Dallas' 4 Eva
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Either way I think we need to let Spence clean out 147. He shouldn't even be thinking about canelo. That's all just hype on his part. He been saying that for years but they never really chase canelo like that. But canelo is not slow no matter who he's fighting. The only guys who's ever had faster hands than canelo was Floyd. And errols hand speed is nowhere near Floyd's. It's more like Danny Jacobs if anything. Errol isn't slow either but the main difference is that canelo is far more compact and fluid. His shorter stature will actually work in his favor because he's gonna be able to get inside and beat Errol to the punch every time. And that'll be the difference. Errol has to fix all that wild loopy shyt. He still has way too many moments where he gets lazy and takes unnecessary shots because he can't keep his form tight.
I will concede to this, because even Derrick James in the corner after round 10 said he needs to stop getting relaxed and playing around with Danny, because he let Danny kind of just work his way to winning two rounds(I had it 9-3 Spence this fight was over by round 6). The fight was basically over at that point, but I'll give you that he seems to get relaxed and coast after a while, probably because he be beating people so bad he gets bored.
Also I'm fairly positive Lara had much faster hands than Canelo as well. Lara's speed was noticeably faster than Canelo's as well that is why Canelo had so much trouble with him.
I think Spence would be a lot faster at 154 and 160 honestly. I think you only think he is slow because the fighters at 147 are fast for the most part, Danny is the one exception to that. Thurman, Porter, Pac, and Crawford are all pretty quick and since Spence is the more rangy fighter he is gonna appear slower than he really is.