{"id":884816,"date":"2026-09-08T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884816\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:00:15","slug":"eddie-hearn-tells-terence-crawford-to-his-face-that-he-should-have-lost-one-fight-in-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884816\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn tells Terence Crawford to his face that he should have lost one fight in his career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> may have retired with an unbeaten record but Eddie Hearn doesn\u2019t believe that should have been the case.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bud\u2019 hung up the gloves in December after winning all 42 of his professional fights<\/a>, becoming a five-division world champion in the process.<\/p>\n

That included the undisputed crown at light welterweight, welterweight and super middleweight, making him just the second boxer in history to become undisputed in three separate divisions.<\/p>\n

Crawford picked up a number of notable wins over the years, such as the likes of Errol Spence, Shawn Porter and most notably Canelo Alvarez in his final outing, but it is a clash from 2024 that Matchroom promoter Hearn felt \u2018Bud\u2019 should have lost.<\/p>\n

Speaking directly to the former pound-for-pound king during the TNT broadcast of the Andy Ruiz vs. Damian Knyba fight<\/a>, Hearn reflected on a Crawford bout that he promoted in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought you lost that fight against Madrimov.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford fought Israil Madrimov in his first and only appearance at 154lbs, claiming a unanimous decision victory to earn the WBA super welterweight title, though it proved to be a much closer contest than many fans expected.<\/p>\n

The three judges scored the fight 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112 in Crawford\u2019s favour, and whilst most onlookers felt that was probably the correct outcome, Hearn was promoting Madrimov in the bout, so it isn\u2019t a surprise that he still believes \u2018Bud\u2019 was fortunate.<\/p>\n

Hearn wasn\u2019t the only one to have an exchange with Crawford during the Ruiz vs. Knyba event, with two-weight world champion Jaron Ennis also involved in a war of words with the retired star.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford may have retired with an unbeaten record but Eddie Hearn doesn\u2019t believe that should have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-884816","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\/884816","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=884816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}