‘Now the real fight happens’: Terence Crawford challenges Errol Spence Jr to an undisputed welterweight bout and warns rival ‘keep my belts warm’ after The Truth’s WBA title victory over Yordenis Ugas
- Terence Crawford is set to take on American Errol Spence Jr in a ‘super-fight’
- Spence Jr defeated Cuban Yordenis Ugas in the early hours of Sunday morning
- The 32-year-old beat Ugas but punctured his eye, with a doctor ending the fight
Terence Crawford is set to go-head-to-head in an undisputed super-fight against Errol Spence Jr.
Spence got the better of fighter Yordenis Ugas on Saturday in a welterweight title bout at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in a Premier Boxing Champions event.
The American, 32, picked apart Ugas before a doctor ruled the Cuban, struggling with a swollen eye, could not continue.
American fighter Errol Spence Jr, 32, got the better of Cuban star Yordenis Ugas on Saturday
Terence Crawford is ready for a super-fight with Spence JR after he became a free agent
The Texan has now added the WBA title to the WBC and IBF belts he brought into the fight.
Afterwards Spence called out Crawford, whose WBO title is the only thing standing in Spence’s way of undisputed supremacy.
Responding on Twitter, Crawford posted: ‘Congratulations great fight now the real fight happens.’
‘No more talk no more side of the street let’s go. Keep my belts warm I’ll be coming to grab em later this year.’
Promotional and network alliances have previously put barriers in the way of Spence being able to battle it out with another fellow American.
Crawford is likely to take on fellow countryman Spence JR in the coming months it seems
Crawford, however, became a free agent in November 2021, and said he’d move on from Top Rank.
A fight with Spence could now happen, and the later is relishing the opportunity.
‘Everybody knows who I want next, I want Terence Crawford next.
‘That’s the fight that I want, that’s the fight that everybody else wants and like I said, I’m going to get these straps.
‘I’m going to go over there and take his s*** too. Terence, I’m coming for that motherf***ing belt.’