{"id":343247,"date":"2025-12-30T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343247\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:19:07","slug":"terence-crawford-names-his-top-5-fighters-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343247\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford names his top 5 fighters of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford has become many fans\u2019 favourite fighter during recent years, but now \u2018Bud\u2019 has revealed his own list of five fighters that he loved to watch himself.<\/p>\n

Crawford became the first three-division undisputed champion of the four-belt era when he dethroned legendary super-middleweight ruler Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in a sensational victory back in September.<\/p>\n

Off the back of that performance, the Omaha-born 38-year-old announced his retirement<\/a> from the sport two weeks ago, hanging up the gloves with both an undefeated record and a place amongst the greats.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Adin Ross on a Kick stream<\/a>, Crawford revealed who he believes to be the best in history. After naming Floyd Mayweather as one of his favourite fighters, he added five fellow Americans to complete a list of six.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got Ali, we got Roy Jones Jr, Sugar Ray Leonard, we got Pernell Whittaker and I\u2019m going to put Andre Ward in there. Those are the fighters that I can see footage of, I watched.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad Ali is often regarded as the greatest of all time not just for his in-ring achievements, but his impact culturally. Many fighters consider a prime Roy Jones Jr unbeatable, and Sugar Ray Leonard and Pernell Whittaker shared the sort of ring intelligence people now recognise in Crawford himself. Ward, a close associate of \u2018Bud,\u2019 famously also retired undefeated.<\/p>\n

The question for fans now is where does the man from Omaha slot in to their top fives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has become many fans\u2019 favourite fighter during recent years, but now \u2018Bud\u2019 has revealed his own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-343247","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\/343247","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=343247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}