{"id":555396,"date":"2026-04-28T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555396\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:20:08","slug":"hall-of-fame-champion-says-he-would-have-been-the-man-to-beat-terence-crawford-im-going-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555396\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame champion says he would have been the man to beat Terence Crawford: “I’m going to win”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Hall of Famer, who made an astonishing 15 defences of his world welterweight title, has backed himself in a fantasy showdown with Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many regard \u2018Bud\u2019 as one of the all-time greatest welterweight champions, given the magnitude of his undisputed triumph over Errol Spence Jr<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, he had amassed seven consecutive world title victories at 147lbs, all by stoppage, but could only cement himself as the top dog by dethroning Spence.<\/p>\n

Not only did he defeat \u2018The Truth\u2019, and claim his three world titles, but Crawford made it a surprisingly one-sided beatdown through nine rounds.<\/p>\n

Following that career-defining moment, the American went on to become a three-division undisputed champion, moving all the way up to 168lbs to dethrone Canelo Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Welterweight, however, is where Crawford managed to produce several of his top performances, perhaps striking the perfect balance between feeling healthy and physically imposing.<\/p>\n

Another man who found considerable success at 147lbs, of course, is Felix Trinidad, who reigned as the IBF world champion for nearly seven years.<\/p>\n

Two of his greatest victories came against Oscar De La Hoya and Pernell Whitaker, who both crafted Hall of Fame careers in their own right.<\/p>\n

It is only natural, then, that \u2018Tito\u2019 fancies his chances in a prime-for-prime battle with Crawford, telling Fight Hub TV<\/a> that he would have handed \u2018Bud\u2019 his only professional blemish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all due respect to Crawford\u2026 Tito Trinidad \u2013 I\u2019m going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

While no fighter managed to find an answer to the Crawford puzzle, it could equally be said that the former five-division world champion never faced anyone like Trinidad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hall of Famer, who made an astonishing 15 defences of his world welterweight title, has backed himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555396","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\/555396","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=555396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}