Spence Got Exposed Last Night!

[techliam]

By your own rationalization and explanation that is what I meant by saying the 147 pound division is a very stacked and loaded division with lots of talent because just as you said that either of these guys can SD one another on any given day; For the exception of Manny Pacquiao.

I doubt seriously that Manny Pacquiao would fight any of those guys unless he is ready to call it quits for his boxing career. Given his age of 42, loss of stamina and slowed timing and reflexes. He wouldn't stand a chance with these young guys down in the trenches.

We seem to share the same logic, but I don’t agree this older Pacquiao is a great fighter. Yes he is, in respect to his career, but putting him in a one fight situation, I don’t think he’s fighting at ATG level.

When you consider that the likes of Thurman, Spence etc are a level below, you can see why I disagree that the division is loaded with ‘talent’. I think it’s loaded with names, but lacking in respective talent.

[DumpkinsPlus5]

Nah agree to disagree, you'll see in time. Last night was close, I dont have a problem with it being scored either way but I think Spence would do better in a rematch, he processes better and he prob confirmed a few things about himself too...it was good experience.

Thurman will get stopped after being competitive early, Garcia is stylistically a tougher 12 round fight but prob a clear decision for Spence, you need a chin or next level ability to keep up with Spence at WW, Thurman doesn't have quite enough of either, that's the way I see it anyway.

Spence is in their pitching against any of the champions at 54-60 dont be fooled by Porters toughness, but I do think Crawford beats him very close.

Yep. We all know how Shawn Porter gets down. Spence should be humbled, by the realization that as good as he is, he can't walk through everyone. This experience should serve him well going forward. Especially, when he moves up in weight.

[R_Walken]

Spence got a KD and took control of the last 1/3 of the fight but he didn’t win ?

He didn’t get exposed it played out like the Brook fight competitive for the first 2/3 then slence took over the only difference is Brook got his face Broke & Porter didn’t

[SkillspayBills]

You continue to expose yourself as an ignoramus. Errol quite clearly won 8 rounds. You don't win a fight just because you throw punches

[Citizen Koba]

Your prior post kinda glosses over what type of ‘adversity’ Spence faced. It wasn’t a temporary thing, where Spence showed some lions heart to overcome and carry on as usual. This type of adversity is simply Spence fighting someone of his own calibre, and the result and fight showed that clearly. He didn’t overcome that type of adversity because it will reappear every time he fights someone on his own level.

The hype suggested Spence was well above that calibre of fighter, I.e someone who would beat any welterweight clearly, and likely have huge success at higher weights. I think that is clearly wrong. Spence showed he isn’t much above Porter (if at all) and Brook, and Porter has shown he isn’t above the likes of Thurman and Garcia. Unless this is some mysterious blip on the radar, I think it shows exactly the type of calibre fighter we are looking at

Ah, I see so you're saying he didn't live up to the way some guys had hyped him? Well to me that's a massively different thing to getting 'exposed' and has a lot more to do with the naïveté of certain fans rather than the quality of the fighter themselves. Both dudes are among the top Welterweights and are superb fighters. Only thing that got exposed was the dudes who seem to think that some fighters are like superhuman demi-gods,

[rickJen]

This is what happens when a fighter fights a long list of cans,
then begins to think he's invincible.

[techliam]

Ah, I see so you're saying he didn't live up to the way some guys had hyped him? Well to me that's a massively different thing to getting 'exposed' and has a lot more to do with the naïveté of certain fans rather than the quality of the fighter themselves. Both dudes are among the top Welterweights and are superb fighters. Only thing that got exposed was the dudes who seem to think that some fighters are like superhuman demi-gods,

Yes

I don’t think he was exposed, because I didn’t believe the hype in the first place

He clearly isn’t a bum or a low level fighter. That to me seems the only possible scenario to throw the term exposed around

[OnePunch]

It was a good, close, hard fought fight between 2 top 5 welters. Nothing more. Nothing less.


The adjectives like "exposed", "overrated", really only come into play when you start getting into the promoter / network / race issues.


If Spence were a white fighter with Matchroom, there would be 100 threads about how he was exposed, and is a hype job who beat only cans. We all know it. We've seen it before......

[MASTER OF you]

spence got exposed! enough said!

[Larry the boss]

exposed?? it was 2 top prime elite boxers going at it