{"id":247529,"date":"2025-11-06T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:15:09","slug":"joe-calzaghe-says-theres-only-one-winner-between-prime-roy-jones-jr-and-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247529\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Calzaghe says there’s only one winner between prime Roy Jones Jr and Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a>\u2019s monumental win over Canelo Alvarez in September will go down as one of this century\u2019s greatest triumphs, but such an achievement raises questions.<\/p>\n

Becoming a three-weight undisputed champion will surely make Crawford a first-ballot Hall of Famer<\/a> and places him in the conversation as one of the greatest fighters of all time.<\/p>\n

Defeating the Mexican to capture all four super-middleweight world titles is unlikely to throw Crawford into the mix as one of the greatest 168-pounders, however. That particular debate features men such as Joe Calzaghe \u2014 and the Welshman shared his thoughts on Crawford\u2019s win ahead of an appearance at Paddy\u2019s Sportsbook at The Hippodrome Casino for Chris Eubank Jr vs. Conor Benn II on November 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what he did was great, but I think a lot of it\u2019s down to Canelo.\u201d<\/p>\n

One argument many believe aided Crawford\u2019s victory is the recent decline of Canelo<\/a>. While that shouldn\u2019t detract from the American\u2019s brilliance on the night, it doesn\u2019t qualify Crawford, in Calzaghe\u2019s eyes, to have lived with a super-middleweight great such as Roy Jones Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you can\u2019t really put a peak Roy Jones in with \u2026 people making a point of, would [Crawford] have beaten a peak Roy Jones? Come on, man. No, I think he\u2019s done great, going up in weight. He\u2019s a great fighter, he\u2019s a great fighter, Terence Crawford. But I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne fight against Canelo, who I didn\u2019t think really turned up that night \u2013 I don\u2019t know. You can make a point, I suppose, because he just beat Canelo, but I just don\u2019t think Canelo\u2019s the fighter he was, judging on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calzaghe admitted to being impressed with Crawford and believed he fought the right fight against Canelo, whom he described as \u201cflat-footed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Canelo] didn\u2019t really throw any punches, he\u2019s flat-footed. But [Crawford] did well. But putting him in the best super middleweights ever, I\u2019m not sure about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford\u2019s monumental win over Canelo Alvarez in September will go down as one of this century\u2019s greatest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-247529","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\/247529","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=247529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}