Errol Spence Has No Doubt Who Wins A Prime Floyd Mayweather vs Terence Crawford Fight

Errol Spence Jr is one of few men to have shared a ring with both Floyd Mayweather Jr and Terence Crawford.

Mayweather and Crawford are both considered the best of their generation and happened to compete at the same weight – welterweight.

Spence, although he never faced Mayweather in a pro fight, sparred with ‘TBE’ during his run at 147 and the catchweight victory over Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, with onlookers describing the gym session as a fight and nothing less.

The former 147lb unified champion’s last fight was over a year ago when he was handed his first career defeat in devastating fashion by Crawford. It was billed as a 50/50 contest before the first bell, but ‘Bud’ dominated from the get go and stopped Spence in the ninth round after three knockdowns.

Despite being outclassed by Crawford that night, when asked by Fight Hype who was the better fighter, Spence said there was a ‘big difference’ with Mayweather potentially being the best of all time.

“It’s a big difference. Floyd is just different. I feel like he’s the best fighter… I don’t know about all time, he might be the best fighter of all time and if not he’s close. Two or three, not by far.

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There’s different things that Floyd does. He was a lot older when I sparred him and there are just certain things he does that are real tricky. We’d get in the clinch and he was like squeezing my nose so I couldn’t breathe and stuff like that. Veteran, all-time type stuff. Mentally, by far I feel like he’s the best.”

Spence himself is tipped to make his return at the end of the year against WBC super-welterweight champion Sebastian Fundora.