{"id":307575,"date":"2025-12-09T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307575\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:07","slug":"terence-crawford-says-mayweather-was-the-best-of-his-era-but-one-man-has-to-be-the-greatest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307575\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford says Mayweather was the best of his era but one man ‘has to be’ the greatest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has shared his thoughts on where Floyd Mayweather stands in the debate over the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n

Crawford has put himself into that conversation in recent times, with a victory over Canelo Alvarez in September<\/a> seeing \u2018Bud\u2019 become undisputed super-middleweight champion, having moved up two weight divisions in the process.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Crawford had also been undisputed at welterweight and super-lightweight, while further world honours at 135lbs and 154lbs make him a five-division world champion.<\/p>\n

Another man that was a five-division world champion was Mayweather<\/a>, who dominated the sport throughout the 2000s and 2010s, establishing himself as the face of boxing and pound-for-pound number one.<\/p>\n

He claimed wins over fellow legends such as Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo to name just a few, and Crawford has now revealed where he believes Mayweather ranks when it comes to talking about the best ever.<\/p>\n

In a round of quickfire questions prior to his bout with Spence<\/a>, Crawford admitted that he views Mayweather as the greatest of this current era, but when it comes to all time, he feels another man is above him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe GOAT of right now is Floyd, but all time got to be Sugar Ray Robinson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson had an illustrious career from 1940 to 1965, where at one stage he had put together a record of 129-1-2 with 85 knockouts, including a 91-fight unbeaten streak along the way.<\/p>\n

He was world welterweight champion from 1946 to 1951, plus a five-time world middleweight champion, finishing with 174 wins from 201 fights, making it clear why Crawford, along with many others, view him as the greatest ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has shared his thoughts on where Floyd Mayweather stands in the debate over the greatest of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-307575","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\/307575","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=307575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}