{"id":575379,"date":"2026-04-01T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575379\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:25:20","slug":"terence-crawford-admits-there-is-one-man-he-wishes-hed-faced-before-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575379\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford admits there is one man he wishes he&#8217;d faced before retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famed for his willingness to fight and his desperation for legacy, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> retired as an undefeated pound-for-pound great just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>However, when reflecting on his career, there is one opponent whom \u2018Bud\u2019 wishes he could have fought.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford became boxing\u2019s third four-belt undisputed champion when he trumped Julius Indongo to take control of all four titles back in August 2017, before repeating the feat up at welterweight six years later with a dominant beatdown of Errol Spence Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, Crawford then made the sizeable jump up to super-middleweight, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-defines-career-with-remarkable-canelo-alvarez-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dethroned long-reigning 168lb superstar Canelo Alvarez<\/a> to become the first three-division undisputed titleholder since Henry Armstrong in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the Omaha operator announced his retirement from the sport, hanging up the gloves with a record of 42-0 at the age of 38 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of his success, Crawford admitted that the man he most wishes he could have fought is boxing\u2019s only eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZMq6Gp6uRnQ?si=N79qriN5J_lDhi6h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clip captured by Jai McAllister<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPacquiao, for sure. 1000%.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I tried to fight Pacquiao for [so long]. That was a fight that I was chasing for years, since I was 140lbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see him fight [Adrien] Broner, Tim Bradley, Keith Thurman and all of those fights. I was like, man, what is going on. These guys is not [on my level].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am [up] here, [on a level above,] and he was fighting these guys. I just couldn\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Crawford has retired, Pacquiao remains active, still competing at 47.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45780217\/manny-pacquiao-46-battles-mario-barrios-majority-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cPacMan\u201d faced then\u2013WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios and was widely considered unlucky not to claim the title after the judges ruled the bout a draw<\/a>. The Filipino legend is now set for a September rematch against former rival Floyd Mayweather, with the fight scheduled to take place in Las Vegas and stream live on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famed for his willingness to fight and his desperation for legacy, Terence Crawford retired as an undefeated pound-for-pound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-575379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575379","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=575379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}