Topic: Boxing: Errol Spence vs Keith Thurman - page 29. (Read 7339 times)

The amount of people disrespect Errol Spence is crazy.

I follow boxing more than any other sport and I promise you the only person who has a chance at beating Spence is Bud Crawford. Thurman and Ennis will get DESTROYED 100%.

You guys underestimate Spence. He is a huge welterweight who has knockout power in both hands, ferocious body puncher and can fight on the inside.

The spence disrespect is out of control.

I was already annoyed by Errol Spence and PBC since the days when they aren't responding directly or indirectly nor proposed counter-offers to Bob Arum and Terrence Crawford before. Now Spence is becoming more annoying. He actually has overdue mandatories to all his 3 belts but because he is a PPV fighter and PBC is one of the biggest promotions in boxing, these sanctioning bodies are reluctant to impose a serious mandate on him without getting the approval of PBC who's likely to get Spence approval as well.

Stanionis is supposed to get his shot at the real WBA belt. The same with Boots who already won an IBF eliminator since early last year. Vergil Ortiz had been the WBC number 1 for a time and should be given a mandatory status too or maybe an eliminator against Thurman. Too many good names are involved in Spence yet he continues to remain silent or post nonsense something in public. And I honestly do not understand why he won't take Thurman who's IMO the weakest of these names.

If he will find another opponent, then I don't understand boxing anymore.

he should not go anywhere as there's already a clear fight for him that is also competitive and him being the defending champ.
https://www.boxingscene.com/errol-spence-vs-keith-thurman-title-fight-approved-by-wba--170619

What would happen to that? Why is Spence is not accepting challenges on legit opponent that has a big chance of beating him?

Yeah, but it just coincide with the title of this thread? it's supposedly Spence vs Thurman and then the poll shows that his fans want Thurman to be his next opponent. So it's either this fight is off now or the fight is going to happen as the fight fans voted their for Spence to fight Thurman.

And so it will be a disappointment again if Spence will chose other fighters in his April fight. Crawford is out of the picture and as I have said, Ennis is fighting on the undercard of Davis vs Hector Garcia and might not be available in April and then the high risk low reward that we are talking about. Unless if will be mandated by one of his belts that he need to face his mandatory - Ennis next.

Just because Spence posted this poll from his official Twitter account, it doesn't mean that he is going to schedule against the athlete who gets the most number of votes. I posted about the poll, because this is the latest news that we are having regarding the fight. IMO, he just wants to keep up the hype. I am OK with either Crawford or Thurman. But they should make the announcement at least by February. It takes some time to analyze the odds and decide whether to place a bet or not. I don't know much about Ennis, so placing a bet is going to be risky.

Yeah, probably he is trying to mislead the public with this kind of polls and maybe he is weighing what the fans wanted to see for him. And it seems that we have fallen for his trap as the votes goes to Thurman. How quickly though we forget that we all wanted Crawford for him but it seems that the news has died down and we are settled for the next best option and if which there is hype but we all know that Thurman has a long rest and probably have ring rust and that will be advantageous to Spence and that might be his safe fight next in April for all we know.

Well yes, I think that what diverted Pacquiao a lot was the blessed politics, I believe that no one should be contaminated with such a thing, it always clouds many things and this causes many inaccurate results to occur, already for those fights Paquiao was very committed to politics of his country, and apparently it did not go very well, and it is a pity because all those energies that politics dedicated to him would have been given more to boxing, perhaps the story would have been different, he lost against Ugas, it was due to the great deconcentration I had and it was all because of politics and we all know that you cannot survive in boxing based on pure talent, you always have to strengthen yourself with good training and 100% concentration.


I know Spence is a very controversial fighter, but what I'm wondering is why can't he give him the fight against Crawford? In case of him, he has already come out of that, it is already a commitment that he must assume, also for that the fans want to have him in action, in my personal opinion a boxer has to be prepared for any type of challenge, this one in particular is one that I would have already fulfilled last year, now he is dragging on that commitment in 2023 and it is not a very good thing, Crawford can continue to annoy all he wants and achieve his goal quickly if he keeps pushing.

     

Errol Spence Jr’s trainer skeptical about Terence Crawford fight happening




Source: https://www.boxingnews24.com/2023/01/errol-spence-jrs-trainer-skeptical-about-terence-crawford-fight-happening/

Spence would absolutely destroy Thurman. Thurman has been ducking spence for years for a good reason. Thurman hates being hit in the body and Errol is the best body puncher in all of boxing. Thurman also cannot fight on the back foot which is why he was embarrassed against Pacquiao. Thurman has a very low chance of being Spence in my opinion.


I also think Ennis will lose to Spence. Who has Ennis beaten? He is a good fighter but not on the level of Spence and Bud. People really are forgetting just how seasoned and legit Spence is lol.

He's just making the public more confused on his aim and get them hyped by pretending to face any boxer who will get most votes in his poll. Truth is, he is just delaying his fight against Thurman and we should not forget that this is a mandatory fight too, so that means fighting Thurman is almost inevitable in his side except if he goes for Boots or Crawford? We already know the score between them as Spence chances to win are not that strong. Maybe Spence is aiming for the April Fools

Well, I for one, believe that Keith Thurman has a slight to decent chance against Errol Spence Jr. although that would be one of the toughest fights that Thurman will have to endure next to his fight with the legendary Pacquiao. I just definitely think that Spence is playing some games where he will get his fight delayed against Thurman because that has to be the least thing he could do to get back on Thurman as this is a mandatory fight.

