{"id":225520,"date":"2025-10-25T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225520\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:45:06","slug":"paulie-malignaggi-names-the-best-welterweight-of-all-time-and-its-not-mayweather-or-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225520\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi Names The Best Welterweight Of All Time And It’s Not Mayweather Or Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paulie Malignaggi<\/a> has sensationally overlooked Terence Crawford<\/a> and Floyd Mayweather<\/a> when naming the greatest welterweight in boxing history.<\/p>\n

Mayweather established himself as one of the greatest fighters to have ever laced up a pair of gloves during his career, capturing a version of the world welterweight championship on a number of occasions along the way before his retirement from the sport in 2017.<\/p>\n

As for Crawford, the Omaha-native became the first undisputed world welterweight champion of the \u2018four belt era\u2019 back in July 2023 when he dismantled Errol Spence Jr in the ninth round of their historic showdown in Las Vegas.<\/a><\/p>\n

Neither of those men came to mind for fellow former welterweight world champion Malignaggi though whilst talking to Pro Box TV<\/a>, as he spoke fondly of Thomas Hearns, stating that \u2018nobody\u2019 in boxing history would have defeated the Hall of Famer at welterweight, including Mayweather and Crawford.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to see anybody beating Hearns in history at welterweight honestly, and literally anybody. I mean if you look at Ray Leonard, he lost more rounds than he won against Hearns in two fights. In both fights he was behind in the first fight and in the second fight they robbed Hearns and they made it a draw even though that was at a higher weight than welterweight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearns became the first fighter to win world titles in five separate divisions when he defeated WBC light-heavyweight champion Dennis Andries back in 1987.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Hitman\u2019 was a member of \u2018The Four Kings\u2019 during the peak of his accomplished career<\/a> alongside former rivals Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Duran, sharing the ring with each of this legendary trio on at least one occasion before his career came to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi has sensationally overlooked Terence Crawford and Floyd Mayweather when naming the greatest welterweight in boxing history.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225520","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\/225520","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=225520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}