Errol Spence Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
LAS VEGAS – Freddie Roach sensed last week that he took the news of Errol Spence Jr.’s abrupt withdrawal from his huge pay-per-view fight against Manny Pacquiao harder than the Filipino legend himself.
Four division champion Mikey Garcia has given his take on the upcoming welterweight clash between Manny Pacquiao and late replacement Yordenis Ugas, who holds the WBA world title at 147-pounds.
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has received medical documents to confirm the eye injury of WBC, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence. Spence was scheduled to face eight division champion Manny Pacquiao this coming Saturday night, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. has become familiar with the recurring theme following each win these days. The unbeaten welterweight contender from Grand Prairie, Texas rose to the occasion over the weekend, scoring five knockdowns en route to an eighth-round knockout of Lithuania’s Egidijus Kavaliauskas (22-2-1, 18KOs) this past Saturday at Ford Center at The Star in nearby Frisco. Ortiz accepted the fight while awaiting a bigger opportunity in the lucrative 147-pound division, namely a crack at reigning WBO titlist Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford (37-0, 28KOs).
By Corey Erdman - When it was announced that Errol Spence Jr. had sustained a retinal tear and would not be able to fight Manny Pacquiao on August 21, there was a collective sense of disappointment that boxing had lost perhaps its biggest fight of the year. However, there should have also been a feeling of relief, as the injury being discovered ahead of time may have preserved the career of one of the sport’s brightest stars.
Bernard Hopkins fought as a professional boxer for 28 years and until he was a month shy of his 52nd birthday. The Hall of Fame fighter and former middleweight and light heavyweight champion Hopkins (55-8-2, 32 KOs) has pretty much seen and heard it all throughout his time in the sport, which nowadays also involves being a partner with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions.
Eight division champion Manny Pacquiao has no issue with facing Errol Spence next - if the WBC, IBF welterweight champion receives a clean bill of health. Pacquiao was scheduled to face Spence in the main event of a Fox Sports pay-per-view card on August 21 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
WBC, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence is very disappointed with the unexpected injury that forced him to withdraw from a scheduled pay-per-view fight with eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao.
Unified Welterweight Champion Errol Spence, Jr. was forced to withdraw from his blockbuster FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View showdown with eight-division and former welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, August 21 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas due to a retinal tear in his left eye.
Eight-division world champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao has no use for a rearview mirror, at least when it comes to his illustrious boxing career, so says his Hall of Fame trainer of 20 years, world-famous Freddie Roach.