{"id":564484,"date":"2026-03-27T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564484\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:19:07","slug":"terence-crawford-admits-one-man-ranks-above-him-as-the-greatest-ever-thats-his-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564484\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford admits one man ranks above him as the greatest ever: “That’s his spot”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> considers himself the greatest fighter of his generation, but admits the all-time number one spot belongs to another man.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old called time on his glittering career last December, several months after he became a three-division undisputed champion against Canelo Alvarez.<\/p>\n

Prior to their September showdown, many questioned whether Crawford, who claimed his first world title at 135lbs, would have the frame to compete at super-middleweight.<\/p>\n

As it happened, though, the masterful technician was able to outbox Canelo through large spells of their contest, before claiming a convincing unanimous decision victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his career, Crawford unified all four major titles at 147lbs by producing a surprisingly dominant performance against Errol Spence Jr<\/a>, stopping him with a ninth-round onslaught in 2023.<\/p>\n

As a five-weight world champion, \u2018Bud\u2019 is now regarded as one of the most accomplished fighters of his era, while also going down as an all-time great.<\/p>\n

But while Crawford agrees with how his legacy is perceived by others, he ultimately believes that Muhammad Ali<\/a> was the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in history.<\/p>\n

In an interview on the The Rich Eisen Show<\/a>, which was recorded ahead of his retirement, the American insisted that the all-time No.1 spot still belongs to Ali.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo [I\u2019m not the greatest of all time]. I do think I\u2019m the best right now but, the greatest of all time \u2013 that\u2019s Muhammad Ali\u2019s spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali is a popular choice in the \u201cgreatest ever\u201d debate, having fought and defeated many of the top heavyweights of his era, including Joe Frazier and Sonny Liston, as well as securing a famous upset victory over George Foreman in the bout billed as the \u201cRumble in the Jungle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford considers himself the greatest fighter of his generation, but admits the all-time number one spot belongs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-564484","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\/564484","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=564484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}