{"id":403197,"date":"2026-02-02T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:54:07","slug":"terence-crawford-questioned-on-retirement-and-if-he-is-tempted-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403197\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford questioned on retirement and if he is tempted to return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> gave an honest response when asked if he has developed itchy knuckles, or indeed any urge to return to boxing, since announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old called time on his glittering career in December<\/a>, just a few months removed from his monumental victory over Canelo Alvarez.<\/p>\n

Despite moving up from 154lbs and contending with a significant size disadvantage, Crawford was able to outpoint Canelo<\/a> and become a three-division undisputed champion.<\/p>\n

His previous undisputed triumph came in 2023, when he produced a dominant performance to drop and eventually stop Errol Spence Jr.<\/p>\n

That particular victory saw Crawford become the bona fide king at 147lbs, where a string of seven stoppages preceded his ultimate collection of the four major titles.<\/p>\n

It therefore seemed like the right time for \u2018Bud\u2019 to announce his retirement, having made his mark on five weight classes and become one of only a few world champions to exit the sport with an unbeaten record.<\/p>\n

And so, when asked by DAZN<\/a> whether he misses the thrill of competing, Crawford simply insisted that he is grateful for the additional time spent with his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m enjoying it; I\u2019m enjoying the fruits of my labour. I\u2019m putting more time into my kids, and their wrestling careers and things like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just been able to relax and not have to focus on other things outside of my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Crawford was to return, his last rival Canelo would likely be keen for a rematch, having initially stated his desire to face \u2018Bud\u2019 again before the Omaha superstar announced his retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford gave an honest response when asked if he has developed itchy knuckles, or indeed any urge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403197","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\/403197","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=403197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}