{"id":864813,"date":"2026-08-22T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864813\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:48:08","slug":"adrien-broner-predicts-prime-manny-pacquiao-vs-terence-crawford-hes-got-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864813\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner predicts prime Manny Pacquiao vs Terence Crawford: “He’s got power”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having previously fought and lost to Manny Pacquiao, Adrien Broner has considered how his former foe would fare in a prime-for-prime battle with Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

The two all-time greats were in talks to collide in 2021, only for Pacquiao to schedule a clash with Errol Spence Jr before losing his WBA title to replacement opponent Yordenis Ugas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But even if he had fought Crawford, the Filipino icon was hardly in his prime following back-to-back points victories over Broner and Keith Thurman.<\/p>\n

Instead, many consider his peak to be around 2009, back when he scored vicious stoppages over Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto.<\/p>\n

Crawford, meanwhile, was arguably in his prime when he fought Spence in 2023, becoming the undisputed welterweight king with a dominant ninth-round finish.<\/p>\n

All eight of his 147lb outings, in fact, resulted in stoppages where \u2018Bud\u2019 utilised his freakish 75in reach and proved the superior technician.<\/p>\n

Broner, therefore, has told FightHype<\/a> that he believes Crawford would be too skilled for a remarkably fast and ferocious Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrawford [would win]. I just think he\u2019s too technical. First of all he\u2019s sharp, he don\u2019t fade [in the later rounds], he\u2019s long and he got power \u2026\u00a0 Timing beats speed any day.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Pacquiao famously became an eight-division world champion, five of them lineal, Crawford retired in December after having won all four belts in three weight classes.<\/p>\n

He was also the consensus top dog at 135lbs and held a major super-welterweight belt, yet most would sooner applaud his undisputed title reigns.<\/p>\n

In particular, his victories over Spence and Canelo Alvarez, who he unanimously outpointed in September<\/a>, will almost certainly see him secure a place in the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having previously fought and lost to Manny Pacquiao, Adrien Broner has considered how his former foe would fare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-864813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864813","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=864813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}