SportsDayDFW's "Ballzy" podcast host Kevin Sherrington recently discussed DeSoto boxer Errol Spence's IBF World Welterweight Title win with Barry Horn and 96.7 The Ticket's Sean Bass. Here are some of the highlights.

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Is Errol Spence the boxer Dallas can get behind?

Barry Horn:

The reason we don't talk boxing is because boxing has always been an afterthought here in DFW. But now we have a young, exciting, 27-year-old, 147 pound welterweight champion in Errol Spence and I think he is something we can build upon. In a city that loves front runners, he is going to be a name in the headlines for quite awhile.

Sean Bass:

And #mandown, because that's the hashtag stamp that even Dez Bryant was throwing out during his fight this past weekend.

Barry Horn: Dez, I guess was down in the DeSoto area right near Errol -- Errol lives in the shadow of DeSoto High School. He went to high school with Von Miller and several guys that went to Texas A&M to play football. He was a football player -- at 147 pounds, there's not much of a future playing football, maybe he could balloon up to 160 or 165 but there's still not much of a future. He decided to go with boxing. And I think it's been 20 years since we've had a world champion here, and he is a deserving and very, very, very excellent fighter.

On whether 'hometown' Spence is boxing's next big thing?

Number one ranked IBF Welterweight contender Errol Spence, Jr. works out with his trainer, Derrick James on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at R&R Boxing Club in Dallas. The workout is in advance of his mandatory title shot against IBF Welterweight Champion Kell Brook on Saturday, May 27 in Sheffield, England. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News) (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

Kevin Sherrington: Now I want to put this in scope for listeners: I believe that Sports Illustrated says that he could be the heir to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in boxing.

Barry Horn: He could be the heir in technical boxing skills, I don't think he could be the heir in promotional, circus-like skills. He's not that kind of guy. He's a quiet, homebody -- I love the fact that he lives in a house on Raspberry Lane and Vanilla - the intersection of those two. He is not Floyd Mayweather in terms of selling the sport. He might be as technically proficient - not really as technically proficient, but he could be close -- but he is not a carnival barker. He's not part of the circus.

He's not the type -- if you watched the fight, the build-up to the fight -- he and Kell Brook were gentlemen to each other, there was no screaming, shouting. After the fight he thanked Kell Brook for the opportunity to fight him. There is no circus atmosphere. If you can stand boxing without a circus atmosphere, he's your guy.

He's very good. He's a left-handed fighter which causes all kinds of difficulties in the ring for most opponents. He is trained by another local -- it's a really nice story -- because what happens in boxing, it happens time and time again, is that fighters, they're brought up by a trainer, and then they go to a big time trainer, and they get lost in the stable, and everything changes.

He's been trained by Derrick James, a local who's a professional fighter from the area. He took him to the Olympics, that didn't go as well as they had hoped. It was in London -- ironically, in England where he lost. It's a whole different game. But he stayed with Derrick. This has the opportunity to be a nice, hometown story.

The brand now is the fighter. It's not the belt he owns. I don't know if we're at the point where people will be ready to pay to see Errol Spence. He's certainly worthy of it. But he's really non-descript outside the ring, and in boxing, that's a major, major thing.

Why Curtis Cokes remains the one great fighter in Dallas history

Longtime boxing trainer and former welterweight champion Curtis Cokes was on hand for the grand re-opening and ribbon cutting of the multipurpose Life Center at the Village Oaks Apartments in southern Dallas, Wednesday, January 22, 2014. The Center provides the surrounding neighborhood with a workout facility and sports leagues, boxing programs, and life skills programs. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) 01242014xSPORTS (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

Barry Horn: Because he was a warrior. He fought, he fought everybody who came on. He was a boxer. He was a fighter. He could do anything you wanted. It's amazing -- back when Curtis was getting started, he'd fight once every other month. Once every three months. He'd fight at the Sportatorium. He'd fight at Memorial Auditorium which I believe is now part of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. He'd be here. He was part of the community. People cared about him. He was a terrific fighter. He'd win, he'd lose -- we live in an era now where if a guy goes out and he's 20-0 and he loses that 21st fight, people lose interest in him. And he becomes an afterthought. Curtis fought everybody and you couldn't help loving watching him fight. He'll be 80 years old next month. He's got to be very, very proud of a fighter like Errol Spence.

I don't know what it is about Dallas.

Texas has turned out a lot of great fighters. I don't know if it's a socioeconomic deal -- I don't know what the reason is, but Dallas has just not turned out great fighters.