{"id":656030,"date":"2026-06-24T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656030\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:34:09","slug":"shane-mosley-names-the-welterweight-champion-who-would-have-beaten-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656030\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley names the welterweight champion who would have beaten Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> hung up the gloves last year knowing his place amongst the welterweight and pound-for-pound legends was cemented, but there is one former 147lb ruler who Shane Mosley believes would have got the better of \u2018Bud\u2019 if they had competed in the same era.<\/p>\n

Crawford outpointed Ricky Burns to claim the WBO lightweight world title back in 2014 and defended that belt on two occasions before moving up to super-lightweight, where he knocked out Thomas Dulorme to pick up the 140lb title on debut.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the then unified titlist Crawford became the third undisputed champion of the four-belt era, stopping Julius Indongo inside three rounds to capture the remaining two straps at the weight, then moving onto the welterweight scene.<\/p>\n

At welterweight is where Crawford truly flourished and proved his pound-for-pound talent, securing wins over Amir Khan, Kell Brook and Shawn Porter and then dominating and halting rival Errol Spence Jr to become the undisputed king at a second weight division<\/a> \u2013 the first to achieve that feat as a four-belt champion.<\/p>\n

Crawford fought just twice more, decisioning both Israil Madrimov and Canelo Alvarez to claim gold at super-welterweight and the undisputed throne at super-middleweight<\/a>, with the latter being a win that will be talked about for generations to come.<\/p>\n

Yet, on the \u2018Mi Gallo Boxing Podcast\u2019,<\/a> hosted by two-time middleweight title challenger Gabriel Rosado, two-division world champion Mosley declared his belief that \u2018Sugar\u2019 Ray Leonard would have had too much for the Omaha-born switch-hitter.<\/p>\n

Leonard was a five-weight world champion, but it was at 147lbs where he managed to claim undisputed honours after wins over his fellow \u2018Four Kings\u2019 rivals Roberto Duran<\/a> and Thomas Hearns, along with his first world title triumph against Wilfred Benitez.<\/p>\n

It is those accolades that show why Leonard was such a force in the welterweight division, and why Mosley believes he would have had been able to earn a victory against Crawford.<\/p>\n

As for \u2018Bud\u2019 himself, whilst he seems set to stick to retirement, the 38-year-old does reportedly have a lucrative offer on the table, should he wish to make a return<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford hung up the gloves last year knowing his place amongst the welterweight and pound-for-pound legends was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656030","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\/656030","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=656030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}