Who can handle ‘The Truth’?

Errol Spence has sent shock waves through boxing with his annihilation of Leonard Bundu, writes Isaac Robinson.

IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook has gone from the frustration of struggling to find viable challenges to suddenly finding himself preparing for one of the most glamorous bouts Britain will have ever witnessed. Furthermore, he is now being waited on by the world’s classiest mandatory challenger.

Errol Spence has had to force this. Not, it’s important to point out immediately, because of Brook. By agreeing to take on fearsome middleweight Gennady Golovkin, ‘The Special One’ has risen high above any suspicion he was trying to protect his unbeaten record by facing sub-standard opponents.

It’s more a case of Spence having all of the skill and none of the exposure. By becoming the first man to dispatch Bundu (33-2-2-KO12) inside the distance (and doing so in the sixth round), he may have gone some way to rectify the situation in terms of commercial sway.

WBA champion Keith Thurman couldn’t dispatch ‘The Lion’ in December 2014 and the fact Spence did so with such emphasis speaks volumes. Going a month further back to cross-reference his ‘form’ with even bigger names, Manny Pacquiao was taken the distance by Chris Algieri. In April this year, Spence blew the New Yorker away in five.

He’s been calling big names for a long time but ever since the whispers he was ejected from Floyd Mayweather’s camp for dishing out too much brilliance in a sparring session with ‘Money’, Spence has found no queue outside his door and has had to fight through the crowd towards the spotlight. Saturday night represented a breakthrough, and he’s now on the brink of official illumination.

While the rumours of events inside the Mayweather gym have always …

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