{"id":351049,"date":"2025-12-17T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351049\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:24:10","slug":"terence-crawford-announces-retirement-from-boxing-three-months-after-making-history-and-leaves-undefeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351049\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford announces retirement from boxing three months after making history, and leaves undefeated &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Crawford, 38-year-old American boxer, has announced his retirement, ending his career &#8220;with nothing else left to prove&#8221;, and leaving the sport unbeaten: 42 fights, 42 wins, 31 of them by KO since his professional career began in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford, born in Omaha, Nebraska, won 18 major world championships in five weight classes, from lightweight to super middleweight. His last fight was last September, when he beat S\u00e1ul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; \u00c1lvarez in points in Las Vegas and won the WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and IBF super-middleweight titles, becoming the first male fighter in the four-belt era tol hold the undisputed championship in three divisions (light welterweight, welterweight, super middleweight).<\/p>\n<p>However, he was stripped of the WBC super-middleweight title earlier in December over failure to pay a required sanctioning fee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/terencecrawford\/status\/2001064810709205400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m stepping away from competition, not because I&#8217;m done fighting but because I&#8217;ve won a different kind of battle. The one where you walk away on your own terms&#8221; Crawford said in a YouTube video explaining his decision. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t goodbye, this is the end of one fight and the beginning of another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1649933-4669163\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/91\/_4669163b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/91\/_4669163_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1649933','4669163',false,'c3d5968d455c61b8928b0a99c0d2ca18');\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Terence Crawford announces retirement from boxing three months after making history, and leaves undefeated\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-e795e146c06be68c1f361099-=\"\"\/>Aspects and Angles \/ Shutterstock<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford, 38-year-old American boxer, has announced his retirement, ending his career &#8220;with nothing else left to prove&#8221;,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-351049","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\/351049","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=351049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}