{"id":640521,"date":"2026-06-15T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:33:07","slug":"shakur-stevenson-names-the-one-fighter-who-could-have-beaten-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640521\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson names the one fighter who could have beaten Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> is on the verge of recognition as one of boxing\u2019s best and he has moved higher up the rankings following the retirement of good friend, Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, despite their relationship, there is one fighter that Stevenson believes could have beaten \u2018Bud\u2019, if they met in their primes.<\/p>\n

Crawford hung up the gloves with an undefeated record after 42 fights, having become boxing\u2019s fifth five-division world champion with a legendary triumph over Canelo Alvarez back in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That win earned Crawford an enormous amount of credit, thrusting himself into comparisons with those considered to be some of the greatest fighters in the long history of the sport.<\/p>\n

Although, speaking to The Agnew Podcast<\/a>, Stevenson labelled a fantasy fight between Crawford and Floyd Mayweather Jr<\/a> as a \u201950\/50\u2019 fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hard to say with this s**t because, with both of them guys, they different, so it is hard to even picture who would win. Now, what I do say, I think that Floyd, early on in his career, he struggled with southpaws; I feel like \u2018Bud\u2019 is probably going to be a southpaw and be the southpaw that he has ever been against. So that would probably play a part.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, I\u2019ve seen \u2018Bud\u2019 have little issues with guys like \u2018Mean Machine\u2019 [Egidijus Kavaliauskas], who was orthodox and [Yuriorkis] Gamboa was winning some rounds, so it is a 50\/50 thing. You just never know who would come in on point and win that fight, so it\u2019s hard for me to even give an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst Crawford\u2019s unbeaten record seems set in stone, Mayweather\u2019s fabled 50-fight win streak could be at risk, if his mooted September rematch with Manny Pacquiao<\/a> is a professional contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson is on the verge of recognition as one of boxing\u2019s best and he has moved higher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640521","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\/640521","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=640521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}