It has been almost three years since Errol Spence Jr stepped through the ropes, but a summer return against Australia\u2019s Tim Tszyu seems to be gathering pace.<\/p>\n
Spence was handed the first defeat of his career back in 2023 by Terence Crawford, who became the undisputed welterweight world champion that night. Despite many feeling that it was a pick \u2019em fight beforehand, Crawford won handily, dropping Spence three times before scoring a TKO in the ninth.<\/p>\n
After a lengthy lay-off and persistent rumours of a return, Spence reportedly has \u2018a done deal\u2019 with Tszyu provided the Aussie comes through Denis Nurja this weekend in Wollongong.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Crawford praised Tszyu\u2019s campaign so far.<\/p>\n \u201cTim Tszyu [has] had a great career, it\u2019s still going. He\u2019s accomplished a lot for what his experience entails. His fight this weekend \u2013 I don\u2019t know too much about the opponent other than he\u2019s undefeated. Will he be back on top and become a champion again? I can\u2019t say he won\u2019t, I can\u2019t say he will. We just got to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the recently retired five-division world champion<\/a> backs his former foe to win should all go to plan and the fight take place.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Spence beats him. At this point in both of their careers, I think he beats him.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans will hope to see a reinvigorated Spence, particularly since he will be returning at 154lbs after cutting to the welterweight limit of 147 for so long. However, questions remain over what he has left in the tank following various injuries \u2013 not least a serious car accident.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been almost three years since Errol Spence Jr stepped through the ropes, but a summer return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-576254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576254","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=576254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}