LAS VEGAS — Four of the Top 10 boxers in the world — Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jr., Naoya Inoue and Stephen Fulton — will be in action this week. In a normal week in the 21st century, that would mean the boxers were competing in four separate bouts.
That’s not the case this week, though, luckily for boxing fans who for far too long have been overlooked, taken for granted and spoonfed scraps. The week begins Tuesday with Inoue and Fulton, undefeated fighters with a long history of success, meeting in Tokyo for Fulton’s unified super bantamweight belts.
They finally did on May 2, 2015, in an extraordinary event that set a record for pay-per-view sales by generating more than $600 million in revenue. In 2023 dollars, that would be $770 million. The traditional powers-that-be couldn’t get the fight made. So Crawford picked up the phone and spoke directly to Spence. They came to an agreement because they each wanted to fight the other.
In the last 50 years, there were welterweight fights such as Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran, Leonard versus Thomas Hearns, Leonard against Wilfred Benitez, Mayweather versus Pacquiao, Pernell Whitaker against Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., Whitaker against Oscar De La Hoya, De La Hoya against Shane Mosley, Mayweather facing Miguel Cotto and Cotto taking on Pacquiao.
“There’s no doubt that both of these guys are going to raise their games to a whole other level,” Derrick James, Spence’s trainer, told Yahoo Sports. “They’ll be different fighters, I believe, by facing each other. To win, you can’t be like you were before, because these guys are facing an entirely different type of opponent. That’s true for Errol and it’s true for Crawford, as well. And so I think it’s going to be a spectacular fight because of that.
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