{"id":882626,"date":"2026-09-06T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882626\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:42:09","slug":"eddie-hearn-convinced-terence-crawford-will-end-retirement-to-face-one-champion-i-think-itll-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882626\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn convinced Terence Crawford will end retirement to face one champion: “I think it’ll happen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> hung up the gloves back in December but Eddie Hearn believes that the five-weight world champion will soon end that retirement.<\/p>\n

Crawford last competed in September 2025 when he moved up to 168lbs and pulled off an incredible victory over Canelo Alvarez to become undisputed super-middleweight champion, before announcing his retirement three months later.<\/a><\/p>\n

Crawford has been linked to bouts with various names since then but as of yet there are no signs that the 38-year-old will reverse his decision, but Matchroom promoter Hearn has told The Ring<\/a> that he believes a possible fight with Jaron Ennis could soon change that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve wanted this fight for so long. I rate Crawford so highly but I\u2019m just such a huge believer in Jaron Ennis, and I think this will be the fight that will be the biggest fight in boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoots is probably going to fight Josh Kelly and has to see if he can beat him, if he beats him he\u2019ll fight Fundora, and if he becomes undisputed I think the Crawford fight will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s an unbelievable fight. Boots is a superstar, he\u2019s paving his way. Crawford is the ultimate competitor, his body is breaking down and maybe he won\u2019t fight again but at the same time he\u2019s the ultimate competitor. I know he\u2019s looking at Boots up and down and thinking \u2018I\u2019ll do you\u2019, so we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford and Ennis recently had a back and forth<\/a> on the broadcast of the Andy Ruiz vs Damian Knyba fight on Friday, which has fuelled the recent speculation over a potential meeting.<\/p>\n

After becoming unified world champion at welterweight, Ennis stepped up to 154lbs and won the WBA and WBO titles back in June with a seventh round TKO win over Xander Zayas.<\/p>\n

As Hearn mentioned, a clash with IBF champion Josh Kelly appears to be next, before a possible meeting with WBC champion Sebastian Fundora, and only time will tell whether a victory there would be enough to tempt \u2018Bud\u2019 out of retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford hung up the gloves back in December but Eddie Hearn believes that the five-weight world champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-882626","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\/882626","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=882626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}