{"id":424004,"date":"2026-02-13T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:02:11","slug":"terence-crawford-selected-bwaa-2025-fighter-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424004\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford selected BWAA 2025 Fighter of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Crawford fought just once in 2025, but the magnitude of the win over Alvarez \u2013 still considered by many to be the proverbial \u201cface of boxing\u201d \u2013 superseded the collective efforts of all other fighters. \u201cBud\u201d didn\u2019t merely beat Alvarez \u2013 he achieved history while outclassing a future Hall of Famer over 12 rounds on a Mexican Independence Day weekend that for years has been a featured slot for Canelo. The win made Crawford, of Omaha, Nebraska, a five-division world titleholder and the first male boxer in the four-belt era to hold undisputed titles in three different weight classes. With no lands left to conquer, Crawford, 42-0 (31 KOs), retired last December at age 38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crawford fought just once in 2025, but the magnitude of the win over Alvarez \u2013 still considered by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,155866,9297,155867,102318,49555,50158,16336,101,17617,9553,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-424004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-bwaa-awards","10":"tag-christy-martin","11":"tag-john-sheppard","12":"tag-keith-connolly","13":"tag-mikaela-mayer","14":"tag-robert-garcia","15":"tag-roy-jones","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sugar-ray-leonard","18":"tag-terence-crawford","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424004","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=424004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}