{"id":460347,"date":"2026-02-07T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460347\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:13:52","slug":"terence-crawford-rates-his-legacy-against-mayweather-and-roy-jones-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460347\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford rates his legacy against Mayweather and Roy Jones Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following his retirement, Terence Crawford<\/a> is being placed into many fans\u2019 list as one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters since the turn of the millennium. Now, \u2018Bud\u2019 has revealed how he believes he outperformed Floyd Mayweather and Roy Jones Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crawford defeated Canelo Alvarez back in September in a win that will be referenced for generations, becoming boxing\u2019s second three-division undisputed world champion, 87 years after Henry Armstrong became the first.<\/p>\n

Off the back of that career-best triumph, Crawford opted to walk away from the sport whilst he was sat atop it, hanging up the gloves with both an undefeated record after 42 fights and the status of being a five-division world champion.<\/p>\n

Reflecting upon his time in the ring, Crawford told The Pivot Podcast<\/a> of his pride in becoming the undisputed super-lightweight champion back in 2017, and why he feels he\u2019s surpassed Mayweather and Jones Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was on a mission. That mindset was, \u2018I am not celebrating this fight, because I am trying to get to that fight. That is the fight that I want to get, to show y\u2019all, these are just stepping stones\u2019, to me, in my mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI celebrated being undisputed. That was the greatest feeling ever because nobody did it in so long. I was the third person in the four-belt era to do it, nobody was thinking about or trying to become undisputed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI set my sights out, I said that I wanted all the belts. Once I did that, it was like \u2018man, Floyd didn\u2019t do this, Pacquiao didn\u2019t do this, what can they say? Roy Jones Jr, my favourite fighter, didn\u2019t do this\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got something over them, that they didn\u2019t do in their career. I\u2019m not saying that they couldn\u2019t have done it, but they didn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The undisputed super-middleweight title has since become fragmented, with Jose Armando Resendiz picking up the WBA strap and Christian Mbilli being elevated to full WBC champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hamzah Sheeraz is expected to take on 38-year-old Alem Begic<\/a> in a clash for the WBO super-middleweight title, whilst Osleys Iglesias is set to challenge for the vacant IBF title against an unnamed opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his retirement, Terence Crawford is being placed into many fans\u2019 list as one of the greatest pound-for-pound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-460347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460347","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=460347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}