Errol Spence Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Danny Garcia assured anyone who would listen Saturday night that he’s not ducking Errol Spence Jr. A significant faction of fans and Spence himself doubt Garcia’s willingness to fight the unbeaten IBF welterweight champ later this year. Garcia disputed that contention following his ninth-round stoppage of Brandon Rios at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas - WBC, WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) is not bothered by the fact that most experts have him pegged as the underdog when it comes to a potential unification with IBF champion Errol 'The Truth' Spence (23-0, 20 KOs). Thurman has been away from the ring since March 2017, when he won a twelve round split decision over Danny Garcia to unify their welterweight titles.
Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas - In the opening bout of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, Yordenis Ugas scored the biggest win of his career, knocking out Ray Robinson in the seventh round of an IBF Welterweight Eliminator. Ugas (21-3, 10 KOs) now holds the IBF’s No. 2 position to undefeated champion Errol Spence Jr.
On Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Cuba's Yordenis Ugas (20-3, 9 KOs) will be one fight away from securing a world title opportunity. In order to get there, he must overcome Ray Robinson (24-2, 12 KOs) in an IBF welterweight title eliminator.
Most welterweights will give you reasons why they don’t want to fight Errol Spence Jr. next. Devon Alexander isn’t most welterweights. The former two-division champion from St. Louis “would love that fight” as soon as possible. That doesn’t mean Alexander is overlooking Victor Ortiz, just that he is fully confident he’ll beat Ortiz and put himself in position to challenge the highly regarded Spence.
Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas - Featherweight Ray Ximenez (17-1, 4 KOs) pulled out a win in the headline bout of a Roy Jones Boxing card, with a tough eight round unanimous decision over late replacement Eugene Lagos (12-4-2, 7 KOs), who replaced John Vincente Moralde.
For unbeaten middleweight Cem Kilic (9-0, 5KOs), it’s a surreal experience to be doing what he loves not only in the United States but amongst some of the best that boxing has to offer. Kilic, 23, recently entered training camp with undefeated world champions Errol Spence and Jermell Charlo. Both champions are under the tutelage of esteemed trainer Derrick James in Dallas, Texas.
On February 17th from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, two-division world champion Danny Garcia (33-1, 19 KOs) returns to the ring for the first time since losing a twelve round unanimous decision in his welterweight unification clash with Keith Thurman in March 2017 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Garcia will face former world champion Brandon Rios (34-3-1, 25 KOs) in a Showtime televised main event.
Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) is targeting a fight with one of the world's top welterweights by the end of 2018 as he gets set to make his return to the ring. The former unified light-welterweight world champion has not fought since his defeat to Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in May 2016, when the Bolton boxer moved up to a catch-weight of 155-pounds and was knocked out in the sixth round at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Former two division world champion Terence Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs) believes he will end up fighting all of the top names in the welterweight division - including IBF champion Errol Spence and WBC, WBA champion Keith Thurman. Crawford, who won a world title at 135 and unified the entire division at 140, is planning to make his welterweight debut on a date in April.