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EPISODE: Episode 1
Get ready for one of the most significant fights in modern boxing history with The Scorecard hosted by Cedric Benn. In this episode, we breakdown and predict the highly-anticipated, undisputed welterweight showdown between Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford, arguably the two top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport. This bout has been years in the making, and we’re here to set the stage for this epic collision.
We also provide a sneak peek into the undercard featuring Isaac Cruz vs Giovanni Cabrera and Nonito Donaire vs Alexandro Santiago. Tune in for the best pre-fight analysis and join the conversation.
Remember to like, share, subscribe and comment your predictions for this historical fight! Let’s see who comes out on top – Spence Jr. or Crawford?
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[, Music, ] foreign welcome back to the scorecard the boxing scorecard.
The special prediction show for the biggest match in uh.
Quite a few years, big welterweight Showdown within the two top first ballot Hall of Fame welterweights in Terence Bud, Crawford and Earl Spence Jr um.
All right, let’s get right into it, I’ll give you the prediction, my official prediction and then we’ll get the breakdown.
So my official prediction for this match is unanimous decision by Earl, Spence Jr shout out to my boy, Mike Carter number one bud Crawford fan I apologize.
I I don’t even like saying that myself, I’m going for both guys.
I don’t I like both guys equally, so I’m not going for for either guy um, but we’ll give you my uh, my official breakdown.
So, let’s, let’s rewind this the past couple of years, so I said from the beginning.
I was picking Earl Spence years ago for the simple fact that when this, when you got two two boxers that are equal in skill level, usually the person that’s just bigger.
Is you know, that’s the reason why there’s weight classes right? You can have the same skill level, but if someone’s just bigger than you that’s the advantage that they have their their punches are gon na have more.
In effect on you, and – and you know, their punches are not gon na have as much effect on you and your punches are gon na have more of an effect on them.
Um, that’s what the advantage, if you’re the skill level’s the same but you’re the bigger person.
So that’s why I was saying you know um.
I was picking Earl Spence, because Crawford started started out at a lower level where parents carpet start at well.
We know Spence started out.
His first match was he started.
Spence has been at welterweight this whole time.
His whole career he’s been at welterweight this whole career and Terence Crawford.
Let’S check to see where he started at Terence Crawford started at 138 pounds so just under um the weight class right underneath that 140.
I thought it was 135, but it was actually 140, so one weight class underneath, but in in the smaller weight classes, that that is a big difference.
Those couple pounds make a difference: big difference in the smaller weight classes, both guys coming up have highlight knockouts on their on their records.
Terence Crawford 39 wins 30 uh, 30 knockouts, Earl, Spence, Jr 28 wins how many knockouts was he uh 22 knockouts.
So both these guys have uh highlight knockout reels on their resumes um.
You can say that Earl, Spence, um Earl Spence has a slightly better resume at at uh at welterweight, from the guys that he fought um, Terence Crawford has looked, but then again.
This is where things even out Earl Spence has been welfare.
This whole time looked very good.
Crawford only had a couple fights at welterweight, but he’s done some things that Earl Spence has never done like stopping Sean Porter.
Nobody has stopped Sean Porter and I don’t care if it was at the end of his career like Sean Paul.
Didn’T just give up his Corner through.
Is that through the towel, Sean Porter would have continued fighting.
You know if his Corner didn’t throw in the towel.
He got dropped, he still could have continued, but just you know we all know.
Terence Crawford is, is a killer, so it probably wouldn’t have been good for him, but he was you know.
Terence Crawford is the first person to stop Sean Porter um, coming up from a smaller weight class, so the only person and Sean Porter, even as the amateur, was heavier than that um.
So this goes to show you the level that Terence is on what else we got.
What else we got.
There was some oh yeah, my bad a couple of years.
That’S why I was going with Earl, Spence Jr.
Just because he’s simply bigger the skill level was the same, but he’s simply bigger.
The other reason why I was going with Earl is because I’ve seen we’ve all seen Terence Crawford get hurt by smaller guys.
As I see the highlights of the Gamboa fight here when he fought your your kiss, your Adonis Gamboa um when gambo was still good, that was a close fight and Terence Crawford that fight right.
There was the most hurt that Terence Crawford has been in his whole career.
Now, of course, people are gon na say.
Well, look what happened after that.
He went out and stopped him.
Yes, he did yes, he did but my whole.
My whole point of saying that is that Crawford got hurt by a guy that was much smaller than him and, and that was oh yeah.
Let’S double check that, because that was definitely not at 147 and and um and Gamboa moved up.
I’M pretty sure for that fight.
