{"id":327646,"date":"2025-12-04T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327646\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:45:12","slug":"manny-pacquiao-responds-after-terence-crawford-says-he-would-easily-beat-him-in-his-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327646\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao responds after Terence Crawford says he would easily beat him in his prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> has received plenty of plaudits for his victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/canelo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> this year and the Omaha-born sensation is brimming with confidence as a result. Now, his belief that he would have overcome a prime <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has drawn a response from the latter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46224012\/canelo-alvarez-terence-crawford-live-updates-boxing-results-round-round-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crawford made history when he dethroned Canelo in September<\/a>, simultaneously becoming the first three-division undisputed champion of the four-belt era and boxing\u2019s sixth five-division world champion, thus cementing his position amongst the greats of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, when six-division conqueror <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> was quizzed on how \u2018Bud\u2019 would have fared against Pacquiao, the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/de-la-hoya-on-who-would-ko-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican predicted a knockout victory for the Filipino icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outraged, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/terencecrawford\/status\/1996003073685156260?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crawford took to social media<\/a> to share his thoughts on how a showdown between he and \u2018Pac Man\u2019 would have played out.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OscarDeLaHoya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@OscarDeLaHoya<\/a> said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MannyPacquiao?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@MannyPacquiao<\/a> would have beat me because he got stopped by him. Look\u2026 I would have fucked you Pacquiao and who ever you thought would have beat me the fuck up. Just because I\u2019m responsible doesn\u2019t mean shit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/terencecrawford\/status\/1996003073685156260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@OscarDeLaHoya said @MannyPacquiao would have beat me because he got stopped by him. Look, I would have f***ed you, Pacquiao and whoever you thought would have beat me the f**k up. Just because I\u2019m responsible doesn\u2019t mean s**t.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao was quick to respond and remained as classy as ever, refusing to be dragged into a war of words.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All love champ. God bless you and your family always. \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manny Pacquiao (@MannyPacquiao) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MannyPacquiao\/status\/1996221875081318560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll love champ. God bless you and your family always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crawford is now expected to drop down to the middleweight division in search of world honours at a sixth weight, after being <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-responds-to-being-stripped\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stripped of the WBC super-middleweight crown due to unpaid sanctioning fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has received plenty of plaudits for his victory over Canelo Alvarez this year and the Omaha-born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-327646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}