Errol Spence vs. 1977 welterweights?

He loses to that Pipino Cuevas. He and Palomino would be a good fight.

 

It's funny that you bring this up because as I was watching it the other night - although it was a nice win - I didn't think he looked particularly strong on the inside and said to myself, "Carlos Palomino would eat him up on the inside." Having said that, he is still a work in progress and will only get better. I think Palomino, Cuevas and Muniz would be a bit too much for him (right now) and I think Ranzany and Weston would also get past him. He is on a par with Shields and would beat Floyd Sr. But again, I'm really never been one to jump too quick on a bandwagon (I didn't recognize DeLaHoya as anything special until he made it to jr welter), so let's give him a bit of time. A year from now I'd like to revisit this question when (hopefully) he's had a couple of more scalps under his belt.

 

Premature at this point.

 

Spence still has a lot of minor flaws to correct as of today. The last thing he would need is to be "wide open" on the inside, against the prime Cuevas left hook.

 

I was very impressed with Spence last night. Wish we would be talking about him now with a couple of fights in the book, but it is what it is. He stated he wants to fight 3 times this year. Well, that's a move in the right direction. I'm still not impressed with his inside work and I believe he gets hit too much (although he was in with a good opponent last night who knew how to counter), but his combos are really starting to sizzle and never stopped throwing for as long as the fight lasted. His conditioning is excellent. I'm really enjoying this upward trajectory and now see him past Curry and Ranzany on that top ten. Let's revisit this again after his next fight or two and see if we can pick off another fighter or two.

 

Premature

From what we are seeing he has greatness attributes and in a few more fights against the top competition we will know better.

 

Spence could go on to be a great, or he could go on to be a notch on Thurmans resume.

Too early to call.

 

Good analysis.

 

I don't think he could have made 147 in the 70's. Could he?

 

Spence would have been a middleweight back in the 70s with same day weigh ins.

Most modern day champions are actually a couple of divisions bigger than fighters from the same day weigh in era.

Hagler could make 147 these days.