'The Truth' is back: Reliving Errol Spence Jr.'s five biggest wins ahead of Tim Tszyu fight

The former unified welterweight world champion returns to action for the first time in about three years Saturday night when he clashes with Tim Tszyu at Afterpay Arena in Sydney Olympic Park in New South Wales, Australia. The 154-pound bout will be contested live on DAZN PPV and Ultimate Tier.

At 36, Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) hasn’t been in the ring since suffering his first loss in a drubbing at the hands of Terence Crawford back in July 2023. The undisputed welterweight world championship fight had ‘Bud’ dropping ‘The Truth’ three times toward a riveting ninth-round TKO.

Although Spence was supposed to fight Sebastian Fundora, the bout never materialized. This weekend, Spence clashes with Tszyu (27-3, 18 KOs) who has rebounded from a stoppage loss to Fundora by defeating Anthony Velazquez in December 2025 and Dennis Nurja this past April — both by unanimous decision.

In recognition of ‘The Truth’ trying to make himself a hot commodity at super welterweight by returning to boxing with a stellar victory, DAZN News looks back at his five best victories.

Stopping Yordenis Ugas to claim a third title; April 16, 2022

Yordenis Ugas was surging when he came face to face with Spence. The rugged Cuban was coming off taking the WBA welterweight title with a split-decision win over Abel Ramos in September 2020 followed by unanimously outpointing Manny Pacquiao who was 42 at the time.

Then, he met Errol Spence Jr. who proceeded to dole out a steady beating, shutting Ugas' right eye toward a 10th-round TKO. The win gave Spence the WBA welterweight title to add to his WBC and IBF straps.

Turning back a battle-tested Danny Garcia in style; December 5, 2020

Heading into this bout, the boxing world wanted to see how Spence would look following a devastating one-car crash he sustained not even two full weeks removed from defeating Shawn Porter.

With Danny ‘Swift’ Garcia, Spence had a savvy veteran who was a former welterweight world champion and eager to get back to the top of the 147-pound division heap.

‘The Truth’ turned back the challenge by working solidly behind a piercing jab and edging Garcia with a higher output. A hard-fought unanimous decision at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas allowed Spence to keep his titles in style.

Winning a war against Shawn Porter to become a unified ruler; September 28, 2019

The dogged determination and pressure from ‘Showtime’ Shawn Porter was on display from the opening bell of this massive welterweight unification fight.

However, Spence’s own resolute boxing and punching eventually got to Porter, forcing the WBC titleholder’s glove to touch the canvas via a raucous left hook across the jaw.

The knockdown, which came with one minute left in the 11 ^th round, served as the exclamation point to Spence’s split-decision victory. Judges saw it 116-111 twice for Spence against 115-112 for Porter as the former left the Staples Center in Los Angeles as the unified welterweight champ with arguably the best win of his career.

Giving Mikey Garcia a rude awakening at welterweight; March 16, 2019

During the buildup, Mikey Garcia told anyone who would listen, including me, that he sees a hole in Spence’s fight game and planned on exposing it. Garcia was so adamant about it that the former unified lightweight world champion moved up two divisions to vie for Spence’s IBF welterweight crown.

Admired for his guts, Garcia’s ambition was rejected with a rude awakening as Spence proved there’s levels to boxing by pitching a dominant shutout.

Judges scored it 120-107, 120-108 and 120-108 for Spence as ‘The Truth’ of his superiority over a smaller and outmatched Garcia prevailed in front of 47,500-plus fans at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Claiming first world title on foreign soil; May 27, 2017

Spence had rattled off 21 straight victories and was riding a knockout streak of eight fights to earn a world title shot. To capture the IBF welterweight world championship, he’d have to beat Kell Brook in the champ’s hometown of Sheffield, England.

Behind steady pressure, Spence overcame a bit of turbulence in the sixth and eighth rounds, in particular, to eventually drop Brook behind a barrage of blows in the 10 ^th round. ‘The Truth’ then forced an 11 ^th -round stoppage against the Sheffield, England native whose left eye was badly swollen.

It was a riveting end and new beginning as Spence was crowned a world champion at 147 pounds for the first time.

This weekend, he’ll look to assert the same climb up to world championship glory, but at 154 pounds, beginning with a formidable Tszyu.

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