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Studious back to “Old School” Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. and Terence “Bud” Crawford, two of the finest pound-for-pound fighters in their class, were face to face, cheek to jowl and hair`s breadth close, prior to their fizzing coronation match, for the undisputed welterweight championship, on Saturday, July 29 at the T-Mobile Arena from Las Vegas.
Spence is the unified WBC, IBF and WBA welterweight world champion, while Crawford holds the WBO 147-pound world championship.
This stupendous, showcase showdown between undefeated, unrelenting, uncompromising, undoubted stars, will become the first undisputed welterweight world champion in the four-belt era.
Spence vs. Crawford joins Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns, Pernell Whitaker v. Julio Cesar Chavez and Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, as a generational clash of two maestro megastars, whose dynamic and aggressive styles will produce a chiller thriller!
Both fighters were intensely, endearingly, almost touchingly close, during the official announcement of the fight, sincerely promising each other a brash brush stroke canvass, which will meet, surpass and certainly exceed the most stringent Great Expectations. Complementing oils and water on a palate of talent.
Brimming with brimstone confidence and refreshingly erudite plus curtailingly curt, each had some poignant, picquet plus exquisitely chosen sticks and stones words for the other:
“This is the biggest fight in boxing right now,” bespectacled Spence loquaciously mused. “It’s a legendary fight. It’s an old school fight. It’s like the fights my dad used to tell me about. It’s the best fighting the best.
“Terence hasn’t fought anyone. Even Shawn Porter said he didn’t train like he should. Kell Brook was already broken. I broke Kell Brook’s other eye.
“Terence is a great fighter but I’m going to break him mentally and physically. I’m going to be victorious.”
“This is definitely a legacy fight and a fight that should be talked about everywhere,” Crawford said. “This is an old school kind of fight. All the greats have fought each other and that’s what we’re doing for this era.
“You’re going to witness greatness. We measure greatness by eras. July 29, I’m going to show everyone why this era is the Terence Crawford era.
“A victory proves that I am the best fighter of that time. No man has ever won undisputedly in two weight classes. That will cement me as the best fighter of this era,” Crawford waxed lyrical.
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