{"id":344635,"date":"2025-12-14T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344635\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:23:07","slug":"hall-of-fame-legend-says-hed-have-ended-terence-crawfords-unbeaten-run-hes-lucky-we-didnt-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344635\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame legend says he’d have ended Terence Crawford’s unbeaten run: “He’s lucky we didn’t fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a> have operated in four of the same weight divisions and, while their careers never crossed paths, the question now is whether that could yet change.<\/p>\n

In August 2021, Pacquiao\u2019s defeat to Yordenis Ugas for the WBA welterweight title appeared to signal the end of the Filipino icon\u2019s phenomenal career. A few months later, Crawford continued his rise towards greatness, stopping Shawn Porter in the 10th round to retain his WBO welterweight title.<\/p>\n

Already undisputed at 140lbs, Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) has since gone on to repeat the feat at welterweight and again at super-middleweight. Pacquiao, meanwhile, ended his retirement earlier this year and came close to upsetting Mario Barrios in a bid to win the WBC welterweight title at the age of 46.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame earlier this year<\/a>, looks set to continue his career, with an announcement on his future believed to be imminent, while Crawford must decide whether to remain at 168lbs or move weight once more.<\/p>\n

Crawford recently suggested that he would have beaten Pacquiao<\/a> had they ever shared a ring, prompting a typically gracious response from the eight-division world champion. However, when ES News<\/a> revisited the comment, Pacquiao\u2019s tone was noticeably less diplomatic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s lucky that he didn\u2019t fight me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an era where Jake Paul is preparing to face Anthony Joshua, it is hard to rule anything out entirely. A Crawford\u2013Pacquiao catchweight super-fight remains unlikely, but not impossible \u2014 particularly if \u201cBud\u201d decides to fan the flames further with a few well-chosen words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford and Manny Pacquiao have operated in four of the same weight divisions and, while their careers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-344635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344635","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=344635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}