{"id":284621,"date":"2025-11-26T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284621\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:10:06","slug":"teddy-atlas-says-terence-crawford-isnt-the-best-boxer-in-the-world-and-names-who-is-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284621\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Atlas says Terence Crawford isn&#8217;t the best boxer in the world and names who is number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teddy Atlas believes there is currently just one active fighter that is even better than <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas is now best known as host of The Fight with Teddy Atlas, where he breaks down the latest developments in boxing and MMA each week. A trainer of countless world champions \u2013 from Michael Moorer to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/timothy-bradley-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Bradley<\/a> \u2013 and once part of Mike Tyson\u2019s corner team, Atlas\u2019s opinions remain widely respected.<\/p>\n<p>A pound-for-pound list is, of course, entirely subjective, ranking the 10 best fighters in the world regardless of weight class.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, most observers would place <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue in their top three, in varying orders. Usyk was last seen outclassing Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium to become a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-on-canelo-power\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crawford capped what may be a Fighter of the Year campaign by toppling super-middleweight king Canelo Alvarez<\/a> to become a three-weight undisputed champion, while Japanese destroyer Inoue returns on December 27 to defend his super-bantamweight undisputed crown against David Picasso.<\/p>\n<p>So, who makes Atlas\u2019s top 10 after last weekend\u2019s action in Riyadh? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TeddyAtlasReal\/status\/1993181206553542876?t=KBvvCpw_Xd_JNYzbBpSaBw&amp;s=19\" rel=\"nofollow\">He shared his list on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UsykCrawfordInoueBivolBam [Rodriguez]BeterbievBenavidezStevensonNakataniHaney<\/p>\n<p>It means that Atlas believes Usyk is the only current fighter more superior to Crawford, with the Ukrainian expected to return in 2026 for his latest world heavyweight title defence.<\/p>\n<p>As for some of the other inclusions in Atlas\u2019 list following the weekend, Devin Haney became a three-weight world champion after outclassing Brian Norman Jr, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy4733xz8v2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Benavidez retained his WBC light-heavyweight title<\/a> by demolishing Britain\u2019s Anthony Yarde, and the gifted Jesse \u201cBam\u201d Rodriguez became a three-belt world champion at super-flyweight after stopping Fernando Martinez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teddy Atlas believes there is currently just one active fighter that is even better than Terence Crawford. Atlas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-284621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284621","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=284621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}