{"id":35671,"date":"2022-06-03T22:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/errol-spence-jr-terence-crawford-closing-in-on-deal-for-an-undisputed-welterweight-championship-fight-in-october\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T22:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T22:37:02","slug":"errol-spence-jr-terence-crawford-closing-in-on-deal-for-an-undisputed-welterweight-championship-fight-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/errol-spence-jr-terence-crawford-closing-in-on-deal-for-an-undisputed-welterweight-championship-fight-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Jr., Terence Crawford closing in on deal for an undisputed welterweight championship fight in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-06-03T19:15:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">3:15 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Mike Coppinger<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>At long last, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford are on the verge of a summit meeting at 147 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Spence, who holds three welterweight titles, and Crawford, owner of one 147-pound belt, are closing in on a deal for an October fight in Las Vegas for the undisputed welterweight championship, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The boxers are still in negotiations and there is no agreement yet for the fight, which would be presented by PBC on pay-per-view, sources said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m free to do whatever I want,&#8221; Crawford, 34, told ESPN in late April.  &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing standing in the way from us fighting. There&#8217;s no promotion company that&#8217;s blocking it, there&#8217;s no wrong side of the street, there&#8217;s no nothing. Let&#8217;s see who the best welterweight in the world is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crawford, ESPN&#8217;s No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer, parted ways with his longtime promoter, Top Rank, after a 10th-round TKO of Shawn Porter in November.  PBC, with which Spence is aligned, rarely does business with other promoters.  Now that Crawford is a free agent, the path is clear to make the superfight.<\/p>\n<p>The sport&#8217;s inability to deliver the fight has been a source of frustration among fans for years.  But Crawford believes the matchup is &#8220;definitely &#8230; bigger now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spence, ESPN&#8217;s No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer, returned from surgery to repair a detached retina to score a 10th-round TKO of Yordenis Ugas in April.  The 32-year-old from Desoto, Texas, was set to fight the legendary Manny Pacquiao in August but withdrew from the bout when it was discovered that he required immediate surgery.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2021%2F1117%2Fr938826_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2021%2F1117%2Fr938826_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2021%2F1117%2Fr938826_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2021%2F1117%2Fr938826_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Terence Crawford says he&#8217;s eager to see &#8220;who the best welterweight in the world is.&#8221; <cite>Mikey Williams \/ Top Rank Inc via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It was the second major setback of Spence&#8217;s career after an October 2019 car crash hospitalized him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now everybody&#8217;s saying that Errol&#8217;s back and he&#8217;s 100% ready. So now is the perfect time for me and him to fight,&#8221; said Crawford, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska.  &#8220;He called me out, so it ain&#8217;t no backing up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Said Spence in April: &#8220;I want Terence Crawford; that&#8217;s the fight that I want. That&#8217;s the fight everybody else wants. &#8230; Terence, I&#8217;m coming for that belt!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN At long last, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford are on the verge of a summit meeting at 147 pounds. Spence, who holds three welterweight titles, and Crawford, owner of one 147-pound belt, are closing in on a deal for an October fight in Las Vegas for the undisputed welterweight &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/errol-spence-jr-terence-crawford-closing-in-on-deal-for-an-undisputed-welterweight-championship-fight-in-october\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Errol Spence Jr., Terence Crawford closing in on deal for an undisputed welterweight championship fight in October<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[3700,16976,146,16975,16977],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2017\/0527\/r213314_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}