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Welterweight contender Errol Spence Jr. is on the doorstep of a world title shot.Spence, the 2015 ESPN.com prospect of the year, will meet Leonard Bundu in a world title elimination fight on Sunday in the first boxing event at the new Ford Amphitheater at the Coney Island Boardwalk in Brooklyn, New York -- and he does not just want a victory.Spence wants to impress the national television audience that will be watching the Premier Boxing Champions match, which airs on NBC at about 5 p.m. ET -- immediately after the mens basketball Olympic gold-medal game. Other bouts from the card will air on tape delay beginning at 9 p.m. ET on NBCSN.I just look for another spectacular fight, another spectacular one-sided performance, Spence said. This seems like a familiar refrain, as most of Spences fights so far have been one-sided. Turning pro after reaching the quarterfinals for Team USA in the 2012 Olympics, Spence was regarded by most as the fighter with the best professional potential from the team. So far, he is realizing it.In his last fight, on April 16 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn,New York, Spence destroyed former junior welterweight titlist Chris Algieri on NBC in prime time. He knocked Algieri down three times and stopped him in the fifth round of an overwhelming performance, even more impressive than Manny Pacquiaos decision win against Algieri in a 2014 world title bout.Ive promoted a lot of fighters throughout the years, and there wasnt a better fighter from the last Olympic class or this one that is better than Errol Spence Jr., promoter Lou DiBella said. In terms of ability, talent and instincts, hes world-class. He fights with much more intelligence than his ring age. Hes a master of controlling the ring. When I watch this kid fight Im always blown away.On Sunday, Spence Jr. is fighting a real professional and he has a chance to prove something on national television. This is a great forum for him to follow the Olympic gold-medal basketball game. The kind of audience that is going to watch the gold-medal game [is] the kind of people that we need to bring into boxing.Spence (20-0, 17 KOs), a 26-year-old southpaw from DeSoto, Texas, would like to match his April showing against the 41-year-old Bundu (33-1-2, 12 KOs), a 2000 Olympian from Italy and the reigning European champion.Of course I would want the knockout, but with me, I just look for, you know, a spectacular performance, said Spence, who was born in the New York area and will have plenty of family and friends cheering him on. Its like walk them down or go for the knockout. You know, hopefully I get the knockout. If it comes, Im definitely going to take it. But if I have to box, then Ill box, too, but hopefully I have another performance like I did with Chris Algieri.Im a rising star, and I want to look spectacular against him and get a knockout, but main goal is to win. Thats what Im looking for.The winner of the bout will earn a mandatory title shot at the 147-pound belt held by Englands Kell Brook, though when the winner fights for the title, Brook is unlikely to still hold it as he is moving up to middleweight for a shot at unified titleholder Gennady Golovkin on Sept. 10; win or lose, he will likely never see 147 pounds again.Whether Spence fights Brook for the title or somebody else for the vacant belt is not his concern. He just wants the win over Bundu. Then comes the title opportunity.Bundu is a very good fighter. Hes experienced and technically sound, but he can be awkward, said Spence, who hopes to become the second member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic boxing team to win a world title after Raushee Warren won a bantamweight belt on June 18. We went [down] the rankings trying to find an opponent. A lot of guys didnt want to fight me, even in a title eliminator. So I want to thank Bundu for taking the fight.Im not worried about whats going to happen next. I know whats next if I take care of my business. If I win Im guaranteed a chance at the world title. I want the title fight sooner rather than later.Spence is a huge favorite against Bundu, who has won two fights in a row against low-level opponents since suffering his first defeat, a shutout decision in which he got knocked down by Keith Thurman in an interim world title bout in December 2014 in Las Vegas.Bundu is aware that he is a big underdog against Spence, but he said he is not at all intimidated.Spence Jr. is a good boxer. Hes probably my toughest fight to date, Bundu said. These kinds of fights make me more motivated. I have nothing to lose. Im going to give it all I have, and Im very confident in myself. I believe I can be victorious.Spence Jr. and Thurman have some similarities but also are completely different fighters. I have studied Spence and I believe I will have an even better chance against [him]. I thought my performance was OK