{"id":213878,"date":"2025-10-20T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:06:07","slug":"terence-crawford-names-the-two-undefeated-fighters-who-turned-down-offers-to-face-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213878\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Names The Two Undefeated Fighters Who Turned Down Offers To Face Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five-weight world champion Terence Crawford<\/a> has established himself as one of, if not the greatest fighter of his entire generation over the last few years.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska has had an exceptional professional career to date, remaining unbeaten in 42 bouts since he made his debut way back in 2008.<\/p>\n

Crawford etched his name into the boxing history books once again last month when he defeated Mexico\u2019s Canelo Alvarez to capture the undisputed super-middleweight championship<\/a> at a sold-out Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bud\u2019 has also achieved undisputed status in a further two weight classes throughout the course of his career, accomplishing this feat at light-welterweight and welterweight respectively, becoming the first male fighter to do this in three separate divisions.<\/p>\n

There are still a number of opponents out there that fans want to see Crawford take on, but he has claimed that two fighters in particular have refused the chance to face him.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview<\/a>, Crawford revealed that American stars Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis and Vergil Ortiz were reportedly offered the chance to face him recently, but both passed up on this huge opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoots had a chance to fight me, Vergil Ortiz had an opportunity to fight me, but now everybody like \u2018Oh I\u2019ll fight Terence or I\u2019m this, I\u2019m that\u2019 \u2026 I\u2019m like okay cool, when y\u2019all had your opportunity y\u2019all went elsewhere, but now that y\u2019all see I\u2019m the ticket now y\u2019all like \u2018Oh yeah we wanna fight Terence Crawford, we want Terence Crawford\u2019 \u2026 that\u2019s the narrative now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Ennis and Ortiz are undefeated in their respective careers, and while a clash against Crawford may not come to fruition in the near future, the pair have actually been linked to a bout with one another next.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Bud\u2019 is expected to take some time away from the sport before he makes an important decision on his future, one that could result in the five-weight world champion announcing his retirement, although this remains unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-weight world champion Terence Crawford has established himself as one of, if not the greatest fighter of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-213878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213878","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=213878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}