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Errol Spence Jr. (born March 3, 1990) is an American professional boxer. He is currently a unified welterweight world champion, having held the IBF title since 2017 and the WBC title since 2019. As an amateur in the welterweight division, he won three consecutive United States national championships and represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, where he reached the quarter-finals. In 2015, Spence was named Prospect of the Year by ESPN.
As of August 2021, Spence is ranked as the world's fourth best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec, Boxing Writers Association of America and ESPN, fifth by TBRB, and sixth by The Ring magazine.[8] He is also ranked as the world's best active welterweight by The Ring, and TBRB, and second by BoxRec, and ESPN. His knockout-to-win ratio stands at 78%.
