Spence activates rematch clause.

[Kirkland Laing]

Would definitely say Spence should take a get back fight at 154 and give himself every shot of salvaging and steadying remainder of career. Saw talk that he may very well replace Derrick James too.

calvin ford & roy jones jr are rumoured to be in the running as replacement options

Never been big on Roy as full time trainer. Partly as he’s still determined to fight himself but Roy is going to Roy and always be a focus. He and Spence come off as polar opposites in personality and style. Either way, new trainer screams “tune up needed” before a Bud rematch with them.

I don't think that Spence has a tune up in him, and I am pretty sure that Errol doesn't think that he has one in him, either. To me, it looks like a cash out move, because his option, moneywise, is Crawford and a tune up fight would put that at risk.
The trainer change...I remember when Derrick was getting a ton of credit for teaching Spence to fight like a pro. In my opinion- and a this is based on a detailed email he sent me regarding a fighter I was with detailing what he saw as that fighter's limitations and how he would fix them- he fundamentally misunderstands some things about stance and weight distribution and transfer. I think that all of these things are visible in the fighter. I don't think that the change is going to make a difference; you aren't going to make any changes in a short term situation, even in the best of circumstances, and I don't think that Spence will do any sparring beyond the bare minimum for this fight. If offered, I would take the payday but I wouldn't quit my job because it is not a career positive.

This is it. Spence's style has a limited shelf life and he knows he may have gone past his expiry date and so now more than ever the rest of his career is about paydays. The rematch is by far the biggest payday he can get at 154. If he loses he's only still lost to one guy and is marketable to some extent at 154 having banked the rematch money. If he takes a tuneup he could easily look shot and nobody wants to see the rematch. So he's going to do the rematch.

Crawford's thinking won't be too dissimilar either. He is apparently not going to be around much longer and the rematch is the biggest cheque at 154 and could/should be another easy night's work for him. He's then an established name at 154 and unbeaten and may have improved his box office power with two defeats of Spence. It puts him in the best position he could possibly be in. The rematch works for both of them.

[Big J]

The rematch is the price we have to pay for getting the 1st fight