Now the WBO is mandating Crawford to face Rocha. I just hope the WBA and IBF will do the same since Spence seems not serious about the WBC mandatory on Thurman. I really hope Spence gets ktfo so badly in his next fight, boxing is better without him.
It really seems to me that Errol Spence Jr. is just messing with everyone else's time without any intention to make a fight happen, in a recent article that I've read about this Spence-Thurman fight, they are saying that they are targeting the fight somewhere in April but up until now there's no official announcement that a fight is indeed happening at the forecasted month. Surely they need over a month to market the fight, so it's safe to say that there will no fight happening in April.
Moreover, Errol Spence Jr. is not afraid to cancel this fight because there's no belt at risk, so there will be no stripping of belts that will happen. This kind of boxer shouldn't be supported, I know he got talents but this is too much, he doesn't deserve to have belts if this is way to keep them safe.
April is just around the corner, so I doubt that the target date for this fight is going to happen. And worst, we haven't heard any yet from both camp if this fight is push or not regardless of what date it is.
Spence has been given by the body to not fight for the belt in the line, but to go up in 154 lbs. So he has all the privilege given to him and yet he is taking advantage of it. Although I saw some tweet that Spence vs Crawford is going to happen in June, but I think the person is just a troll so I won't post it here.
That's really not possible. WBC president gave Spence this kind of advantage where he could have a mandatory fight and bring it to 154 for a reason because there's a twist on it, in-order to make the Crawford vs Spence unification fight, Spence should make this happen first and deal with Thurman. But since we have no clues here about this bout, it is indeed safe to assume that there will be no unification fight or even Spence-Thurman fight.
I agree with @stadus, Spence is way beyond the line and already gave the industry a bad image just because he wanted to secure the belts without fighting any boxers that are tougher than him. And there's this Al Haymon who is backing Spence to have his way.