{"id":573876,"date":"2026-03-31T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:04:11","slug":"terence-crawford-reveals-dangerous-fight-hed-have-considered-before-retiring-from-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573876\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Reveals ‘Dangerous’ Fight He’d Have Considered Before Retiring From Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was one fight Terence Crawford was seemingly prepared to consider before he announced his retirement from boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American fighter removed his gloves for the final time of his career in 2025 when he outfoxed Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez over 12 rounds, arguably the finest performance of his career even including the all-time great thrashing he gave Errol Spence Jr. in a welterweight unification that had been billed as a 50-50 contest.<\/p>\n

Victory over Canelo advanced his pro record to 42-0 (31 KOs) and ensured he picked up the major world championship belts at super middleweight to become a five-weight world boxing champ.<\/p>\n

And if he were to ever return to the ring for a 43rd fight, it would perhaps have made sense to drop from 168 pounds to 160, and campaign for a title at middleweight, in what would have been his sixth weight class.<\/p>\n

According to \u2018Bud,\u2019 when speaking to Jai McAllister on YouTube<\/a>, there was a \u201cdangerous\u201d fight there he contemplated taking in that division, but it all fell apart only recently.<\/p>\n

After he beat Canelo, \u201cI was like well, go down to 160 and do it again\u201d to win a championship in a sixth weight class, and become undisputed champion in four divisions. \u201cBut Janibek [Alimkhanuly, WBO and IBF champion] popped.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Janibek posted negative drug test results instead of flagging for the banned substance meldonium, then he\u2019d have proceeded to a unification fight against Erislandy Lara in a bout that would have rewarded the winner with three of the middleweight world championship titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a thought\u201d Crawford admits he had, to go drop to 160 and challenge the winner of that fight. \u201cTo dare to be great and fight for something meaningful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Crawford continued: \u201cEven though their names wasn\u2019t the biggest \u2026 that\u2019s what we do it for.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cJanibek is a dangerous challenge.\u201d <\/p>\n

Crawford continued: \u201cI knew, going over there, fighting Janibek, people would\u2019ve been tuning in to that type of fight. Especially if had somehow beat Carlos Adames, and [became the] undisputed [champion]. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen you [have a fight] undisputed vs undisputed. It didn\u2019t happen. So, you know what, I was like this is God telling me you ain\u2019t got nothing left to prove.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alan Dawson is Boxing Social’s editor.
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\nHe is also a columnist for Uncrowned at Yahoo Sports, and the founder-moderator of Boxing Twitter \u2014 a 20,000-strong community on X.
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\nA 17-year sports media veteran, Alan has enjoyed extensive stints at Business Insider as a correspondent, BT Sport as digital editor, and Give Me Sport as combat sports editor.
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\nHe is a 2-time Sports Journalist of the Year finalist and has been honored six times by the Boxing Writers Association of America.
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\nAlan grew up near London but is based in Nevada with his young family. Outside boxing he plays 8-handicap golf, hikes, and rides his ebike through the Sierra mountain trails.<\/p>\n

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