As I look it up real quick.
Where are we at? Where are we at yeah gamble? Move up for that fight? He was at yeah 135, get once almost a gamble away for that anyways Gamboa started his career 124 pounds.
Okay, so skill level again this is the skill level.
Was there that’s how he hurt, that’s how he hurts uh um Crawford.
The skill level was definitely there, but the power was not, and so that’s what kind of concerned me you know Terence Crawford got hurt by a guy that started at 125 pounds.
So that’s what I was like you know: Spencer’s gon na get him he’s just bigger.
That’S you know the naturally bigger guy is going to get the nicely smaller guy and the skills are the same.
However, a couple of months ago, I heard something that made me change my mind about that.
Listening to Derek James Earl, Spence’s coach, who I believe is the number one coach in the sport of boxing today um.
He was talking about the oogous fight um when, when Spence bought August and when ugus punched out expenses, mouthpiece Spence said he lost his Focus for a second because he thought his his uh.
His teeth fell out.
So he kind of stopped and turned because he’s out of embarrassment not because he’s hurt.
But I have embarrassment in the middle of the fight, a guy standing like this close to him and he just stopped and turned and ugas took advantage of it and hit him.
And almost dropped him um, so Derek James said that yeah.
You know, Spence lost his focus in that for that quick second, and that that kind of raised the red flag with me, because I said to myself like homie, you cannot be losing your.
You lose your focus against Terence Crawford.
It’S gon na be lights out, so that kind of changed my mind over to Terence Crawford back to to picking Terence Crawford to win this fight.
So a while for a while, I was like yeah, I’m gon na go with Terence, but then again doing all this analyzing.
You know uh the past couple weeks.
Every day I put on um another one of their fights, as I’m training the boxes in the gym.
I got one of the fights on the on the projector over here and um.
The reason why I’m going back to Earl Spence is is the style of fighting.
You know they say Styles make fights again the skill level, even if you want to say Terence Crawford’s skill level is just slightly higher because he he can, he can go Southpaw too.
With that being said, most most professional fighters can fight in both stances, but no one really has the confidence to fight at the highest level in both stances.
Terence Crawford.
By far there’s no question Darren’s Crawford is the number one switch hitter in boxing meaning he can stand in both stances, Orthodox and Southpaw and be just as effective in both stats.
There’S nobody in the sport of boxing that does it better than Terence Crawford at the highest level, again most boxes.
If you’ve been boxing for a while, most boxes can stand at both stances, but not too many again have the confidence to go into that other stance.
At the highest level, when, when it really counts, Terence Crawford is number one at that.
So you’re going to be very interested to see what stance he uh.
He prefers against Earl Spence there’s been times where Terence Crawford came out in the Orthodox, stands in a 12 round fight and just randomly in the third round.
He’Ll switch this softball and just stayed softball the rest of the fight.
So you don’t know who was, I think, um? Those are some boxer.
You know all these everyone’s doing interviews uh with their predictions leading up this fight and um.
One boxer said that Earl Spence had has to prepare for two fighters.
Chris algieri.
I think it was, or else he said, Earl Spence has to prepare for two fighters, because not only does Terence Crawford switch hits like um fights from both stances, but he fights differently from both those stances.
He fights differently from both those stances when he fight when he fighting Orthodox he’s more trying to outbox you, which he does exceptionally well when he if he had the fix when he goes to southpaw when he goes to softball he’s.
Looking he’s going for the kill when Terence Crawford turns to Southpaw he’s looking to stop you to hurt you and stop you.
So it’s going to be very interesting, interesting to see what stance Crawford comes out to um now.
The reason why I was going just to talk about Earl, Spence’s Style, Earl Spence likes to start fast, which is, if you think about it, not common for some of the top guys and girls in in the whole sport.
Usually, if you know you’re a top box, if you’re, if you’re the champion, you know you’re you’re the top person in that division, you know that your opponent has to come after you in order to take the title from you like.
They have to make it clear in most cases they have to come after you in order to take this hell away from you.
Earl Spence is like nah, don’t worry, you have to come after me, I’ll I’ll meet you right in the center of the Ring.
I saw Earl Spence fights.
He comes forward he’s, starting with his jab and he’s looking to fight he’ll box you, but the Aerospace is not mine, mixing it up like getting right in there and mixing it up right off the bat he’s not wasting any time he’s using his jab he’s coming For it coming forward in a smart in a smart aggressive way, not just simply in in an aggressive way, the reason why I believe it’s important to talk about those two Styles girl, Spence coming forward and initiating the the fight Terence Crawford being more.
