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2690800, Gotta correct something here...
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Sun Mar-17-19 10:45 AM
Saw a post fight interview, and his right eye was slightly swollen but nothing serious. Other than the Brook fight, I've never seen him look busted up at all, so I guess that that for Mikey lol. Errol dominated but not in the way that alotta people expected him to. He used some boxing ability and disruption of Mikey's rhythm, movement and distance control rather than just walking him down and punishing him as he probably could have. He seemed upset that people chose against him based on what they'd seen of him, but that's all you can expect people to judge a fight on. I personally don't trip on ppl not picking a fighter to win based on his race, especially if you're betting, and that's what he seems to want people to do (refer to his tweet: "My people stay going against the grain"). At the same time, I can't be mad at him for thinking that way when Mexican trainers and fighters very often say "I gotta go with the Mexican" when they're asked who they're picking, and nobody judges them for doing that, but they'll call Black folks "racist" when we do it. He referenced this in his post fight interview when he talked about Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson picking against him even tho their own ethnic groups always rooted for them, and all the Mexican legends also picked Mikey, so Spence said he felt insulted (you can see that around 4:40 in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEExNmgKaD4 ). But anyway, Spence finally showed some of this skill that people behind the scenes kept saying he had. Mikey's last fight was against Robert Easter Jr who is actually taller than Errol with a much longer reach but isn't nearly as strong or even as skilled.