Boxing fans: What do you guys think about Errol Spence

I generally keep up with everything boxing. I had never heard of this guy. Just looked him up - only 5 fights.

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Olympics last year and a lot of buzz about his sparring sessions this year with Mayweather.

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Interesting. That can sometimes speak volumes.

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Willie Pastrano was trained by Angelo Dundee, who was based in Louisville. In 1958 this kid name Cassius Clay calls up Dundee and wants to see if Pastrano will spar with him. Clay was just 16 years old but had already won several golden gloves competitions and would tell anybody who would listen that he was gonna win the olympics in 1960 (he did). Clay was persistent and eventually Dundee let him come by and do some work with Pastrano, who at this point was an established light heavyweight and a top contender for the title.

Clay handled him in sparring.

Dundee kept shouting at Pastrano to stop messing around. Afterwards he asks him if he was tired or hurt. Pastrano tells responds: no, that kid is a good looking fighter.

Dundee let Clay stick around the gym.


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Larry Holmes was Ali's sparring partner for his fight against Foreman (and maybe others...not sure) in Zaire in '74. Norman Mailer, who wrote a book about that fight (called "The Fight"), says that Holmes very much held his own during sparring and was sometimes even handling him.

Just pulled up a few clips.

1. Looks like a promising fighter.
2. Excellent jab
2a. Super quick with it
2b. Very active with it
2c. Can hook off it.
3. Maybe doesn't throw the straight left as much as he could. He appears to be able to throw it with power.
4. Quick feet
5. But doesn't move just for the sake of it.


Will keep an eye out for him.

Yeah that's what's being said even though Spence said in an interview it wasnt true. Just really impressed with this kid, he slipped a punch and landed one of the most beautiful left uppercuts to the body, that I have ever seen, in his last fight. Actually made me jump out my seat watching the slo-mo replay.