If Spence Jr. accepts a bout against Boots Ennis, he would be seriously knocked down and get stripped of the belts because I really don't think that Spence got the capabilities to get the opposite outcome. Ennis would definitely prevail on their fight.

People underestimate just how lethal Spence is. I don't see anyone other than Crawford (and that's a dangerous fight) beating him. He would knock Thurman out would EASILY beat Ennis.

Spence doesn't have a granite chin but it is good enough. He has good stamina, is a ferocious body puncher and can fight on the inside. The only concern I have with Spence is the two car accidents he has been in. What toll will they have on him?

Probably that fat man is just a meme or something or Spence trolling someone with that picture. Interesting results there (I didn't vote), but yeah most likely my vote will go to Crawford as well.

@Jawhead999 - they are excited because they believed that Thurman has a chance and then some media people are hyping Thurman as a true challenger as compare to Crawford or Ennis. Yes, Boots is very dangerous that why Spence is trying to get away from him and I do believed that Boots can knock out Spence because Errol is not known to have a good chin and Boots has punching power to knock anyone at 147 lbs. But let's wait for Spence, he is building the hype as who will be his next fight this April X.

I don't know why people are more excited to see Spence vs Thurman rather than Crawford, however since Spence has posted Boots face, it seems he will fight him. Not a bad fight I guess, Boots also fought a strong boxer. He will fight against Karen Chukhadzhian first at this month, this also a prove if he's deserve to fight with Spence since he will get IBF interim belt.

Although Boots record seems to be very dangerous, but I don't think he can knock out Spence.

Lol. Crawford got my vote. However, I am aware that it is less likely. Errol Spence has uploaded a picture of a fat man to his twitter. Who is he? Is boxing connected to that? He will announce his opponent within the next days if he is serious about returning in April. We are even more clueless by the silence on the side of Thurman. I believe Boots has a match this week. He may be taken by Spence next. I adore if that is to happen because both fighters are unbeaten and they always punch to deliver KO endings.

I guess there's no other fighter that Spence would fight if Thurman is indeed a mandatory challenger. The hype between him and Crawford is already over due to this mandatory fight, and if he bets Thurman, then we might start building that hype again and hopefully they will make it happen.

We will surely hear the confirmation this month or next month if that fight is on April this year.

So does it mean that Spence is going to fight Thurman now? or he is gauging what the public opinion is and fortunately it was a hit for those who voted because they want Thurman to be his next opponent.

And it seems that they accepted that he won't be fighting Crawford or Ennis next because of the high risk low reward for him.

So hopefully he has finalized his decision to fight Thurman this April.

LOL.. a few days back, Errol Spence posted this in Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ErrolSpenceJr/status/1608830906516779011

The post only hints that he will be back in the ring by April 2023. But gives no further clue on who will be the challenger and where the fight will take place. Also, the exact date is not given (posted as "April Xx").

And more interestingly, he posted another tweet, in reply to a poll put up by another user on the likely opponent:

https://twitter.com/ErrolSpenceJr/status/1608831449205182474

The results from the poll (3,583 votes till now) are as follows: Thurman- 48%, Crawford- 35.5%, Boots- 9.1%, Stanionis- 7.4%.

Yeah, but it's not happening for now, we have seen the arguments before so let's forget Spence as being the a great welterweight for this era. He has a good resume but he lack the name that will define his legacy in the future. And so let time decide whether he could be mentioned in the same breathe as other great 147 lbs, for me he is not even in the top 10 of all time greats at welter.

Anyhow, they believed that they have cemented their legacy already. And see if this fight is going to happen at the first quarter. This could only be the second best fight for Spence. He could probably stay for another one fight in 147 lbs, I'm seeing that he might give Ennis his chance before going up to the 154 lbs to face Charlo or whoever will be the champion that time. We all know that Charlo is injured and so his fight with Tszyu is postponed until he is 100% healthy. So in the meantime, Spence stays fight Ennis or whoever is the next mandatory for him to close his campaign at this division.

I guess you guys can really say that because it seems that Errol Spence is somehow afraid to face and fight Crawford, and if that is truly the case then facing Boots Ennis as well in the future will be a tough challenge for the current 3-belt holder because Ennis has been compared to Crawford when he was a bit younger that what he is today and some says that Ennis is an upgraded version of him. Because of that, I'm inclined to see Ennis getting his shot to face the belt holders.

That's a straight fact you got there my friend! Dealing with Terence Crawford and end the fight in Errol Spence's favor is the one and only way I see to get Spence's name clear in the line and to be named as the best boxer of the welterweight division because defeating Crawford now will also mean that he will be the undisputed champion at 147 pounds.
If he can do that, there will be no argument nor doubts anymore about him, but that is if he will fight Crawford inside the year of 2023 because delaying their fight also means that he's just scared to face the current Crawford.