“This Is Definitely An Old School Fight.” Errol Spence And Terence Crawford Exude Confidence In First Press Conference

By: Sean Crose

“There might be greatness July twenty ninth that you simply guys will witness,” WBO welterweight titlist Terence Crawford mentioned at a Los Angeles press convention Tuesday to advertise his upcoming superbout with WBC, WBA, and IBF titlist Errol Spence. “We measure greatness by eras,” Crawford continued. “We had the Sugar Ray Robinson period, we had the Ali period, the Marvin Hagler’s, the Tommy Hearn’s, we even had the Floyd Mayweather period, however July twenty ninth I’m going to point out each one in every of you why that is the Terence Crawford period.”

“He calls himself the large fish,” Crawford concluded, referencing Spence, “however what you do when the fish will get took out the water? He suffocates.”

Spence, who would possibly really be extra easygoing than the usually laid again Crawford, took to the mic subsequent. “That is the most important struggle in boxing proper now,” he mentioned. “This can be a legendary struggle. That is undoubtedly an old-fashioned struggle. That is the struggle that my dad used to speak to me about, and the older folks inform me about, the place you had sugar Sugar Ray Leonard versus Tommy Hearns, you had Duran and all them, you had De La Hoya-Trinidad combating, you had the very best combating the very best. And eventually, we’re at this level the place me and Terence Crawford needed to get on the telephone and discuss it, and now it’s lastly taking place.”

Spence not solely sees the struggle with Crawford being for welterweight dominance. He made it clear Tuesday he feels the winner would be the clear pound for pound finest in all boxing. “It’s going to show not solely the very best welterweight on the earth,” he mentioned, “its going to show who the very best fighter on the earth is. You realize my mentality. It’s to win. Its to go all out and provides it every part. His mentality is identical factor. So I would like everybody to tune in July twenty ninth. Come to the struggle, we’re going to have a crawfish bowl…there’s going to be sufficient for everyone, I promise you that.”

Followers have lengthy been ready for Spence and Crawford to sq. off within the ring. Now that the struggle has lastly been made, the reply as to who’s the higher fighter will lastly be answered in only a matter of weeks. That is certainly an enormous match – two males, undefeated and lauded, battling for supremacy in one of many sport’s hottest and historic divisions.