{"id":181310,"date":"2025-10-06T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:53:08","slug":"i-like-who-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181310\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Like Who I Like’"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was already considered a terrific fighter but after beating Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, many believe Terence Crawford<\/a> entered the all-time great category.<\/p>\n

Not everyone, however, gives him that credit.<\/p>\n

Some called it a suicide mission when Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) decided to move up two divisions to face Alvarez<\/a> (63-3-2, 39 KOs) for his undisputed super middleweight throne.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite how many people told him he lost his mind, and regardless of the tens of thousands who booed him at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sept. 13, he went out and got it done.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Since then, Crawford has found himself on even his biggest critics’ Mount. Rushmores. For those who aren\u2019t familiar, a Mt. Rushmore consists of four all-time great fighters\/players, depending on the sport.<\/p>\n

Jaron Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs 1 NC) recently gave Crawford credit<\/a> for becoming the first man to grab undisputed glory in three separate weight divisions. But in terms of his own Mt. Rushmore? Crawford didn\u2019t make the cut.
\u201cI like Roy Jones, Floyd Mayweather<\/a>, Pernell Whitaker<\/a>, Sugar Ray Leonard, I\u2019m watching a little bit of him, and James Toney,\u201d Ennis told several reporters. \u201cThey’re my top guys that I’ve been watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Crawford is the man of the hour, in a few short weeks, Ennis will grab some of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Having become a unified welterweight champion at Eimantas Stanionis’ expense in April<\/a>, the smooth switch-hitter confirmed he’d be moving up in weight. The 28-year-old dropped his Ring, IBF and WBA belts in preparation for his 154-pound homecoming debut, which comes against Uisma Lima on Oct. 11 at Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena.
Ennis has wanted to face Crawford for the better part of two years. As time has passed, the potential for that fight materialising has become increasingly unrealistic<\/a>. With the future Hall of Famer winding down his career, he’s keen to rack up more accolades elsewhere.<\/p>\n

However no matter what he does, it appears unlikely that Ennis will view him in as high regard as most do.<\/p>\n

“I like who I like,” Ennis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was already considered a terrific fighter but after beating Canelo Alvarez, many believe Terence Crawford entered the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-181310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}