{"id":529681,"date":"2026-03-11T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529681\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:40:07","slug":"mike-tyson-rates-terence-crawfords-chances-against-the-four-kings-leonard-duran-hagler-and-hearns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529681\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson rates Terence Crawford’s chances against the Four Kings Leonard, Duran, Hagler and Hearns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tyson<\/a> has assessed Terence Crawford<\/a>\u2019s chances against the Four Kings, determining how successful \u2018Bud\u2019 would have been in such a competitive era.<\/p>\n

With Crawford calling time on his decorated career<\/a> last December, after becoming a five-division world champion, many have wondered how he would fare against the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard<\/a>, Marvin Hagler<\/a>, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During this iconic era, all four of champions competed at the highest level for a number of years, with Leonard, Hearns and Duran campaigning across multiple weight classes.<\/p>\n

Hagler, meanwhile, remained at 160lbs for the entirety of his career, making 12 successful world title defences before losing a controversial split decision to Leonard<\/a> in 1987.<\/p>\n

During his near seven-year reign, though, \u2018Marvelous\u2019 scored a unanimous decision victory over Duran and stopped Hearns in the third round of a firefight which, for many, stands alone as the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n

As for the other Four Kings, who also campaigned at welter, super-welter and super-middleweight, it could be said that their careers are closer aligned with that of Crawford\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the weight class, though, former heavyweight champion Tyson has told Ring Magazine<\/a> that Crawford would have shone brightly in the Four Kings era.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would have been some beautiful fighting. There were people back then that weren\u2019t as good as [Crawford] was, [but they] were champions.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would\u2019ve done good [in that era].\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite never previously fighting at super-middleweight, Crawford was able to dethrone Canelo Alvarez and become a three-division undisputed champion last September.<\/p>\n

His greatest success, however, arguably came at 147lbs, where the American halted seven opponents before engineering a destructive ninth-round finish over Errol Spence Jr in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson has assessed Terence Crawford\u2019s chances against the Four Kings, determining how successful \u2018Bud\u2019 would have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-529681","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\/529681","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=529681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}