Being as crossovers from kickboxing are en vogue right now... This content is protected This content is protected I haven't really followed his transition into boxing, although I remember him being a serious force in KB. Was a world class player for a LONG time, and might be in the conversation for the Surinamese p4p GOAT fighter, period (which is saying a mouthful)
For some reason I would really like to see him in with Ismaikel Pérez. Same age, build and size...even their styles are similar (at least from what I recall of Spong if you subtract the kicks from his striking arsenal)...plus they're both Caribbean born guys that based themselves in a European country (Spong being Surinamese-Dutch and Pérez Cuban-Irish) who at one time were quite hyped but whose momentum in their primes kept getting derailed before they could make good on all the promise.
Just iced Santander Silgado in the first round tonight on a non-televised card in Florida. Silgado has been stopped 4x already and this makes practically thrice in a row being KO1ed specifically (the streak broken up by Silgado winning a confidence-booster against 0-10 Daniel Noguiera in between the Kudryashov and Głowacki blitzkriegs) and at 33 years old as a damaged goods glass cannon (who used to rely on rapidly fading quickness & slick reflexes) isn't quite as commendable a scalp as he was for, say, Denis Lebedev six years ago... but this was still a pretty big relative step up in class for Spong, who did what he needed to do. So onward and upward, I guess.
