Errol Spence Jr. is now the IBF Welterweight champion after a thrilling stoppage win over England’s Kell Brook in Kell’s hometown of Sheffield. This was yet another soccer stadium show in the UK, with 27,000 or so packing Brammall Lane. Unlike Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko in April, there was no victory for the home fighter.
It was a tense, back-and-forth affair in the first half of the fight, which I had scored event. The second-half was firmly in the American’s favor, as those body shots were wearing Brook down, and the jabs and power shots had busted up Brook’s eye.