Errol Spence returns to the squared circle at the end of this month, ‘The Truth’ will lock horns with the tried and tested 2-weight world champion, Lamont Peterson.
Spence will be looking to make the first defence of his IBF world welterweight title. Spence won that title on enemy territory when he travelled to Sheffield in May, last year.
He brutally overwhelmed and overran the Kell Brook’s work rate and eventually broke down the game former champion over the second half of their clash.
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Brook ended the night with a broken orbital bone and was counted out in the 11th round.
Kell Brook decided following that fight that he would step up and campaign as a super welterweight. The step up in weight has been something Brook’s team have wanted for quite some time, most notably Eddie Hearn.
Errol Spence has shared his opinion that he feels Brook will find success in his new weight class.
“I don’t see why Kell can’t win a title at that weight,” Spence told Sky Sports.
“No one will know what my fight has done to him until we see him fight again, but he is a good fighter and we expected him to move up for a while.”
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“Kell is a guy that has a lot of heart, a lot of balls and is a real fighter,” Spence said.
“He could easily have vacated the belt and moved up. But he wanted to fight me and not give it up, so I applaud Kell Brook for being a real fighter.”
“Lamont Peterson is very experienced and he’s got a big heart,” Spence added.
“We know he is a guy that knows how to fight, but I don’t think he’s got anything I haven’t come across before.
He might be as strong as Kell Brook, so I will be physically prepared and mentally prepared – even if it is a tougher fight than Kell Brook.
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— Errol Spence (@ErrolSpenceJr) December 31, 2017
“He has all that experience, but I have fought other guys with that and I feel like being a world champion now, I have more experience now.”
“You can’t get more experience than I did going over to Sheffield, fighting against Kell Brook,” Spence concluded.
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