Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford argued in the bowels of Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City in 2018, an otherwise ordinary back-and-forth exchange that went on to hold outsized significance to boxing fans everywhere.
A matchup between two of boxing's best fighters was ripe on that November evening nearly five years ago, but for a variety of reasons since that day, the bout couldn't be delivered. Fans instead settled for years as Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) and Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) fought each other with incendiary words outside the ring as a multitude of issues prevented a matchup from materializing.