Spence was born on March 3, 1990, on Long Island, New York, to a father of Jamaican descent and a mother of African-American descent, and the family relocated to DeSoto, Texas, a suburb south of Dallas, when he was around seven years old (Wikipedia). He began boxing at age 15 and quickly built a reputation in the Dallas amateur scene that carried him to the top of USA Boxing’s welterweight rankings within a few years. He is the father of two daughters and a son, and has lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for most of his life.

Spence won the U.S. National Golden Gloves title in 2009 and captured three consecutive national amateur welterweight championships between 2009 and 2011, finishing his amateur career with a record of 135 wins against 12 losses (Wikipedia). He represented the United States at the 2012 London Olympics, losing in the quarter-finals to Russia’s Andrey Zamkovoy after also falling short at the 2011 World Championships, and turned professional later that year, stopping Jonathan Garcia in the third round of his debut on November 9, 2012, at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. ESPN named him its Prospect of the Year in 2015 as he moved through the paid ranks largely on knockout power, setting up his first world title shot.

Spence claimed his first world title on May 27, 2017, stopping IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook in the 11th round in Brook’s hometown of Sheffield, England, a rare title win on foreign soil for an American boxer (Wikipedia). He defended the belt twice in 2018, against Lamont Peterson and Carlos Ocampo, before his career was nearly cut short: in the early hours of October 10, 2019, Spence crashed his Ferrari 488 Spider in Dallas after the car veered over a median at high speed and flipped multiple times, ejecting him from the vehicle; he was hospitalized for six days with facial lacerations but no broken bones (ESPN). He returned 14 months later, on December 5, 2020, and won a clear unanimous decision over Danny Garcia to retain his titles, a comeback widely covered as one of the more remarkable in recent boxing history.

Spence unified his IBF title with the WBC belt via a split decision over Shawn Porter in September 2019, then added the WBA (Super) title with a 10th-round stoppage of Yordenis Ugás in April 2022, leaving him holding three of the four welterweight belts (Wikipedia). That set up a July 29, 2023 undisputed-championship unification bout against WBO titleholder Terence Crawford at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, which Crawford won by ninth-round TKO after building a 79-70 lead on all three scorecards, handing Spence the first loss of his career and stripping him of his three titles (Wikipedia).

The Crawford fight was one of the biggest pay-per-view events in recent boxing history, drawing at least 650,000 buys and grossing roughly $55 million, with a live gate at T-Mobile Arena exceeding $20 million, figures that underline how large Spence’s drawing power was even in defeat (Bleacher Report). After three years out of the ring, he returned on July 25, 2026, moving up two weight classes to challenge former champion Tim Tszyu in a middleweight bout in Sydney, Australia, a comeback that drew significant attention as a test of whether he had anything left; Tszyu won by clear unanimous decision, and Spence announced his retirement afterward, saying he was thankful to leave the sport with his family by his side (DraftKings Network).

Spence’s commercial profile has likewise stayed close to the ring itself: his fights aired on Showtime pay-per-view through most of his prime and, for his 2026 comeback against Tim Tszyu, on DAZN and Prime Video pay-per-view, but no major individually branded sponsorship or apparel endorsement deal for Spence was found publicly disclosed in the reporting reviewed for this profile (DraftKings Network). That pattern sets him apart from contemporaries who have layered beverage, apparel, or equipment endorsement income on top of their purses.

Unlike boxers who build promotional companies or media ventures alongside their careers, Spence’s earnings have run almost entirely through his fight purses under adviser Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions structure rather than through outside business interests (Premier Boxing Champions). No publicly documented company, ownership stake, or independent promotional venture tied to Spence was found in the sourcing for this profile.

Spence has not disclosed a specific home purchase price, but Premier Boxing Champions has reported that after the 2019 crash he prioritized a quieter family life on a roughly 60-acre property outside DeSoto, Texas, that includes cattle, horses, and goats (Premier Boxing Champions). His most publicized asset remains the Ferrari 488 Spider destroyed in the 2019 accident, and his social media has otherwise shown a Range Rover and other vehicles typical of a champion boxer’s garage, though no individual vehicle purchase price has been independently verified (Heavy).