Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-09-11, pretty good fight between Errol Spence Jr and Chris van Heerden: it gets three stars.The undefeated Errol Spence Jr entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 17-0-0 (14 KOs=82%) and he is ranked as the No.30 welterweight in the world. He has already fought twice in 2015 winning over Samuel Vargas and Phil Lo Greco (=Spence vs Lo Greco).
His opponent, Chris van Heerden, has a record of 23-1-1 (12 knockouts) and he entered as the No.25 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss in 2010 when he faced Nikola Stevanovic (by split decision), since then he has won nine consecutive bouts beating Ramon Ayala in his last one. Spence vs van Heerden is on the undercard of Adonis Stevenson vs Tommy Karpency. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-09-11
Where: Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto, Canada
Division: welterweight (147 lbs, 66.7 kg)
Spence’s previous fight: Errol Spence Jr vs Phil Lo Greco
Spence’s next fight: Errol Spence Jr vs Alejandro Barrera
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Official video:
(Alternative free embeddable video hosted on Dailymotion)
Official highlights
Spence did a good job BUT –
he was in the ring with a padder. Looks good on paper but record is way miss telling.
Spence was a bit to patient in my opinion.
I think he should have uped the tempo.
Unfortunately Im unsure if we will ever get to see
how good Spence is while Haymon exist.
Spence looks like a very promising talent, totally dominated the South African. At least the other guy came to try, but he ate one hell of a shellacking.
Spence is especially good at taking advantage of small, fleeting openings where other boxers aren’t smart or fast enough. An opportunistic hunter with superb aim and cat-like mobility.
Looking at the top ten welterweights, I think he’d especially give problems to Chaves (who’s a lot like the slow, oafish Van Heerden) and Bradley (not heavy-handed enough and too easily drawn into a slugfest). It looks like Spence hits harder than Porter but not as lethally as Kell Brook. Khan has as much speed, and that’d be an exciting duel.