Comments Thread For: Garcia: I'm A Better Fighter; All Spence Has Is Height, Weight!

[j.razor]

Brook started slowing down because of the early body work that Spence was putting in. I like Mikey a lot and he could possibly surprise me, but I just don't see him being able to withstand that constant pressure and body work from a bigger, stronger guy and let's not forget the sparring sessions with Mayweather who is definitely faster and quicker than Mikey who Spence was able to put hands on as well.

In the 1st session only cuz he caught Floyd sleeping.

[j.razor]

Respect to mikey for daring to be great. He's putting all those pbc welterweights to shame.
But Spence is gonna get him down the stretch.

What do you mean all? Its was only Thurman & now porter.

[j.razor]

Spence is good but not that good. Brooke was still taxing his ass for 7 rounds before GGGs damage kicked in.

That's BS. It was an even fight half way through the fight then Errol turned it up on brook. How do you think he got the stoppage by one punch? LMMFAO! It was the OTHER socket Errol busted..lol

[Bullrider]

Mikey Garcia should win in this fight. It will be good for the sport. It doesn't even look like it's about the money for Garcia.

We'll see who is the next to step up in a major way like this if Mikey wins. I mean everyone is about the money right now. Can't even get some heavyweight champion to fight for $15 mil and 4 titles. It's terrible. Mikey is only guaranteed $3 mil.

[juandabomb]

That's BS. It was an even fight half way through the fight then Errol turned it up on brook. How do you think he got the stoppage by one punch? LMMFAO! It was the OTHER socket Errol busted..lol

LOL..dude is on some cheap weed or something..that jab and body work from spence slowly started the shift of the tide vs brook. one punch right..LOL

[j.razor]

Duran ask for a rematch never got it he said he trained 2 weeks for Hearns other than that he did a number on everyone else. Klitschko was jab right hold now if a ref wanted he could have DQ him for excessive holding but boxing is ruled by who brings in the most money not the rules just look at Floyd held a lot used elbow all the time and used steroids with IV Flush and I’m sure it was known

SMH....FOH with that dumb talk. Floyd held little & when it was the right time, he was using his elbow for separation when they were holding him, he didn't use it to hit & he got tested multiple times BEFORE the IV, duh.

[vitali1999]

If it’s that evident to Errol, and such a mismatch in his eyes, why did he take this fight. Seems like a lose-lose when you listen to Spence’s own words.

He took it for the money. You know that

[pasawayako]

Duran ask for a rematch never got it he said he trained 2 weeks for Hearns other than that he did a number on everyone else. Klitschko was jab right hold now if a ref wanted he could have DQ him for excessive holding but boxing is ruled by who brings in the most money not the rules just look at Floyd held a lot used elbow all the time and used steroids with IV Flush and I’m sure it was known

Everybody knew that floIV is a steroid cheat and he does so many illegal tactics in the ring and with the help of a referee.

[SweetPbfAli]

Brook was never outboxing Spence mate. You didn't know what you were watching.

Brook lost the three main battles within the fight, that's why Spence took over.

The three battles were, the jab battle, the body attack battle, and the mental/physical dominance battle.

I'll explain.

From the beginning Spence established his jab, you no doubt saw that. Brook tried to take it away by countering over the jab with a straight right hand, and it worked initially. But Spence adapted by switching his jab up, from quick, flicking jabs to hard thudding jabs, mixed in with feint jabs and blinding jabs. By constantly switching up the jab, Brook was no longer able to counter the jab effectively and having to figure out and constantly anticipate what kind of jab Spence would throw put a mental tall of course.

The body attack. Again, from the beginning, Spence was ripping Brook through the body. Brook, smartly, switched things up by being first to the body. He started throwing a straight right to Spence's body, a very hard and thudding one I might add. But Spence instantly adapted. Evey time Brook would throw a straight right to the body Spence would counter with an overhead left to the head. Now it became a battle of wills, Spence was willing to take the body shots to land his own head shots, would Brook be willing to continue take those overhead straight lefts to land that body shot? The answer is no as Brook began to throw that shot less and less and eventually abandoned it completely.

The other battle was the physical/mental battle. Spence has always been bigger and stronger than his opponents, able to bully them and ragdoll them at will. Brook was bigger and stronger and he knew it, and he also knew that Spence had never gone up against someone that could ragdoll him before. If you noticed Brook roughed Spence up a lot in the early rounds and showed his physical dominance. While the action was physical in nature, the attack was mental. It was meant to disillusion Spence about his strength and physical dominance, to make him cave mentally.

But Spence just stuck to the game plan. He kept hitting that body and attacking aggressively and effectively whenever Brook had to take a breather. He kept wrestling with Brook even though Brook was manhandling him because he knew had the superior stamina and he knew that even if Brook was stronger, the difference was small enough that the effort to wrestle him would tire out the Brook.

All these things, and some of the other smaller battles within that fight that Brook lost, culminated in Brook's demise in the second half of the fight.

If I had to describe the kind of fighter Spence is, I'd say that he is an investor. He knows there will be greater rewards in the long run, as long as he puts in the effort and makes the right moves early on. It's a twelve round fight, and the winner is the one who invests wisely early on.

Excellent post!

[P4Pdunny]

We’ll see what happens