Unified welterweight world champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. defeated two-division champion Danny “Swift” Garcia by unanimous decision Saturday night in the main event of a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
“The moment is surreal,” said Spence. “Coming back from the accident, I feel like I looked pretty good tonight. All training camp I felt good. I told people I didn’t want a tune-up fight. I proved to everyone that I’m the best 147-pound fighter in the world.”
Spence (27-0, 21 KOs) retained his WBC and IBF titles with an impressive performance in his hometown that saw him own a 187 to 117 advantage in punches landed, according to CompuBox. Spence controlled much of the action with his jab, landing 84 of them to slowly damage the left eye of his opponent.
“His jab was rangy and threw my timing off a bit,” said Garcia. “That was the key to the fight. Everything else I feel like I adapted to. The jab was the only thing that was better than expected.”
Garcia (36-3, 21 KOs), known as a supreme counter puncher, picked his spots against the unrelenting attack from Spence, having occasional success with his counter right hook and body shots. However, Spence was the more accurate fighter, connecting on 26% of his shots to 17% for Garcia.
“Danny Garcia pushed me to the limit, especially in training camp,” said Spence. “I’ve watched him fight since he was an amateur. I knew he was a great champion and I had to be 100% ready.”
“I was trying to be more active,” said Garcia. “He did a good job taking away what I wanted to do. Everyone is looking for my left hook, so I thought my right hand could be the difference. I had some success going to the body with it. When two champions fight, one guy is going to be better on the night.”
The two welterweight elites continued to fight hard and throw big punches to the last bell, but it was Spence out landing Garcia in each of the last six rounds. After 12 rounds, the judges scored the fight 117-111 and 116-112 twice, all for Spence.
“I had a little bit of ring rust, but I was in such great shape and took everything seriously in training so that I would not be discouraged by that,” said Spence. “I worked my jab and used my angles because that was my best move.
“It’s been a long year and a half, so I’m going to wind down for a week or two, then get back on it. I proved that I’m back and I’m here to stay.”
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20 Comments
Mi
Respect the IRON chin of danny!! I wish he had a coach beside his father!
Spence beat both boxers that defeated gayford…Danny Garcia and Ugas
Prime Manny will smoke these two
This fight is so funny in the last seconds of the 12 round Danny wanna fight hahahah now he is trying to punch, what I’m trying to say when you move and you bussy with spence that is spence weak spot, he always back up but when you pick your shots and stand spence wil whoop your ass
Garcia is a warrior
0:48
Was up
Who is here to check if spence really that good after he got easily demolished by Crawford?
If that was Crawford before he could land that hook he would have been hit already by a counter
I know crawford is way too good compared to garcia but you can see the difference in the movements of spence here. During the crawford bout, he looked too damn weak.
7:31 aún no había dicho quien ganó y el referí ya le había levantado la mano de Spence 😂
A partir de ce combat que j'ai commencé à le trouver lent, tout juste après l'accident
Bud is good
This fight prove Spence could not beat bud
Prime Spence VS Prime Pacquiao? PAC will Smoked Spence. he wont be able to handle PACs Speed and movement not to mention the Volume of hard punches
Señores pero es increíble García no pelea ni adentro ni afuera que decepción
Looked like García was afraid of getting inside Spence's guard. When he did, he caused some damage. Too bad. You got to respect García anyway, the guy is so aware of his own assets, he's got a lot of heart, and I always liked his style, sort of peek-a-boo. Solid boxer and a real class act. Gosh, now I'm making it sound like a love song, but I really like this fighter. Does it show? 😉
Odio cuando los boxeadores ya saben que están totalmente perdidos entonces quieren atacar para hacer el ridículo..en mi opinión danny gracias es mucho mejor que espence pero le tuvo miedo al moreno oh le pagaron para que no atacara a espence
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