Errol Spence Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is currently a unified welterweight world champion. He has held the IBF title since 2017 and the WBC title since 2019. He represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, where he reached the quarter-finals.
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Errol Spence Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is currently a unified welterweight world champion. He has held the IBF title since 2017 and the WBC title since 2019. As an amateur, he won three consecutive United States national championships. He represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, where he reached the quarter-finals. In 2015, Spence was named Prospect of the Year by ESPN. As of December 2020, he is ranked as the world’s third best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec, fifth by The Ring magazine, and ninth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Spence has a knockout-to-win ratio of 77. 8%. He has won all of his 10 professional fights, 8 of them by way of knockout. He made his Showtime television debut on 27 June 2014 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas in a 10-round fight against Ronald Cruz. On 11 April 2015, he defeated Samuel Vargas by TKO in Round 4 of 10 in a Premier Boxing Champions fight card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, bringing his record to 16-0. On 10 March 2016, it was announced that Spence would fight former light welterweights titlist Chris Algieri at the Barclays Center on 16 April. This was Spence’s seventh straight straight knockout. For the fight, he earned 225,000 USD, whilst Algieri earned 225,.000 USD,. The referee waived the count and referee Benjy Esteves waived the stoppage count.
In front of a crowd of 7,628 crowd, his biggest fight to date was his pro-Algieri, his 7th straight knockout in front of the Brooklyn crowd. He was originally scheduled to fight Roberto García, but García backed out of the fight three days before the card due to weight issues. In December 2012, he knocked out Richard Andrews at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California, which was part of undercard for Amir Khan’s comeback fight against Carlos Molina. On 13 December 2014, he beat Javier Castro by T KO in the 5th round at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Las Vegas. In October 2015 he defeated Alejandro Barrera via 5th-round TKO. On May 16, he was announced to feature on the undercard of Shawn Porter vs. Adrien Broner on June 20 at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena. He defeated Phil Lo Greco via 3rd-round tKO. He next fought on theUndercard of Stevenson-Karpency against Chris van Heerden at the Ricoh Coliseum. He won six inside the distance in all of them, winning six inside of the distance. He lost in the quarter finals of the 2012 London Olympics to Andrey Zamkovoy and turned professional shortly afterwards. He ended his amateur career with a record of 135-12. He fought eight times in 2013, being victorious in all. The fight was an IBF eliminator for the number 2 spot in their welterwood contender rankings.
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