Terence Crawford is stepping away from the ring, but don\u2019t expect him to step into a cage anytime soon.<\/p>\n
The undefeated 38-year-old recently announced he was retiring from boxing, putting a cap on a legendary career that saw him go 42-0 and capture world titles across five different weight classes. Crawford\u2019s final fight was a mega matchup with fellow superstar Canelo Alvarez in September, a bout Crawford won via a convincing 12-round unanimous decision.<\/p>\n
Given he likely still has plenty left in the tank physically and his background in wrestling, fans have often wondered if Crawford would consider a move to MMA. But until MMA fighter pay goes up, Crawford is passing on that option.<\/p>\n
\u201cNah,\u201d Crawford said flatly, responding to a fan question on an Adin Ross<\/a> Kick stream. \u201cNah, they don\u2019t pay enough. \u2026 Man, you get messed up in wrestling, just in general. To do wrestling, kicking, boxing, and elbowing, man, you can have it.\u201d<\/p>\n Crawford is widely regarded as one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters of his era, with numerous high-profile championship victories, including a 2023 masterclass against Errol Spence Jr., who was considered Crawford\u2019s most difficult matchup at the time. Ahead of Crawford\u2019s fight with Canelo, UFC star Ilia Topuria boasted he could knock out Crawford, which drew an amused response from the boxer, who admitted he\u2019d never even watched Topuria\u2019s fights<\/a>.<\/p>\n And as of now? He still hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cListen, this is crazy,\u201d Crawford said of Topuria. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen this dude fight. Never, not once. I\u2019m going to have to watch him on YouTube, I swear to God, I have never seen this dude fight.\u201d<\/p>\n That said, Crawford is a professed MMA fan, and he can name at least two fighters he admires even if Topuria doesn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n \u201cJon Jones and Khabib [Nurmagomedov], hands down,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cThey\u2019re my guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford is stepping away from the ring, but don\u2019t expect him to step into a cage anytime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,711,49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-386143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386143","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=386143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}