{"id":444390,"date":"2023-07-28T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444390"},"modified":"2023-07-28T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:45:28","slug":"spence-jr-says-he-has-mental-edge-over-crawford","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/spence-jr-says-he-has-mental-edge-over-crawford\/","title":{"rendered":"Spence Jr. says he has &#8216;mental edge&#8217; over Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Errol Spence Jr. claimed that he has a &#8216;mental edge&#8217; over Terence Crawford before their upcoming clash in Las Vegas on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u203c\ufe0f Errol Spence vs Terence Crawford face-off at their final press conference ahead of Saturday night\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShowtimeBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShowtimeBoxing<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMG9TrAPem\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NMG9TrAPem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelBensonn\/status\/1684668080696295425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spence will try to snatch Crawford&#8217;s WBO title in his first undisputed fight in his career.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of heated exchanges between the two teams in the press conference, Spence labelled his opponent as &#8220;too emotional&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely have the mental edge,&#8221; Spence said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His team [were] heckling me and I just smiled. It comes with the territory. I&#8217;m not getting paid to fight them, I&#8217;m getting paid to fight him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So my attention is to him, not his coach not towards anybody else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spence is currently in a fine run of form, enjoying a 28-fights unbeaten streak and being the holder of the WBC, WBA and IBF titles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Errol Spence Jr. claimed that he has a &#8216;mental edge&#8217; over Terence Crawford before their upcoming clash in Las Vegas on Saturday. \u203c\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":444391,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20657,20658],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[20659,20660],"acf":{"announce":"The duo will meet in Las Vegas on Saturday for undisputed fight","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444390"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444390"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}