{"id":454543,"date":"2026-03-03T02:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454543\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:03:15","slug":"terence-crawford-says-fighters-need-to-come-together-they-cant-cut-the-check-without-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454543\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford says fighters need to come together: \u2018They can\u2019t cut the check without us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford thinks fighters need to be more assertive in combat sports.<\/p>\n

The first man to capture undisputed titles in three weight-classes in the four-belt era of boxing, Crawford is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. Last year, Crawford retired after beating Canelo Alvarez, saying he had nothing left to accomplish in the sport. But while \u201cBud\u201d may be done, combat sports roll on, and he\u2019d like to see some changes from his peers. Specifically, Crawford wants his fellow fighters to understand how much power they have.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese combat sports, it\u2019s got to come from the fighters,\u201d Crawford told Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience<\/a> podcast when talking about weight-cutting being a problem in the UFC. \u201cJust like boxing. I think if the fighters come together, they can make anything happen. The fighters don\u2019t understand the level of power that they carry, because they think, \u2018Oh, since they\u2019re cutting the check, they\u2019ve got the power.\u2019 But they can\u2019t cut the check without us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea of MMA fighters banding together has been around for years but never come even close to happening. Various attempts at organizing fighters have started and stopped, faltering early on as fighters seem broadly disinterested in the idea. Or, as Crawford says, because the financial realities of opposing the promoters are not viable for many fighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s the fighters that need the money that makes it hard, because the fighters already got the money, they can make a stand for something,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cBut the fighters that doesn\u2019t, they\u2019re like, \u2018You can do that. I\u2019ve got to provide for my family. You can take a chance of going at the organization for a year or however long it\u2019s going to last, but who\u2019s going to pay my bills? Who is going to put food on my family\u2019s table while we\u2019re doing this, while we\u2019re making a stand? So it\u2019s a little tougher for them to make that stand than a person that\u2019s already established. I think that\u2019s where the seesaw effect happens with boxing and UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford thinks fighters need to be more assertive in combat sports. The first man to capture undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6588,101,715,914,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-454543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-results","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-ufc","12":"tag-ufc-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454543","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=454543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}