{"id":398350,"date":"2026-01-09T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:12:07","slug":"prince-naseem-hamed-delivers-ko-verdict-on-mayweather-vs-crawford-he-had-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398350\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Naseem Hamed delivers KO verdict on Mayweather vs Crawford: “He had something else”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has secured his place as an all-time great and \u2018Prince\u2019 Naseem Hamed has been the latest former fighter to predict whether \u2018Bud\u2019 could have become the first to defeat Floyd Mayweather if their timelines aligned.<\/p>\n

Crawford became the first three-division undisputed champion since Henry Armstrong when he sensationally dethroned long-reigning super-middleweight superstar Canelo Alvarez<\/a> back in September, despite being a former lightweight world champion.<\/p>\n

After the victory, the Omaha-born phenomenon was linked to a move to middleweight, where he could have claimed a world title in a sixth weight division, but the 38-year-old instead opted to end his career on a high and hang up the gloves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a result, the career of Crawford has been heralded in recent months, and his all-time pound-for-pound ranking has been up for debate.<\/p>\n

Speaking to talkSPORT<\/a>, \u2018Naz\u2019 explained why he believes Crawford could have potentially knocked out Floyd Mayweather if they collided in their primes, when quizzed on the fantasy match-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know something? Terence Crawford, for me, he had something else on a lot of other fighters, not only technically, and his boxing brain, his boxing IQ, but he had some within strength.<\/p>\n

Some strength that was within. That was physical. You\u2019d see him grab somebody and throw them across the room; that\u2019s four or five times bigger than him.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve never been asked this question. I\u2019ve never really thought about it, but there would be a possibility of him knocking Floyd out.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind, though, Floyd\u2019s skills were on such a level in his prime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite often being compared to \u2018TBE\u2019, Crawford has always championed the skills of Mayweather, labelling him as \u2018The GOAT of right now\u2019<\/a> when asked where Mayweather ranks when compared to his fellow boxing legends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has secured his place as an all-time great and \u2018Prince\u2019 Naseem Hamed has been the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-398350","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\/398350","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=398350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}