{"id":120211,"date":"2025-09-04T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120211\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:04:07","slug":"terence-crawford-makes-head-scratching-pick-for-best-boxer-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120211\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford makes head-scratching pick for best boxer in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Crawford picks former UFC champ over Ilia Topuria, Max Holloway for best MMA boxer<\/p>\n<p>In a recent appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nkFhj4UqyVc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Full Send Podcast<\/a>, Crawford pointed to former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt as MMA\u2019s top boxer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my guy, Cody [Garbrandt],\u201d Crawford said. \u201cHe\u2019s the best UFC boxer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCody\u2019s got those hands. But I\u2019m saying, when you\u2019re talking about straight boxing, we ain\u2019t talking about nothing else, we\u2019re talking about straight boxing skills, I just think Cody\u2019s got the best boxing skills in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s just my opinion.\u201d (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/boxing\/402312\/terence-crawford-reveals-surprising-choice-for-best-ufc-boxer-and-its-not-ilia-topuria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMA Fighting<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Garbrandt\u2019s boxing was on full display when he defeated Dominick Cruz for the UFC bantamweight title at UFC 207. It\u2019s regarded as one of the most lopsided wins by a title challenger in UFC history.<\/p>\n<p>Garbrandt\u2019s career has been at a standstill since the Cruz fight. He\u2019s lost seven of his last 10 fights since UFC 207, including his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/cody-garbrandt-reacts-following-ufc-atlanta-loss-to-raoni-barcelos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most recent defeat to Raoni Barcelos<\/a> at UFC Atlanta in June.<\/p>\n<p>Garbrandt is expected to return to the Octagon later this year as he looks to get back into the bantamweight title conversation. As for Crawford, he\u2019ll look to cement his legacy with a win over Alvarez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford picks former UFC champ over Ilia Topuria, Max Holloway for best MMA boxer In a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,66675,638,82,13036,640],"class_list":["post-120211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cody-garbrandt","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}