Crawford, who was not at ringside, live-tweeted Saturday’s foremost occasion and ended his social media session with some trash speak geared toward constructing anticipation for a struggle boxing followers have lengthy needed.
“Maintain my belts heat,” Crawford tweeted at Spence. “I’m coming to seize ’em later this 12 months.”
From a purely aggressive standpoint, a matchup of Spence and Crawford, extensively thought of the welterweight division’s two greatest fighters, has lengthy made sense. However skilled boxing can be a enterprise, which has difficult pairing the 2 fighters. Spence is aligned with Premier Boxing Champions, whereas Crawford, till November, was signed with High Rank, a rival promotional outfit.
However now Crawford is a free agent, and Spence’s inventory is rising after his emphatic victory. Spence, who’s 28-0, won’t benefit from the mainstream fame of a few of his welterweight predecessors, like Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao, however he sells pay-per-views and tickets — 39,946 spectators attended Saturday’s card.
“Once we take a look at the historical past with Errol Spence, he’s fairly reliably at the least 300,000 buys,” Stephen Espinoza, the president of Showtime Sports activities, the pay-per-view associate for Saturday’s card, mentioned in an interview earlier than the struggle. “He’s producing a gross of at the least $20 million each day trip, simply in pay-per-view income. That’s an elite determine.”
Spence additionally delivers motion.
Early of their bout, Ugás scored with jabs and proper fingers to the physique, disrupting Spence’s advances and countering his huge punches. However as rounds handed, Spence discovered his rhythm and elevated his output, denying Ugás clear probabilities to counter. The place Ugás landed punches from midrange, Spence labored from the skin in, prodding along with his proper jab till he may transfer shut sufficient to tear punches to Ugás’s physique and head.
In Spherical 6, Ugás created sufficient house to land that heavy proper hand. He believed, momentarily, that he had turned the struggle.
“I assumed I had an opportunity there,” Ugás mentioned within the ring after the bout. “However he’s an incredible fighter. He recovered.”
