Comments Thread For: Gary Russell Jr: "Something Was Wrong With Errol Spence"

[SplitSecond]

Being in a accident breaking multiple bones, eye surgery, and being at a weight all your career ( weight drained) will do the trick.... Not taking anything away from Crawford ( he did what he needed to do) but everyone is making it seem like this win was more than it was...

Yea. I heard he broke every bone in his body. Amazing his recovery powers.

[champion4ever]

Don't say that Russell! They will say that you are making excuses! Not taking anything away from Crawford; Who fought both superbly and masterful in that bout.

Aside, from Crawford being the better fighter and athlete. However, Errol Spence has only himself to blame for his lackluster, uneven performance and subsequent loss.

Errol appeared to have aged some fifteen years since the last time we saw him inside of a boxing ring with both Danny Garcia and Yordenis Ugas. He wasn't all the way back from those bouts either.

For example: In the Garcia fight; He took several rounds off without throwing any punches. Which is tell-tale sign that something was wrong with him and the Ugas fight he got hurt and buzzed several times in that fight as well.

What I am saying is that while the car accident and detached retina may have played a major factor in his performance against Crawford.

However, it wasn't the main factor why he performed so poorly that night. The main factor was Terence "Bud" Crawford's commitment, discipline, dedication and determination to his craft.

Bud wanted it a whole more than EJ and it showed. Which is why he was the better man that night.

[techliam]

Article mentions Spence looking spectacular in the Garcia and Ugas fights

he looked pretty poor against Garcia. Ugas he looked ok, but Ugas’ style didn’t exactly bother him

ive said consistently on here, look at all Spence’s fights properly, instead of whitewashing them based on the outcome alone.

Spence went life and death with Brook. It was a razor thin fight up until Brook suffered, incidentally, the same problem he suffered against Golovkin.

Spence vs Porter was a razor thin fight again. Spence barely edged it out

Spence vs Garcia - whilst Spence clearly won, it wasn’t a dominant performance. For someone like Garcia, you’d have expected someone of Spence’s supposed calibre to dominate him

It looks to me the injuries outside of the ring aren’t major factors - he’s had question marks over his actual level since at least 2019. It’s no shock that Crawford outclassed him, severely

[Califire209]

Spence said he had a great weight cut,, Team Spence constantly down played Crawfords skills and acomplishments. Big Head Derrick James & Errol was acting ****y AF and got Brutally Humbled. Crawford came out Southpaw and outclassed

[wrecksracer]

Spence said he had a great weight cut,, Team Spence constantly down played Crawfords skills and acomplishments. Big Head Derrick James & Errol was acting ****y AF and got Brutally Humbled. Crawford came out Southpaw and outclassed

Spence was literally running around saying a car crash couldn't kill him, what's Crawford going to do? I guess he found out.

[Theshotyoudontsee]

Article mentions Spence looking spectacular in the Garcia and Ugas fights

he looked pretty poor against Garcia. Ugas he looked ok, but Ugas’ style didn’t exactly bother him

ive said consistently on here, look at all Spence’s fights properly, instead of whitewashing them based on the outcome alone.

Spence went life and death with Brook. It was a razor thin fight up until Brook suffered, incidentally, the same problem he suffered against Golovkin.

Spence vs Porter was a razor thin fight again. Spence barely edged it out

Spence vs Garcia - whilst Spence clearly won, it wasn’t a dominant performance. For someone like Garcia, you’d have expected someone of Spence’s supposed calibre to dominate him

It looks to me the injuries outside of the ring aren’t major factors - he’s had question marks over his actual level since at least 2019. It’s no shock that Crawford outclassed him, severely

I said before the Bud fight that Spence had always underwhelmed. Always a solid very good fighter, but he was never a risk taker. He ran from Mikey, and after that fight I said his chin is suspect, he was afraid Mikey would hurt him. His fanboys droned on and on about Spence wanting to show he could "outbox" Mikey. That was BS. Spence has never been an overly aggressive fighter, because he was worried about getting hurt, period.

I watched him at the beginning of his career and he was a beast. But over time, it became apparent he was not a killer. Which is fine, he is a nice guy....but Bud was always built different.

I guarantee Derrick James thought that Spence would bully Bud around the ring, break him down and stop him. Bud was stronger, hit harder and is alot more talented. Pre accident, post accident, etc, it makes no difference. Spence was never a killer. PBC protected him from Bud for years as they knew he would get stopped.

[4truth]

Granted, Gary and I are no brain surgeons but we saw what we saw. Spence's reactions and timing were just not right.It was like he couldn't see the shots coming at him, no reaction at all to shots incoming.

[HeadShots]

Stevie Wonder could see Spence was shot to hell.


People always compare a boxing KO to a car crash. Spence had all his teeth blown out of his head in an actual car crash after smashing his head on concrete. Unconscious. Stretchered to ER.


Yet some how he's perfectly fine.


You would have to be a RE TARD

[Rockenator]

Article mentions Spence looking spectacular in the Garcia and Ugas fights

he looked pretty poor against Garcia. Ugas he looked ok, but Ugas’ style didn’t exactly bother him

ive said consistently on here, look at all Spence’s fights properly, instead of whitewashing them based on the outcome alone.

Spence went life and death with Brook. It was a razor thin fight up until Brook suffered, incidentally, the same problem he suffered against Golovkin.

Spence vs Porter was a razor thin fight again. Spence barely edged it out

Spence vs Garcia - whilst Spence clearly won, it wasn’t a dominant performance. For someone like Garcia, you’d have expected someone of Spence’s supposed calibre to dominate him

It looks to me the injuries outside of the ring aren’t major factors - he’s had question marks over his actual level since at least 2019. It’s no shock that Crawford outclassed him, severely

Garcia was/is overrated and that fight was predictable. Ugas? A pinata boxing style, leading with his head with absolutely no movement. It was like working on a stationary, heavy bag that dented easier. The real question is what will Errol do now? I don't think a rematch with Bud at any weight is in his best interest. Another blowout loss to Crawford will really weaken his appeal. Spence needs to get some confidence back and boxing fans need to see if he can rebound from his first defeat. The PBC hype machine had a lot of posters here on the Boxing Scene talking about how great he was and how he was going to destroy Crawford - - who hadn't fought anybody. And Spence needs to fight a quality opponent and not another cream puff, PBC candidate.

[HeadShots]

Article mentions Spence looking spectacular in the Garcia and Ugas fights

he looked pretty poor against Garcia. Ugas he looked ok, but Ugas’ style didn’t exactly bother him

ive said consistently on here, look at all Spence’s fights properly, instead of whitewashing them based on the outcome alone.

Spence went life and death with Brook. It was a razor thin fight up until Brook suffered, incidentally, the same problem he suffered against Golovkin.

Spence vs Porter was a razor thin fight again. Spence barely edged it out

Spence vs Garcia - whilst Spence clearly won, it wasn’t a dominant performance. For someone like Garcia, you’d have expected someone of Spence’s supposed calibre to dominate him

It looks to me the injuries outside of the ring aren’t major factors - he’s had question marks over his actual level since at least 2019. It’s no shock that Crawford outclassed him, severely

Ugas almost knocked him out.


Garcia was 5 ft tall with a huge head.