Via Jim Calfa: Yordenis Ugas says he wants to take on 147-lb WBO champion Terence Crawford for the undisputed weightlifting title if he beats IBF/WBC champion Errol Spence Jr in their bout in early 2022.
Unlike Spence, 31, talented Cuban Ugas WANTS takes on undefeated Crawford (38-0.29 KOs) for the undisputed 147 lb championship in 2022, and that’s where he’s going. will join if he beats what’s left of ‘Truth.’
With Spence (27-0, 21 KOs) suffering an eye injury and out of action for nearly a year and a half, welterweight WBA champion Ugas (27-4, 12 KOs) can spare Errol a return to the ring. If Spence isn’t 100% what he used to be, he’ll have a long night against Ugas.
Will Spence be 100% for Ugas?
Spence was passed squeezing in the past two years, involved in a terrible car accident in 2019, retinal injury to the eye and long-term absence from work.
On top of that, there are rumors of Spence being addicted to alcohol and it’s unclear how that will affect his performance against Ugas.
If Spence hadn’t lived the life of a professional athlete in the past two years, he would have been discovered by Ugas.
Physically, Spence looks like he’s aged in the past two years since his fight with Shawn Porter in September 2019. It’s unclear how much of it was from the car crash and his difficult life.
Spence will be side A in this fight, which means that if any innings are close to or far away, you have to assume the umpires will give them to him and not Ugas.
It can be said that unless Ugas explicitly wins rounds, Spence will be awarded them based on his popularity.
Errol is essential to the sport of boxing, as he is a genuine PPV star and easily became the biggest star in the 147 lb division as Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. retired.
Yordenis defends Spence
For Ugas to beat the biggest star in the welterweight division, it will take an exceptional performance and a lot of luck.
In 2018, when I won the IBF elimination, I said if #SpenceCrawford fight, I put aside, I know this fight must have happened. Now the winner in this #SpenceUgas with 3belts can fight for the undisputed. If you are not satisfied, then what you want is to keep complaining.
– Yordenis Ugas (@YordenisUgas) December 22, 2021
Spence may have to endure more than he can chew in the face of Ugas in his first fight back after a long 14 to 15 month hiatus and perhaps better pre-adjust.
We know that Spence said he doesn’t believe in throttling, but he probably regrets not making an exception in this case.
Spence didn’t look good in his last bout against Danny Garcia in December 2020, and now he’s about to take a long break and face an even better boxer in Ugas. .
