{"id":540483,"date":"2026-03-16T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540483\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:54:07","slug":"hall-of-famer-says-he-was-better-than-terence-crawford-you-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540483\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer says he was better than Terence Crawford: “You know that”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> is viewed by many as being one of the best fighters in modern history but one recent Hall of Fame inductee ranks himself even higher than \u2018Bud.\u2019<\/p>\n

Crawford retired from the sport in December<\/a> following his historic win over Canelo Alvarez<\/a> three months prior to become undisputed super-middleweight champion.<\/p>\n

That was the third division that \u2018Bud\u2019 has been the sole ruler of, after previous undisputed reigns at super-lightweight and welterweight. It was at 147lbs where another of his iconic wins came, as he picked up a stoppage victory over Errol Spence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Crawford retired with a perfect 42-0 record, but despite that, three-weight world champion James Toney told FightHype<\/a> that he believes he was better than his countryman.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looked good, alright, but it wasn\u2019t no James Toney performance, you know that. Every time that I fought on the big stage, [Iran] Barkley, [Evander] Holyfield, John Ruiz and countless others \u2013 I am dominating them.<\/p>\n

Terence Crawford, I love Terence Crawford, but he didn\u2019t even do what I did. He didn\u2019t do it, but he won 12 rounds. I did damage, I stopped people, I knocked people out, that is why they called me \u2018Lights Out\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toney won world titles at middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight, and did become world heavyweight champion at one stage, though that that reign became void after he failed a drugs test.<\/p>\n

His final record read 77 wins from 92 fights, leading to his Hall of Fame induction in 2022, something that will also be a formality for Crawford in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford is viewed by many as being one of the best fighters in modern history but one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-540483","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\/540483","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=540483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}