After five years of debating who is the best welterweight boxer in the world, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford are excited to finally leave the talking behind as they set to take action in Saturday’s first four-belt undisputed title fight in 147-pound history.
But for as sick as both fighters are of being asked about each other, which was evident in Thursday’s saucy final press conference in Las Vegas, the pair of unbeaten champions have vowed they will produce the kind of fight inside T-Mobile Arena this weekend (Showtime PPV, 8 p.m. ET) that will have people talking for many years to come.
In the biggest fight in boxing since Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao squared off in 2015 following their own five-year soap opera build, Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) and Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) bring old-school mentalities into a fight that has left those who experienced firsthand prior welterweight unification classics like Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns (1981) and Felix Trinidad-Oscar De La Hoya (1999) expecting a return feeling of that nostalgic, big-fight feel.
Even better, both fighters have promised to go through one another in order to get their hand raised, which has left even boxing’s cynical crossover audience, the same who still aren’t over paying $100 on pay-per-view for Mayweather-Pacquiao only to receive a defensive and technical superfight, expecting nothing but fireworks.
