{"id":566178,"date":"2026-05-04T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566178\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:23:08","slug":"former-world-champion-says-he-wouldve-kod-terence-crawford-if-he-had-agreed-to-face-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566178\/","title":{"rendered":"Former world champion says he would’ve KO’d Terence Crawford if he had agreed to face him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> hung up the gloves without suffering a defeat, but there is one former world champion who believes that he would have knocked \u2018Bud\u2019 out, if they had been able to agree to a fight.<\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s superstardom skyrocketed during his final fights, becoming a multi-divisional undisputed champion with a spectacular stoppage victory over welterweight rival Errol Spence Jr to finally receive the plaudits that his skill merited.<\/p>\n

A win over Israil Madrimov further proved Crawford\u2019s talent, but it was his history-making triumph over Canelo Alvarez<\/a> that saw the Omaha operator recognised as a true pound-for-pound great.<\/p>\n

However, before moving up to super-welterweight and facing Madrimov, Crawford had been linked to a showdown with 147lb up-and-comer Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis, who went on to become a unified welterweight world champion.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Daily Mail<\/a>, the Philadelphian shared his belief that he would have knocked Crawford out if they ever came to blows, when quizzed on how their fight would have played out.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It would have ended with] me, victorious. I\u2019m stopping [him and] anybody, for sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat ain\u2019t [just] what I am supposed to say, that is what I know. I am like that. Everybody that knows me, that is around me, knows that the higher the occasion is, the higher the event is, the stakes \u2013 you know how I get. I start tweaking, I get nasty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst Ennis believes that Crawford refused to fight him at that point, \u2018Bud\u2019 maintains that Ennis had the opportunity to take him on earlier in his career<\/a>, before he fought Shawn Porter back in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford hung up the gloves without suffering a defeat, but there is one former world champion who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566178","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\/566178","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=566178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}