Terence Crawford<\/a> put together an impressive amateur career before he turned pro in 2008.<\/p>\n\u2018Bud\u2019 would go 58-12 on the amateur circuit, winning several major tournaments and beating acclaimed opponents like Mikey Garcia and Danny Magdaleno, who would both go on to become world champions.<\/p>\n
Crawford was able to build some serious momentum by winning several amateur tournaments that saw him obtain the top lightweight ranking in the United States.<\/p>\n
With one eye on representing his country at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, his push for this honor was ended following a loss to Sadam Ali, which then led to Crawford turning professional shortly after.<\/p>\n
Ali, who last competed in 2019, would go on to become the WBO light middleweight champion, but in his first defense of the title in May of 2018, he was stopped by Jaime Munguia in the fourth round.<\/p>\n
In February of last year, Munguia faced off with Canelo Alvarez and after a strong start to the fight from the challenger, Alvarez won a convincing decision via the scorecards.<\/p>\n
Sadam Ali and Canelo Alvarez shared another common opponent<\/p>\n
Before Sadam Ali\u2019s title reign was ended by Jaime Monguia in May of 2018, he defeated Miguel Cotto in a huge upset to win the title.<\/p>\n
Many expected Cotto to cap off his career with one last win but Ali had other plans, beating the multiple-time world champion via a unanimous decision two years after Canelo Alvarez had done the same.<\/p>\n
Alvarez\u2019s next outing saw him stop Amir Khan in the sixth round as he continued to put his 2013 loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/a> behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On September 13, Terence Crawford will compete in the biggest fight of his career. \u2018Bud\u2019 is certainly no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,9554,101,9553,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-46776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-canelo-alvarez","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-terence-crawford","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46776","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=46776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Al Bello\/Getty Images for NetflixTerence Crawford was beaten by Sadam Ali in 2007 who would go on to face Jaime Munguia in a world title defense<\/p>\n