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Terence Crawford administered a shocking beatdown of Errol Spence in their long-awaited unification bout on Saturday night, becoming the first undisputed welterweight champion in nearly four decades while staking a credible claim as the world’s best fighter regardless of weight.
Crawford knocked down Spence in the second round and twice more in the seventh before referee Harvey Dock intervened at the 2:32 mark of round nine. No one in the sold-out crowd of 19,990 at the T-Mobile Arena would have protested if he’d stepped in sooner.
The matchup between undefeated American stars more than five years in the making was billed as the best fight that boxing could deliver. But after an opening round that unfolded on even terms, it quickly spun into little more than a platform for Crawford’s generational talent. The 35-year-old Nebraskan stamped his name into history with an extraordinary exhibition of power, precision and ring generalship that made an elite opponent look like a novice.
Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs), a former champion at 135lbs and 140lbs who went off as a slight favorite in Saturday’s eagerly anticipated showdown, became the first fighter to hold all of the recognized world titles at welterweight since 1986, when Lloyd Honeyghan stopped Donald Curry at Caesars Atlantic City to capture the WBA, WBC and IBF belts in one of the great upsets in British boxing history.
It came at the expense of Spence (28-1, 22 KOs), a 2012 US Olympian from the Dallas suburb of DeSoto, whose deliberate come-forward approach, dependent on generating pressure behind a methodical southpaw jab, proved no match for Crawford’s dynamic switch-hitting style and note-perfect counter-punching.
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