{"id":303408,"date":"2025-12-07T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303408\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:04:13","slug":"terence-crawford-hits-back-at-oscar-de-la-hoya-after-he-named-the-one-man-who-would-ko-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303408\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford hits back at Oscar De La Hoya after he named the one man who would KO him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has fired heavy artillery at Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>, responding to the promoter\u2019s suggestion that he would have got knocked out by a pound-for-pound legend.<\/p>\n

It is fair to say that Crawford, an immensely proud competitor, does not take kindly to any fantasy matchup where he fails to come out on top.<\/p>\n

The three-division undisputed champion is unbeaten as a professional<\/a>, while having also cemented himself as a first ballot Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

But while the super-middleweight king does have full confidence in his ability, Golden Boy boss De La Hoya nonetheless believes that a certain Manny Pacquiao<\/a> would have had his number.<\/p>\n

When asked by Mail Sport Boxing<\/a> how a prime-for-prime battle between Crawford and Pacquiao would have unfolded, De La Hoya immediately favoured the Filipino to win by knockout.<\/p>\n

The Californian did suffer an eighth-round stoppage defeat to \u2018Pac Man\u2019 in 2008, back when their welterweight contest swiftly became a one-sided beatdown.<\/p>\n

At that point, De La Hoya was coming towards the end of his career<\/a> while Pacquiao, known for his explosive speed and ferocious power, was largely considered to be in or around his prime.<\/p>\n

Despite previously campaigning in lower weight classes, the eight-division world champion was nonetheless a formidable force at 147lbs, also beating the likes of Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito and Shane Mosley.<\/p>\n

But even so, Crawford, who became the undisputed welterweight king following a ninth-round finish over Errol Spence Jr in 2023, has insisted in a post on X<\/a> that he would have convincingly beaten both Pacquiao and De La Hoya in their primes.<\/p>\n

\u201c[De La Hoya] said [Pacquiao] would have beat me because he got stopped by him.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook\u2026 I would have f***ed you, Pacquiao and whoever you [think] would have beat me the f*** up. Just because I\u2019m responsible doesn\u2019t mean s***.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has fired heavy artillery at Oscar De La Hoya, responding to the promoter\u2019s suggestion that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-303408","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\/303408","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=303408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}