Crawford, but the IBF/WBA/WBC welterweight champion also gave a refreshingly honest look into his psyche as the biggest fight of his career draws near.

“I mean, I envision a lotta different scenarios,” Spence told co-hosts Kenneth Bouhairie and Michael Rosenthal. “That’s with every fight. Every fight that I done fought, I always envision a hundred different scenarios. Shoot, some scenarios have me losing. So, every fight is a different scenario and I just, you know, some scenarios got me hurt, you know, coming back and winning. Some scenarios, you know, I get beat up.

“You know, it’s just different scenarios that go through my head throughout training camp. So, but you know, I just think it’s gonna be just an all-time great fight. I think it’s gonna be one of those old-school fights because we both have the old-school mentality. So, I think, well, I know I’mma put on a great performance and, you know, I hope he’s coming in to put on a great performance, too.”

Oddsmakers have installed Spence as an underdog, albeit barely, against Crawford for the first time in the 2012 U.S. Olympian’s 10-year professional career. Spence (28-0, 22 KOs), of DeSoto, Texas, or Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs), of Omaha, Nebraska, can become boxing’s first fully unified welterweight champion of the four-belt era by winning their 12-round, 147-pound title unification fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The 33-year-old Spence doesn’t think he has shown weakness by admitting that the thought of losing has at least entered his mind in advance of their Showtime Pay-Per-View main event.

“I’m realistic,” Spence said. “I’m realistic about anything and everything, so it don’t matter what it is. Like, I mean, my mind’s gonna give me 300 different outcomes. … People think about [losing]. They just don’t say nothing. You know, it’s too macho not to say anything, but it comes in everybody head. Like, ‘What if I lost? Something happens and you lose?’ Like, you think about it. … Of course I think I’m not gonna lose, but it’s still gonna pop in my head, like the, you know, the imagination of something happening and you might lose. It still pop in people heads. It might be just me. I don’t know.”

The left-handed Spence will end a 15-month layoff when he encounters Crawford in the featured fight of a four-bout pay-per-view telecast ($84.99; 8 p.m. EDT; 5 p.m. PDT). Spence last fought in April 2022, when he stopped Cuba’s Yordenis Ugas (27-5, 12 KOs) in the 10th round of their 12-round welterweight title unification fight at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.