‘I don’t like the fight’: Tarver says it’s a risky move to match Spence against Fundora
Antonio Tarver would prefer to see Errol Spence take a soft touch before jumping back in the deep end.
Antonio Tarver takes some time to break down his thoughts on a proposed fight between Errol Spence and Sebastian Fundora, and why he’s not a big fan of Spence jumping right back in the fire after so much time away from the ring combined with the beatdown he took from Terence Crawford. Here’s some of what Tarver had to say about that matchup below.
“Personally, from what I saw, I don’t like the fight,” Tarver said. “I don’t like the fight for Spence, and that’s the truth. The long layoff, inactivity, and you bringing him back against a killer like Fundora. Where are the tune-up fights at in the game anymore? Bring a guy back on an eight rounder and let him brush himself off. I mean he can be on the undercard.
“But it’s all or nothing it seems like. And we don’t know what Spence is going to come back. Why put him under that fire against Fundora, because Fundora coming to win. Fundora got that reach and that height. How we gonna solve this?
“This guy is not a power puncher, he’s a volume puncher. He’s not a power puncher. Now can Errol Spence walk him into a perfect counter shot and knock him out? Yeah. He can do that. But likely he’s going to have to break Fundora down because Fundora ain’t going to stop trying. He’s going to have to break him down to the body and clip him up top.
“Now we ain’t seen Spence in a while. I just don’t know what to expect coming off that long layoff and that horrible loss to Crawford. That plays on you mentally, too. I just want to see how my man gonna look, feel me.
“But right out the gate, and we rolling the dice now because we don’t know what our man looking like. And unless he has like, I’m talking about a training camp from God, like a training camp that’s really covering all the bases and we know our guy ready, then we put him in there prepared.”