Errol "The Truth" Spence Jr seems to save his best performances for his homecoming fights at AT&T Stadium, back in March of 2019 he threw a virtuosos performance against Mikey Garcia, shouting out the four-division world champion, then in his last fight came back and defeat Danny "Swift" Garcia in December of 2020, coming off of the horrific car accident. He pulled off the trifecta and stopped Yordenis Ugas via 10th round TKO when referee Laurence Cole waived the fight off due to Ugas having his right eye swollen completely shut and later admitted he could not see out of the eye.
After an epic ring walk accompanied by Southside Da Realist the night got off to a less than spectacular start for the South Dallas native he seemed hurt by a body shot and likely lost the first round to the fired-up Cuban world champion. However, the momentum quickly shifted, as a motivated and courageous Ugas took a stylistic risk by standing in with the hard-hitting and freakishly strong Spence Jr. Ugas battled valiantly and had plenty of moments but it was the southpaw from Texas who was clearly getting the best of it as he opened up a lead on the scorecards going into the sixth round. The round in which Ugas did his best work Errol Spence Jr. Stunning the Texan multiple times a right hand from Ugas knocked Spence's mouthpiece, Spence after having his bell rung by the shot looked for his mouthpiece as Ugas guy in landing left hand followed by a right that sent the Spence reeling into the ropes and perhaps could have ruled a knockdown as it did appear that the ropes helped keep Spence on his feet. The sequence of events appeared to wake Spence up who rallied late in the round and then regained control of the fight the next round and put together a dominant round in the eighth banging away on the inside and rocking Ugas with uppercuts and left hands a round so one-sided two of the judges scored it 10-8 in favor of Spence without a knockdown. The now brutal one-sided beatdown came to an end at 1:44. Cole sent Ugas to the corner to be examined by the doctor for a second time and this time the doc instructed Cole to waive the bout off.
It was the first fight back for "The Truth" after a 16-month layoff due to an eye injury that forced him out of a mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao last summer. Ugas's trainer Ismael Salas claimed Spence wasn't the same fighter following the car wreck and the injury. Salas was correct it wasn't the same Spence, it was actually a much better Spence and Spence is going to have to be this version if he is going to fight WBO champ Terence Crawford next who he directly called out following the Ugas victory. A victorious Crawford explained “I want Terence Crawford next. That’s the fight I want, that’s the fight everybody else wants. I’ve got these straps, I’m gonna go take his s**t, too.”