Daily Mail Boxing<\/a>, Prograis relayed Crawford\u2019s words about being in trouble against former Olympian Yuriorkis Gamboa, believing he was susceptible to the Cuban\u2019s shots due to cutting weight.<\/p>\n\u201cTerence Crawford went up two divisions and he still took shots from Canelo. He said \u2018the only time I\u2019ve been hurt was by [Yuriorkis] Gamboa and that was when I was at 135, I was too small. I\u2019ve been in the gym, sparring these big guys and the punches don\u2019t do nothing.\u2019 So, really the extra weight is a benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crawford clashed with Gamboa in 2014 as the first defence of his WBO lightweight world title \u2013 a tricky test for any new champion given the Cuban\u2019s skillset and impressive amateur pedigree.<\/p>\n
Though the champion scored four knockdowns in total on his way to a ninth round stoppage, in that final round he was caught and wobbled himself. Gamboa then went for the kill but was ultimately punished for it when Crawford survived the storm.<\/p>\n
Crawford, who stayed on his feet despite the big right hand, would not hit the canvas in his entire campaign, although many feel a knee touching down against Egidijus \u2018Mean Machine\u2019 Kavaliauskas was incorrectly ruled a slip.<\/p>\n
As for Gamboa, his pro career never quite lived up its considerable hype. Alongside issues outside of the ropes, the Cuban lost his last three to Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis and Isaac Cruz. In 2026, he plans a combat comeback, recently announcing his sighing with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford hung up the gloves late last year as a five-weight world champion and future Hall of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-547719","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\/547719","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=547719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}