Why Did People Think Errol Spence Was Good?

Same. never passed the eye test for me. always knew crawford would whoop him, and I legit believe Pac would have the nod over him also if the fight went through

 

I do think Spence was very good, Just not as great as people thought. Your point about Inoue is fantastic. The fact that he’s offensive minded with a great defense is deadly. It’s very difficult to find those kind of boxers.

 

I always thought he was overrated too. I didn't even know who he was for quite some time. But let's be honest. Most boxers are overrated hype jobs anyway.

 

Anyone who says that Spence was not good is freaking ******ed. Now, that being said, Spence was grossly overhyped by a very vocal fan base, who viewed him as an ATG talent... and I want to call them ultra ******s for it.

Spence was a solid B tier modern welterweight. He was clearly better than someone like Danny Garcia, but still at the same level as Shawn Porter.
And while Spence did beat Brook, IMO they could be splitting fights easily if they fought again and again.

Spence was a good body puncher with a decent southpaw jab. And bad boxers don´t steamroll someone like Lamont Peterson.

 

Same question applies to Canelo. Basic plodding boxers are not special they will always come undone by a man who can move and box. Crawford was fantastic but he still has a thin resume and him slapping roidnelo around the ring saved his career.

The biggest problem in today's boxing is the politics out of the ring. They all time waste so much jockeying for position or looking for fairly big advantages with weight cuts or timings that they just never end up fighting each other. It's a joke. Spence Crawford should have happend years before it did and no doubt Crawford had a part to play on that also. Pacwuia Mayweather years too late. Fury AJ tricky one because AJ found a way to get chinned over every other fight. The list goes on.

 

First off, he was good. Not great but good. It takes guts to travel to lion’s den and snatch Brook’s belt. Regardless of what happened to Brook in his previous fight, that’s something turds like Gervonta or Ryan Garcia would never do.

But yes, he was overhyped. He was the best of a mediocre bunch that were sold as elites thanks to good marketing, gullible PBC nuthuggers and blatant ducking of Crawford for half a decade.

 

Because he was. Just because he wasn't some ATG once in a generation talent doesn't mean he wasn't good.

 

He would've taken Juna Manuel Marquez apart.

Supposed boxing fans who "coincidentally" hate anyone who was associated with PBC are now having their "aha" moment because a future HOFer lost a relatively close decision to a contender in the wrong weightclass after a three year layoff at age 36.

 

I think Spence was a solid fighter good enough to unify titles and be a top welterweight for a period

The knock against him is the two best fighters of his time were Thurman and Crawford and he did not beat them. In his defense Thurman appeared to want no part of it. Spence tried to face the faded Pacquiao who still was at a high level and big fight but that fell through.

Not that struggling with Shawn Porter is a knock but I felt Thurman beat Porter more handily. I remember being at bar in Queens arguing with a Spence fan during the Porter fight pointing out **** and telling him going in it was going to be a hard fight

I think Spence had a pretty good career, I know people will put asterisks on stuff but he has wins over Algieri, Brook, Porter, the two Garcia's, Ugas, Petersen with two of those wins being after the car crash

My biggest knock is really how badly he was destroyed by Crawford. There is no shame losing to Bud but normally when two best of a generation fighters clash its competitive. I'm thinking Leonard-Hearns, Mosely-De La Hoya, etc. Spence was never in that fight and never beat another fighter that I would call great. But he did beat a lot of very good fighters