{"id":578404,"date":"2026-04-02T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578404\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:57:08","slug":"terence-crawford-says-two-undefeated-fighters-avoided-him-they-dropped-out-the-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578404\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford says two undefeated fighters avoided him: &#8220;They dropped out the rankings\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> remains unwilling to return to the sport after his December retirement, but has named the two active and undefeated fan-favourite fighters that swerved a showdown with him when he was campaigning as a welterweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bud\u2019 captured the WBO welterweight world title back in 2018 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/23749190\/terence-crawford-beats-jeff-horn-tko-9th-round\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he knocked out Australian Manny Pacquiao-conqueror Jeff Horn<\/a> and he defended that belt on six occasions before his legendary undisputed title win against Errol Spence Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The Omaha operator then moved up to the super-welterweight division and dethroned Israil Madrimov for the WBA super-welterweight crown on his way up to the super-middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Up at 168lbs, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-defines-career-with-remarkable-canelo-alvarez-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crawford decisioned Canelo Alvarez in a legacy-defining win<\/a>, becoming boxing\u2019s sixth five-division world champion, joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather and Pacquiao in that extremely elite club.<\/p>\n<p>However, in an clip captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OURBgVtTw4A?si=VX-ah6U0ItprpKBH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jai McAllister<\/a>, Crawford revealed that he was willing to face the up-and-comers during his welterweight reign, but that Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis and Vergil Ortiz Jr. avoided a shot at his WBO strap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the opportunity to fight Boots but Boots chose to drop out of the WBO rankings, him and Vergil [Ortiz Jr.]. So that is why I ended up fighting Shawn Porter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ennis is a former unified welterweight world champion while Ortiz is the reigning WBC interim super-welterweight champion. The pair looked to be on a collision course with one another, but issues between Ortiz and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya ended those plans.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u2018Boots\u2019 will attempt to become a two-division world champion when he challenges WBA and WBO titleholder Xander Zayas at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on June 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford remains unwilling to return to the sport after his December retirement, but has named the two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-578404","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\/578404","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=578404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}