{"id":288300,"date":"2025-11-28T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288300\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:10:06","slug":"bob-arum-says-there-is-only-one-winner-between-prime-mayweather-and-crawford-after-promoting-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288300\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum says there is only one winner between prime Mayweather and Crawford after promoting both"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum has worked with some of the most talented fighters in boxing history, including both Floyd Mayweather Jr<\/a> and Terence Crawford<\/a>. When quizzed on a fantasy fight between the two, Arum offered a confident prediction.<\/p>\n

Crawford established himself as a pound-for-pound great this year, dethroning Canelo Alvarez<\/a> at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas back in September to become the first three-division undisputed champion of the four-belt era; after ruling supreme at both super-lightweight and welterweight.<\/p>\n

Whilst Mayweather never became undisputed during his own illustrious career, \u2018Money\u2019, like Crawford, was a five-weight world champion and retired in 2017 with an undefeated record of 50-0, boasting wins over names such as Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and also Canelo.<\/p>\n

As a result, many fans struggle to decide whether a prime Mayweather would have been able to hand Crawford a first career defeat, or vice versa, but Top Rank founder Arum told Sean Zittel<\/a> that he believes \u2018Bud\u2019 would have come out on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrawford [would have beaten Mayweather], because Crawford is a unique kind of fighter that other fighters haven\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ability that he has, to switch [stances], fighters aren\u2019t used to that, they don\u2019t train for that. I just think that Crawford is a very, very unique talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is now expected that the Omaha-born sensation will drop down to the middleweight division<\/a> in an attempt to become boxing\u2019s third six-division world champion, with a fight against either Janibek Alimkhanuly or Carlos Adames looking the likely option for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum has worked with some of the most talented fighters in boxing history, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288300","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\/288300","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=288300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}