Errol Spence Jr. Is Befuddled By Slick Southpaws and Speed-A Harbinger Of Things To Come?

How many fast awkward slick fighters has he faced as a pro? All I've seen him face is punching bags so far.

 

Lol.... he probably doesn't know how to deal with every style as a pro either.

 

Ok....and.... I'm trying to rein people in a little bit. The hype level over the last two days is reaching absolutely Absurd levels. The kid is good but he's no ATG in the making yet, quite frankly what's he's done is Antoine Douglas level, Antoine's wins over LaManna and Szili were pretty damn impressive and a lot of people were crowning him the American hope at MW, and what happened? He got the hell beaten out of him against the first guy who could take his punch and give one.

Lo Greco, Algieri and Van Heerden are feather fists who offered him no resistance, he did what he was supposed to do, everybody buys the hype....he hasn't fought a puncher yet and he hasn't fought a technical boxer who can test his true skill level in the least. I almost find it insulting the fact that people are saying he could beat Mayweather and Canelo based on his wins to date, its mind numbing.

 

And that's the point of this thread. To cool it with the hype, every fighter has a style or styles that give them issues, in case people weren't aware of that, I figured I'd let them know Spence might have a few that give him problems too.

Algieri is fairly slick when he wants to be, but the Algieri that fought Spence was the guy who thought he was a KO artist that fought Bone and Khan, and that style isn't very slick.

 

Spence has the luxury of being a relentless pressure fighter because he's yet to face someone who can time him and counter him effectively with the power to keep him at bay, Kell Brook is very slick, deceptively so, and his ability to accurately counter aggressive fighters is consistently underrated on this site, Brook would probably do a number on Spence at this point. Thurman is far slicker than he's given credit for as well, he's also very fragile so Spence might have his number, but Thurman whose power may be slightly overrated, its still impressive enough to keep guys with iron chins like Guerrero at bay and honest, Spence wouldn't just be able to walk him down authoritatively.

We've also yet to see how Spence would deal with true pressure from a guy like Porter, who would swarm him from bell to bell, would he crumble like so many fighters before him? Maybe Porter could Khurtsidze him. As far as Canelo's defense goes most fighters not named Mayweather and Lara especially ones that pressured him have a really hard to landing on Canelo clean, its better than most seem to think it is. He slips shot very well, Cotto had a really hard time landing clean on him.

And yeah there was actually a thread saying Mayweather should stay retired because Spence would stop him yesterday.