By Patrick McHugh: Since dispatching the normally durable Chris Algieri (21-3, 8 KOs) in five rounds last Saturday night in their IBF welterweight title eliminator, Errol Spence Jr’s win has been put under the microscope by some members of the media and by fans, who are looking for a reason to help explain why he was able to stop Algieri so quickly in their fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The latest explanation that some have latched onto is that the 32-year-old Algieri was weight drained for the fight. Algieri looked huge in the ring last night, especially in comparison to how he appeared at Friday’s weigh-in. Algieri weighed in at 145.6lbs at the weigh-in, and he was very thin looking like he’d taken too much weight off while dehydrating to make the 147lb limit.