{"id":231419,"date":"2025-10-29T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231419\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:54:10","slug":"terence-crawford-names-the-one-fighter-who-hit-harder-than-both-canelo-and-errol-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231419\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Names The One Fighter Who Hit Harder Than Both Canelo And Errol Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> has shared the ring with a number of heavy hitters during his career, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/canelo-alvarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/errol-spence-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Errol Spence Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/ex-undisputed-champion-calls-out-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 38-year-old from Omaha has had a stellar professional career to date<\/a>, winning world titles in five weight divisions since he entered the paid ranks back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bud\u2019 picked up what was at the time the biggest win of his career in July of 2023 when he stopped countryman Spence in the ninth round of their Las Vegas showdown to become the first undisputed welterweight champion of the \u2018four belt\u2019 era.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward just over two years and Crawford racked up yet another legacy-defining victory over Mexican icon Canelo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/features\/canelo-crawford-live-on-netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">defeating the 35-year-old from Guadalajara via unanimous decision<\/a> to capture the undisputed super-middleweight championship, becoming the first male fighter to achieve this feat in three weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the post-fight press conference just moments after he defeated Canelo, \u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford gave a surprising answer when revealing his hardest hitting opponent, naming Lithuania\u2019s Egidijus Kavaliauskas ahead of Canelo and Spence in a surprising admission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been hit harder in a real fight. \u2018Mean Machine\u2019 hit harder than Canelo, to me, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crawford faced \u2018Mean Machine\u2019 back in December of 2019 when he stopped the durable Lithuanian in the ninth round of their clash at Madison Square Garden, making the third successful defence of his WBO welterweight title in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Kavaliauskas has proved to be a tough opponent for a number of highly-rated fighters during his career, including super-welterweight contender Vergil Ortiz Jr and 2016 Olympic Bronze Medalist Souleymane Cissokho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has shared the ring with a number of heavy hitters during his career, including Canelo Alvarez&hellip;\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-231419","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\/231419","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=231419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231419\/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=231419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}