Comments Thread For: DiBella: I'd Bet My House on Errol Spence Beating Manny Pacquiao!

[nacho daddy]

I'd settle for a top WW contender. But 10 to 1 says that they throw him in with Lamont Peterson. Which is a nice but safe fight.

is there any other but a safe fight for all these young cowards. WW best division but they fight guys they are positive they can beat

[nacho daddy]

Lets see a biggerYounger former Jr Middle Olympian vs a wash up 38 year old little Welter no brainer I'd vote my house too

besides all the PED's these young guys take including some of the older ones like Cunningham what are they giving them to cut weight. it is not humanly possible for these guys to get older and go into a lower class in mid 20's as when they fought in Olympics at 20 years old

[Chrismart]

No Lou. Just no.

[megas30]

Pls remember it was paq who cracked down algieri and made him sitting duck for spence jr.

By this logic, Manny has only beat "cracked" champions it seems.

[megas30]

Is Spence a great fighter? Yes no doubt. Is he ready for the elite? Well he's gotta beat one first. Alegieri was never elite and having been stopped is not a measure of another fighter. The Pacquiaos, Garcias, Thurmans, Brooks all fight back and hit as hard. Watch how vulnerable he was going to the body. Lou, slow it down there, let him develop first.

He's gotta beat an elite before he's ready for an elite? Cool story, bro.

[joseph5620]

Pls remember it was paq who cracked down algieri and made him sitting duck for spence jr.

No he didn't. Algieri was never that good in the first place.

[Boxing Goat]

Wtf?

Lou, I get that you are high on a solid win but lets not act like Algerei is a Manny Pacquiao or anything close, and triangle theories don't work in boxing. I saw Chris connect with several good hooks and if he had any real power at all, Errol could have been in trouble. This is jumping the gun bigtime. At this point, you would lose your house. Now Bradley vs. Spence is one hell of a fight I would like to see.

[Sledgeweather17]

Is Spence a great fighter? Yes no doubt. Is he ready for the elite? Well he's gotta beat one first. Alegieri was never elite and having been stopped is not a measure of another fighter. The Pacquiaos, Garcias, Thurmans, Brooks all fight back and hit as hard. Watch how vulnerable he was going to the body. Lou, slow it down there, let him develop first.

Everybody is vulnerable when they go to the body, coz you literally have to drop your hands when your go for the bod.

I do however agree that stopping someone is not a measure of another fighter, otherwise guys like Ward and Floyd would not be at the pinnacle of the sport like they are right now, coz they have failed to stop people that have been stopped by lesser opposition on many occassions, partly because they just refuse to take any risk as long as they are winning and partly because they don't have that kind of concussive power.

So yeah, Spence stopping Chris doesn't mean he is better than Pacquiao....yet, however it cannot be ignored that his performance was FAR better than Khan's, KO or not.

[megas30]

I just laugh when guys like Crawford and Spence look SPECTACULAR against garbage competition and then they become the next PAC MAN beaters. Anyone that buys this crap has ZERO knowledge about the sport of boxing.

Any of those two is hell for Pac at the moment. Pac is an illusion. I honestly feel Pac has been one of the most overrated fighters in the last twenty years. Pac has been getting credit for beating people who were either knocked out or beaten up in their previous fights.

[Sledgeweather17]

STFU Dibella, the kid is doing a good job himself at creating hype without talking shhh. Don't you dare ruin it for him. Spence is a great prospect but still has ways to go, someone better teach him to not load up on power with both hands during combinations, that shhh will get you put to sleep against the right one. Anyone dumb enough to say they'd pick a prospect to defeat an arguable legend who just beat the #2 guy in his division and a top 5 p4p fighter needs to re-examine that opinion and what is its origin. Spence biggest win is Algieri...

It's because of virtuouso's of the past that they put these kind of high expectations on up and coming prospects.

Think about it. Mike Tyson was what, 21 when he won his first world title? Ali was what, 22? Floyd was what, 21 when he beat Gennaro Hernandez?

It's the high pedegree of America's greats of the past that is putting this kind of pressure on the newer generations, and rightly so if you think about it.

There is no need to stall Spence. One fight with maybe Guerrero or someone like that and in then he needs to be in there with a top fighter, preferably for a world title.

The guys is 26 years old and 20 fights in, it's time.