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“I feel like my car accident was the wake-up call from God, telling me to really focus and, you know, bite down and re-focus on what’s going on,” Spence said. “And I feel like I wasn’t as focused as I am now. It’s kind of like from the Kell Brook fight or before that, like how focused I am now. I feel like I’m really trying to put my all into it because I’ve got a lot of stuff to prove people wrong.
The 2012 U.S. Olympian’s accident happened a week and a half after Spence edged Shawn Porter by split decision in their 12-round welterweight title unification fight September 28 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Spence revealed to Flores that his lack of discipline between bouts contributed to him reaching roughly 190 pounds, 43 above the welterweight limit, before he began training for the Porter fight.
“Even [before] the Shawn Porter fight,” Spence said, “I was blowing up to like – Shawn Porter and the Mikey Garcia fight. Matter of fact, the Mikey Garcia fight, the day of the weigh-ins I had to sit in a sauna for like two hours. I didn’t sweat, and I had a sauna bag on and everything, and I didn’t sweat until like probably an hour [after] being in the sauna. And I didn’t sweat at all. Even [before] the Shawn Porter fight, I had blown up to like 190 or something like that. And then, you know, had to lose it all and then killing myself to make weight.”
“Just getting too comfortable,” Spence said. “Getting too comfortable. Getting way too comfortable. Eating a lot. I think Marvin Hagler was the one that said it’s hard to get up, you know, when you’re sleeping in silk sheets.”
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The 2012 U.S. Olympian’s accident happened a week and a half after Spence edged Shawn Porter by split decision in their 12-round welterweight title unification fight September 28 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Spence revealed to Flores that his lack of discipline between bouts contributed to him reaching roughly 190 pounds, 43 above the welterweight limit, before he began training for the Porter fight.
“Even [before] the Shawn Porter fight,” Spence said, “I was blowing up to like – Shawn Porter and the Mikey Garcia fight. Matter of fact, the Mikey Garcia fight, the day of the weigh-ins I had to sit in a sauna for like two hours. I didn’t sweat, and I had a sauna bag on and everything, and I didn’t sweat until like probably an hour [after] being in the sauna. And I didn’t sweat at all. Even [before] the Shawn Porter fight, I had blown up to like 190 or something like that. And then, you know, had to lose it all and then killing myself to make weight.”
“Just getting too comfortable,” Spence said. “Getting too comfortable. Getting way too comfortable. Eating a lot. I think Marvin Hagler was the one that said it’s hard to get up, you know, when you’re sleeping in silk sheets.”
read the entire article here
https://www.boxingscene.com/spence-...-148137?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter