{"id":850914,"date":"2026-08-08T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850914\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:40:14","slug":"terence-crawford-vs-mayweather-chavez-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850914\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford vs Mayweather: Chavez Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is, according to Julio Cesar Chavez, only one fighter who could have beaten Terence Crawford \u2014 and it is Floyd Mayweather. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/julio-cesar-chavez-on-crawford-match-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chavez told Luis Parra<\/a> that Mayweather\u2019s defensive brilliance and style would have been enough to hand \u2018Bud\u2019 the first loss of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crawford retired undefeated in December, capping a remarkable run by adding Canelo Alvarez to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxing-social.com\/news\/terence-crawford-honest-on-errol-spence-comeback-boxing-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an all-time r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/a> that already boasted Errol Spence Jr, Shawn Porter, Kell Brook and Amir Khan, plus undisputed reigns at super-lightweight, welterweight and super-middleweight. Inevitably, debate has since turned to the fights that never happened \u2014 and to the fantasy match-ups that will forever divide the boxing world.<\/p>\n<p>I think that styles make fights, you know. Crawford is a great fighter, but if you look at who he has beaten, he has only beaten Canelo.<\/p>\n<p>Would Mayweather Really Have Beaten Terence Crawford?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A meeting was never realistic. Mayweather walked away 50-0 after returning for wins over Andre Berto and Conor McGregor, while Crawford was still establishing himself at super-lightweight. Fans will never get a definitive answer, but Chavez has made his stance clear: Mayweather\u2019s style, he believes, would have preserved that unbeaten record while inflicting Crawford\u2019s first professional defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is, according to Julio Cesar Chavez, only one fighter who could have beaten Terence Crawford \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,30209,55719,82,13036],"class_list":["post-850914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-floyd-mayweather","tag-julio-cesar-chavez","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850914","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=850914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}