{"id":350304,"date":"2025-12-17T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350304\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:01:08","slug":"terence-crawford-retires-exits-boxing-unbeaten-at-42-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350304\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford retires, exits boxing unbeaten at 42-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fresh off the biggest win of his career, American superstar Terence \u201cBud\u201d Crawford has announced his retirement from professional boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Believing he has \u201cnothing else left to prove,\u201d Crawford revealed the decision through a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave this sport everything I had. I faced the best, moved through weight classes, and made history on my own terms. 42-0. 3x undisputed. Five-division world champion. No shortcuts. No excuses,\u201d Crawford wrote.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Walking away as a great with nothing else left to prove. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CrawfordERA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CrawfordERA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1P4P?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#1P4P<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3xUndisputed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#3xUndisputed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/5DivisionChampion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#5DivisionChampion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/4xLinealChampion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#4xLinealChampion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BWAAFighterOfTheYear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BWAAFighterOfTheYear<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2xEspyAwardWinner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#2xEspyAwardWinner<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GwK3TYnIz6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/GwK3TYnIz6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4DElhAJXIg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4DElhAJXIg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terence Crawford (@terencecrawford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/terencecrawford\/status\/2001064810709205400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crawford, 38, retires with an immaculate 42-0 professional record. Widely regarded as one of the most technically proficient fighters of his generation, his crowning moment came last September when he outclassed Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez to earn a unanimous decision win in their blockbuster superfight.<\/p>\n<p>However, the World Boxing Council (WBC) stripped Crawford of the super middleweight title he won from Alvarez just two weeks ago after he failed to pay the organization\u2019s sanctioning fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery unfortunately, the WBC did not receive an acknowledgment of receipt nor any response to any of those communications,\u201d the WBC said in a statement. \u201cThe WBC had no choice but to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Omaha, Nebraska native, Crawford won world titles across multiple divisions and made history as the first boxer to become undisputed champion in three weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off the biggest win of his career, American superstar Terence \u201cBud\u201d Crawford has announced his retirement from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82,13036],"class_list":{"0":"post-350304","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","12":"tag-terence-crawford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350304","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=350304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}