AHEAD of the fight that will define his career, Errol Spence has little desire to hide the fact that money is driving him to put his reputation on the line.
The fight to determine the finest welterweight of their era is finally, after six years of posturing, bringing Spence and Terence Crawford together, and for all of the talk of legacies, rivalries and becoming an undisputed champion, Spence has prosperity on his mind.
If Errol Spence-Terence Crawford is recognised as the biggest fight since Floyd Mayweather met Manny Pacquiao in 2015, then just like Mayweather-Pacquiao it is taking place amid suggestions that both boxers are past their peaks. Unlike Mayweather-Pacquiao, however, neither has captured the imagination of the casual fan in the way required to generate anything like the income of the two most popular fighters of the modern era.
It was Spence, 33, who revealed in May that he and Crawford, frustrated for years by the inability of those around them to agree terms for them to fight, had been speaking over the phone to negotiate Saturday’s fight at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile
