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- Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN. He joined the company in July 2019. Prior to ESPN, he worked for various newspapers in Texas, most recently at The Dallas Morning News where he covered college sports.
He provides daily coverage of the Bengals for ESPN.com, while making appearances on SportsCenter, ESPN’s NFL shows and ESPN Radio programs.
A native of Grapevine, Texas, he graduated from the University of North Texas with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He is an adjunct journalism professor at Southern Methodist University and a member of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).
LAS VEGAS — Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford meet on Saturday night in one of the most-anticipated fights in years which will crown the best welterweight in the world.
The fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas is for the undisputed welterweight championship. Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) of Desoto, Texas, is the WBC, WBA and IBF welterweight champion, while Crawford (39-0, 30), of Omaha, Nebraska has the WBO belt in the 147-pound division.
Crawford, 35, a three-division champion and a former undisputed junior welterweight champion, won his 147-pound title with a ninth-round TKO over Jeff Horn in June 2018. He has defended the belt six times, including in a sixth-round KO of David Avanesyan in December.
Spence, 33, has been a career welterweight. He defeated Kell Brook by 11th-round KO in 2017 to win the IBF title. He unified the WBC belt with a unanimous-decision win over Mikey Garcia in 2019 and added the WBA title by stopping Yordenis Ugas in 10 rounds in April 2022.
Follow live as Mike Coppinger and Ben Baby recap all the action with results, analysis and round-by-round scoring of the main event.