{"id":874375,"date":"2026-08-28T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874375\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:20:09","slug":"crawford-visits-ukraine-meets-zelenskyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874375\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawford Visits Ukraine, Meets Zelenskyy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/terence-crawford\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> traveled to Ukraine this week to show support for the country&#8217;s boxing community and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gifting him an American Pitbull puppy during a brief photo session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/XK3gv5yXxrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/XK3gv5yXxrU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The visit came shortly after Crawford was spotted training with former coach Brian &#8220;BoMac&#8221; McIntyre and undefeated fighter Lester Martinez, sparking comeback rumors that McIntyre later downplayed, saying Crawford was simply &#8220;enjoying the club environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crawford retired undefeated at 42-0 after becoming undisputed <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> champion with a win over Canelo Alvarez in September 2025, making him the only male boxer to become undisputed champion in four weight classes. He has remained a vocal supporter of Ukraine throughout its war with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford traveled to Ukraine this week to show support for the country&#8217;s boxing community and met with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-874375","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\/874375","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=874375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}