Watch Errol Spence Jr’s son learning to box aged ONE as champ brings kids to gym so they ‘see where food comes from’

FOR Errol Spence Jr boxing is a family affair - with even his one-year-old son beginning to learn the ropes.

Spence, who fights Yordenis Ugas on April 16, is the current unified welterweight world champion but also a father-of-three.

For the Texan, being one of the best boxers in the world goes hand-in-hand with raising his daughters Ivy, six, Violet, five, and son Errol Spence III.

But life for the unbeaten American would never be the same after October 2020 when he welcomed his first son into the world.

Opening up to SunSport, Spence says: “It’s changed a lot. You have to change a lot, I feel like a son is different.

“When he’s in the gym he’s actually trying to box and trying to imitate what everybody is doing.

“My daughters weren’t really doing that, they were just running around, playing and doing different things like that. He’s like really trying to box.”

Boxing regiments of the past often saw fighters vacant from their families' life for an entire training camp, which can last months.

But Spence, 32, adopts a new-school attitude, choosing to stay in his home of Texas, with coach Derrick James, who he first met aged 16.

He also brings his kids to work - where they run riot in James' World Class Boxing Gym - and Spence knows there is a method behind the madness.

He says: “I want my kids to see where the food comes from.

“My kids might say, ‘Daddy, you always going to the gym. Or, ‘Daddy, you always running’. Things like that.

“And I’ll say, ‘Where do you think the food comes from? Where do you think your clothes come from?’

“I want to show them first hand hard work and they might not realise it now but once they get older and think about it, it’ll be like, ‘Man, daddy really worked hard to get us where we’re at’."