against Thurman. There was definitely room to improve and I think Im an even better fighter now than I was then. I feel like I was 10 years ago. Im like wine. Im truly getting better with age.Said DiBella: Theres no question Errol is the favorite while Bundu is the underdog, but hes been the underdog before. He knows he has to win and that this could be his last chance on a big stage.For Spence, it is likely just the start of what could be many years on the big stage.I dont have an eye on the future, he said. I think winning this fight, my future is already set in stone, so Im locked into this fight. Once I get an opponent, Im locked into him. Im locked into Bundu. This is the title eliminator.So Im not worried about the future because I know what comes after this is the world title fight. I [will] win but I dont know how Im going to win, but Im going to win and Im going to look spectacular doing it. Ivan Rodriguez Jersey . Oaklands loss to Seattle clinched the ALs best record for the Red Sox with one day to spare in the regular season. "I think everybody was kind of watching," catcher David Ross said. "Demp (Ryan Dempster) came out before he went to the bullpen and was just yelling that they lost. Washington Nationals Store . 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Wallabies great Toutai Kefu isnt a fan of Australias back-row setup, but the former Test No. 8 believes Michael Cheika has little choice but to play Michael Hooper and David Pocock together such is the dearth of talent at the back of the scrum.As the Pooper combination continues to dominate the build-up to the Wallabies clash with the Springboks in Brisbane on Saturday, Australian rugby fans are left with strong memories of a free-running Kefu such has been the continuing search for a player of the same mould.Wycliff Palu, Richard Brown, Rocky Elsom, Scott Higginbotham, Ben McCalman and now Pocock are just some of the names to have pulled on the No. 8 jersey since Kefus departure, though no man has been able to match the all-round skill-set of the Queenslander.And the situation has perhaps never been grimmer, with Pocock doing his best to fill two roles despite his natural fit at No. 7.I was just having that conversation the other day while I was watching Wallabies training; there hasnt been a real No. 8 [for quite a while] or we cant see any in the foreseeable future, Kefu told ESPN.[Ben] McCalman does some good things; are there some kids coming through? I dont know. Look I just dont know to tell you the truth.When I played, I think players were definitely more skilful then. But the game has changed so much and especially the way the Wallabies play, it is so collision based; whereas back then, we probably played a bit more in terms of passing and offloading.But it just depends on what type of No. 8 youre looking for. In terms of a ball-playing No. 8, I just dont see many around these days.While the Pooper combination helped to fire the Wallabies to the 2015 Rugby World Cup final, a dysfunctional lineout and an inability to breach the gainline in close -- particularly in twin Bledisloe Cup defeats -- have raised questions over the combinations viability.Kefu haas a temporary solution.ddddddddddddIm not that big of a fan of it, but I can see where Michael Cheika is coming from, he said of the dual-fetcher setup.Hes picking two of our better players in the back-row instead of picking the best for the position. Its probably his last chance [to field the combination] this game, and they probably need to have some success and get a good result.Id probably swap the two around; Id probably play Pocock at No. 7 and move Hooper back to No. 8 or maybe even blindside.But No .8 is a really specific role where you need to have a good feel for it and, like I said before, its a position where you can pick and choose when you go in and out of the tight stuff.When he was out of the tight stuff, Kefu was one of the worlds most damaging ball-runners.Responsible for one of Australias iconic Bledisloe moments -- the Inspector Gadget try that sent John Eales into retirement a winner -- Kefu told ESPN of the roaming licence he was given by then-Wallabies coach Eddie Jones, explaining how that role allowed him to be so effective.Look I think Scotty Higginbotham was our last kind of ball-playing No. 8, and even with him a lot of people criticised him for being too loose, Kefu said.But if you look at the way I played, at times, I was loose. I suppose I had the freedom to do that in terms of my coaches.The best coach I had was Eddie Jones, and he basically left the way I wanted to play, and how I saw the game, up to me. But I had that freedom because I had a really good forward pack in front of me; so I could basically pick and choose when I wanted to run and when I wanted to ball-play.And I had a free licence that Eddie Jones gave me, and I suppose there was a special relationship there that allowed that to happen. ' ' '