Errol Spence Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Jaron Ennis has been quietly knocking on the door politely asking to get in. At this point, however, he’s ready to kick it down. For years now, the Philly star has flashed the sort of talent that’s seldom seen. With the 26-year-old hunting for a world title shot, he was forced to play the waiting game while the top of the welterweight division unclogged itself.
The best week of boxing in years didn’t go quite as expected. Two highly anticipated matches perceived as nearly even going in turned into something else entirely. From two superfights we got a pair of singular performances for the ages. In the last thirty years, there are a relative handful of performances like the pair we got just four days apart: Roy Jones-James Toney, Floyd Mayweather-Diego Corrales, Bernard Hopkins-Felix Trinidad, Vernon Forrest-Shane Mosley; there are a few more, but not many.
Brian McIntyre thinks Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford’s second round knockdown of Errol Spence Jr. was more than just of the “flash” variety. The longtime trainer of the newly crowned undisputed welterweight champion from Omaha, Nebraska, feels his charge could have stopped Spence as early as the second round when Crawford scored the first of three knockdowns in their high-profile fight.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It wasn’t the left/right combination in the second round. It wasn’t the two knockdowns in the seventh. And it wasn’t the barrage in the ninth that finally forced Harvey Dock’s hand. No, the moment Terence Crawford won his fight with Errol Spence Jr. on Saturday night coincided with the moment Eminem stepped from behind a curtain, sidled up alongside the reigning WBO welterweight champion and strolled toward the ring with him as “Lose Yourself” echoed through T-Mobile Arena.
Keith Thurman has a simple pitch for Terence Crawford. If the native of Omaha, Nebraska, and three-division titlist wants to experience atmospheres like the one last Saturday night inside a packed house at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, he may want to consider fighting him sometime soon.
Shakur Stevenson is not only talented but he also has an eye for it. From the moment the former Olympic silver medalist threw on his first pair of boxing gloves, he studied those who came before him. Floyd Mayweather, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ray Robinson, and a handful of others - are considered the best fighters the sport of boxing has ever seen.
Keith Thurman has a new nickname for Terence Crawford. "Crafty Crawford." The former welterweight titlist from Clearwater, Florida, praised Crawford after his magisterial performance against Errol Spence Jr. last night in front of a packed crowd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to become the undisputed champion of the 147-pound division.
LAS VEGAS – Terence Crawford considered himself the best boxer, pound-for-pound, in the sport prior to his legendary destruction of Errol Spence Jr. The three-weight world champion contended that there shouldn’t be any doubt about it after his career-defining,
LAS VEGAS – Errol Spence Jr. barely had time by the start of his post-fight press conference late Saturday night to process the brutal beating he had just absorbed at the hands of Terence Crawford.
By Corey Erdman - When boxing matches are referred to as “50/50 fights,” quite often it’s at the very least a slight exaggeration. The cruel reality of the sport of boxing is that most fights that take place are as far from a 50/50 proposition as will be allowed by a local commission. As for the ones we see on television, by and large the bout was made by a promoter who both