By: Sean Crose
Undisputed welterweight titlist Terence Crawford has advised Travis Hartman that Errol Spence has certainly activated the rematch clause for a second go spherical between the 2 fighters. “He exercised his rematch,” stated Crawford, “and that’s the combat that’s imagined to occur subsequent…we will see how negotiations go.” Crawford then added: “We imagined to combat in December, and yeah, I’m again in coaching.” Whether or not he’s going to combat Spence in December as indicated stays to be seen. Nonetheless, it’s notable that Spence is prepared to step within the ring to face Crawford as soon as extra.
The preliminary combat between the 2 high boxers, which went down this previous summer season, ended up being much more one sided than most anybody might have anticipated. Crawford completely dominated Spence, even if the 2 males had been largely seen as being evenly matched. The combat ended up being correctly stopped within the ninth spherical by the referee. Spence, his face a bloody, puffy mess, was merely absorbing an excessive amount of punishment. Spence followers have made their excuses because the combat, after all, a kind of excuses being that Spence was weight drained getting into the undisputed welterweight championship bout.
So will Spence and Crawford combat a division up, at junior middleweight, the second time round? “Effectively,” Crawford stated, “the contract states that both one or the opposite gotta notify in writing that he can not make the burden.” Crawford seems snug with the prospect of going through Spence at 154 if want be. “If not,” he stated, “then the combat might be at 147. The contract states that it has to go at 47 since neither I or Errol notified one another stating that we are able to’t make the burden.”
With that being stated, it’s arduous to think about Spence coming again to defeat Crawford at any weight, so dominant was Crawford of their preliminary combat. Whereas there’s no query, regardless of what some now get pleasure from saying, that Spence is a terrific fighter, he merely wasn’t in the identical league as Spence when the 2 males battled again in July. After all, boxing being boxing, one by no means is aware of how the second Crawford-Spence combat would possibly play out. Within the meantime, there’s speak of Crawford going as much as face tremendous middleweight king Canelo Alvarez. Crawford is just too skilled a professional, nevertheless, to maintain his thoughts off the duty at hand, whether or not it’s a rematch with Spence, a December stay-busy combat, or every other that problem that’s put in his means.
