By: Sean Crose
Undisputed welterweight titlist Terence Crawford has informed Travis Hartman that Errol Spence has certainly activated the rematch clause for a second go spherical between the 2 fighters. “He exercised his rematch,” mentioned Crawford, “and that’s the fight that’s supposed to happen next…we shall see how negotiations go.” Crawford then added: “We supposed to fight in December, and yeah, I’m back in training.” Whether he’s going to struggle Spence in December as indicated stays to be seen. Still, it’s notable that Spence is keen to step within the ring to face Crawford as soon as extra.
The preliminary struggle between the 2 high boxers, which went down this previous summer season, ended up being way more one sided than most anybody might have anticipated. Crawford completely dominated Spence, even though the 2 males have been largely seen as being evenly matched. The struggle 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 for the reason that struggle, after all, a kind of excuses being that Spence was weight drained coming into the undisputed welterweight championship bout.
So will Spence and Crawford struggle a division up, at junior middleweight, the second time round? “Well,” Crawford mentioned, “the contract states that either one or the other gotta notify in writing that he can no longer make the weight.” Crawford seems snug with the prospect of dealing with Spence at 154 if want be. “If not,” he mentioned, “then the fight will be at 147. The contract states that it has to go at 47 since neither I or Errol notified each other stating that we can’t make the weight.”
With that being mentioned, it’s laborious to think about Spence coming again to defeat Crawford at any weight, so dominant was Crawford of their preliminary struggle. While there’s no query, regardless of what some now take pleasure in 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. Of course, boxing being boxing, one by no means is aware of how the second Crawford-Spence struggle may play out. In 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 struggle, or some other that problem that’s put in his means.
