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By Scott Shaffer
17/01/2025
Inactive since a punishing loss to Terence Crawford in 2023, former champion Errol Spence, Jr. tweeted, "I’ll be back when I'm ready." Spence was responding to a Twitter storm started by Gustavo Oliveri, president of the WBO, who ruled out a WBO sanction for a fight between Spence WBO/WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora, a proposed fight that seems to have imploded anyway. Oliveri tweeted this about Spence: "ESPN has reported that the [Sebastian] Fundora vs. Spence bout is now off. The WBO would not sanction the fight because (1) Spence has been inactive for one year and five months; (2) he lost his last fight via brutal TKO [in a welterweight unification bout vs. Terence Crawford]; (3) Spence is not rated at 154 pounds, and 4) Spence has never fought at 154 pounds. Ruling otherwise would be a disservice to the other top fifteen world-rated contenders in the WBO junior middleweight division."