The counterpuncher is because I believe, there’s gon na be a lot of close rounds in this fight and because Spence tends to be a little bit busier and tends to start the action and tends to come forward more.
I believe, Spence.
The judges will give Spence a lot of the close rounds, maybe not all of them, but a lot of the close rounds, I believe, will be given the Spence and even if it’s a wide score, you know I’m expecting something like a 115 to 113, but if It even if it’s something like why, like something crazy like 117 to a 111 again, a lot of the close rounds will be close like even though the score might be wide, because you know usually, if it’s 117 111, you know one person’s dominant, but it could Be that there was a lot of close rounds and then a lot of those close rounds just went to one specific person and I believe that person will be Earl Spence.
I don’t know what the Cardinal with the well, I guess I guess I got to put a number to it: um I’m gon na be safe.
I’M gon na go with 116 112.
116 112 Earl Spence Jr.
That is my official prediction scorecard for the biggest welterweight Showdown of this generation.
Yeah um curious to know what you guys think what your prediction is yeah.
It keeps going through those pictures – oh no.
I ain’t done yet.
I ain’t done yet keep scrolling through the pictures, because, usually I do is after the fight, but just looking at what else? These guys have to look forward to um want to speak a little bit about Mr Geron boots Ennis.
Now I just want to remind everyone of something about Mr Boots.
Ennis very good boxer definitely passes the eye test right now.
He passes the eye test so much that there’s a lot of people out there that believe that he’s ready to beat not only fight but he’s ready to beat Earl, Spence and Terence Crawford right now so much so that people are saying he should get the the Winner might as well give him the winner, because everyone knows boots his name and and and and his uh putting that battery in his back.
You know he’s charged up ready to go, but what I believe and he could do it either.
I’M not saying I’m not saying this to say that he can do it, but what I believe people are forgetting what I believe he ain’t ready.
I don’t think boots is ready yet um.
What I believe people are forgetting is that Earl, Spence and Terence Crawford were having the same type of highlight real knockouts six years ago, before they stepped up in competition like Geron Booth is doing exactly exactly what he’s supposed to be doing to this level of competition.
Looking good like stopping them and looking good while he’s doing it, um yeah that last fight that he had was playing with homeboy the one right before that he struggled a little bit that you know that that raised a little red flag with me that the fight That he had right before this last one where he went to 12 rounds with it, because his his team and his dad the speech after the match was, you know we didn’t prepare for someone that that was gon na run the whole time.
We were expecting someone that was gon na fight.
Listen the Ring’s, not that big and that’s what you know the term cutting off the ring is especially someone like Bruce Ennis, who has believed he’s as like 27 Knockouts out of his 30 fights.
So he’s.
Definitely a knockout puncher.
You can’t expect your opponent who’s, not well known and not known as the power punch himself to stand there and go toe-to-toe with you.
That just doesn’t would not make sense on his part.
So I would assume that you would have known that and then adjusted your style to that.
So that was my that’s that’s my one red flag with um with boots Ennis.
Is he going to be able to adjust or adapt when Spencer Crawford adjust or adapt on him? That’S going to be the big question, so yeah very interested to see the future uh, but anyway this Saturday, it’s about Bud, Crawford and Earl Spence Jr man.
I can’t wait for it.
I can’t wait for it.
Um of course expect a scorecard scorecard breakdown on Sunday or maybe Monday, depending how late Sunday Sunday is.
I mean how late Saturday is, but uh yeah, so can’t wait man if you ain’t, if obviously no there’s no comments right now, but if you’re not watching this whole live.
Please leave your prediction in the comment section and I will definitely reply to that and I’ll see you guys on Sunday or Monday for the for the for the scorecard for the official scorecard and again I don’t know how this fight there’s no way to to officially Predict you know to predict how this fight’s gon na go.
I don’t know if it’s going to be an all-out War like Hagler and earns it might, because, because again, people are saying no, it won’t be.
But again these guys are very prideful.
Earl Spence Jr is going to come after Crawford away.
Normally, that comes after every opponent aggressively and even though Terence Crawford likes to move around a backup, I think Crawford’s gon na be like you know what F that I ain’t moving around I’m staying right in the center.
You want to do this.
Let’S go.
I have a small feeling: Terence Crawford is going to do that, he’s not going to want to back up and move and and and try to box him and look pretty if Earl Spence is coming after him, Crawford’s gon na be like Fu, I’m not running.
Let’S go um, so it could be a four round shootout: someone getting dropped, hard or 12 round close fight decision there you have there, you have it once again shout out to talk and fight.
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