{"id":364719,"date":"2025-12-23T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364719\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:13:08","slug":"former-world-champion-calls-out-errol-spence-for-comeback-fight-in-new-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364719\/","title":{"rendered":"Former world champion calls out Errol Spence for comeback fight in new division"},"content":{"rendered":"

Errol Spence Jr<\/a> continues to be linked to a comeback despite his prolonged inactivity. Now, the former unified titleholder has been publicly called out by a fellow former world champion.<\/p>\n

Spence is yet to fight since his devastating defeat when bidding for the undisputed welterweight throne against Terence Crawford back in July 2023<\/a>, where he suffered a first career loss.<\/p>\n

In that fight, \u2018The Truth\u2019 was noticeably hampered by his struggles to make 147lbs and the slick southpaw has been rumoured for fights at both super-welterweight and middleweight as a result.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, following a second hometown victory of 2025, former WBC super-welterweight titlist Tony Harrison called Spence Jr. out in his post-fight interview, as the Detroit fan-favourite revealed plans for a clash at 160lbs, in a clip captured by Thrill Boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiddleweight is where I am comfortable, I made the weight good, but I just had a southpaw fight and the good thing about being from Detroit is that I know when somebody has got the itch. I know when somebody wants to come back to the sport, I know when somebody is fiending to come back to the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to fight somebody of my generation; I think a fight with Errol Spence would please everybody. I think me and him coming back, champion versus champion, skills versus skill, toughness versus toughness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ain\u2019t doing no running, I\u2019m there to be hit, so if you feel like you the man, I love you my dawg, but let\u2019s give the fans what they want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now 35 years old, Spence Jr. maintains that he will return to boxing when he is ready<\/a>, although Harrison would undoubtedly be a viable option if that time is soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Jr continues to be linked to a comeback despite his prolonged inactivity. Now, the former unified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}