{"id":193075,"date":"2025-10-11T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193075\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:44:14","slug":"fans-react-to-errol-spence-training-footage-after-most-likely-comeback-opponent-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193075\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans React To Errol Spence Training Footage After Most Likely Comeback Opponent Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr appears to be on the verge of making his long-awaited comeback to the sport after over two years away from the ring.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old from Long Island, New York has not fought since he suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/38097992\/terence-crawford-stops-errol-spence-jr-win-undisputed-welterweight-crown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the first defeat of his professional career to countryman Terence Crawford in July of 2023<\/a>, surrendering his unified WBC, WBA and IBF welterweight titles in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Spence had been expected to make his return to the ring during the earlier stages of this year, although a discussed clash with reigning WBC super-welterweight champion Sebastian Fundora fell at the final hurdle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/spence-in-talks-to-face-ex-world-champion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reports now suggest that the 35-year-old could be in line to face two-weight world champion Jermell Charlo next.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether or not those talks come to anything remains to be seen, however \u2018The Truth\u2019 is now back in the gym and and appears to be in good shape, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/5vc09yKP23A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posting a video of himself hitting the pads.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One commenter said, \u201cGlad to see my boy back focusing on his craft. One loss doesn\u2019t define your career, keep grinding!\u201d Another praised Spence\u2019s physique: \u201cMy Guy back in shape and very serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlo has also been absent for two years, not competing since his loss to Canelo Alvarez in September of 2023. Though that fight was a jump up, he will likely return to the super-welterweight ranks, where he was previously undisputed, to welcome Spence up from welterweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr appears to be on the verge of making his long-awaited comeback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}