{"id":705367,"date":"2026-07-22T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705367\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:28:08","slug":"conor-benn-picks-a-winner-in-prime-floyd-mayweather-vs-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705367\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn picks a winner in prime Floyd Mayweather vs Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of grinding and proving himself in the sport, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> is finally being given his flowers now that he has retired, considered to be amongst boxing\u2019s all-time greats. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/conor-benn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Benn<\/a> has shared whether he believes the Omaha-born switch-hitter would have been able to hand Floyd Mayweather his first career defeat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46251831\/terence-crawford-tops-canelo-alvarez-historic-undisputed-crown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crawford became the first post-war boxer to claim the undisputed world title in three separate weight divisions when he dethroned Canelo Alvarez last September<\/a>, simultaneously extending his professional record to 42-0 and becoming a five-division world champion.<\/p>\n<p>With his legacy cemented, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj01v4z6107o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018Bud\u2019 then hung up the gloves at the age of 38 years old<\/a>, retiring with an undefeated record and drawing comparisons to Mayweather, who famously walked away from the sport with a 50-0 record and as a four-weight world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailymailsport\/video\/7664966897259007254?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, Conor Benn admitted that he would favour Crawford, when asked for his thoughts on how a fantasy fight between Crawford and \u2018TBE\u2019 would play out, if they were to meet in their primes.<\/p>\n<p>Benn then went on to say that Crawford would also overcome fellow legends, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker and Roberto Duran \u2013 making the American one of boxing\u2019s best pound-for-pound fighters of all time, in the eyes of \u2018The Destroyer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Benn has the chance to fight for one of Crawford\u2019s old belts, as he challenges Ryan Garcia for the WBC welterweight world crown atop a blockbuster Las Vegas card, that is <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/opetaia-to-fight-on-high-profile-card\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also expected to feature cruiserweight, Jai Opetaia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of grinding and proving himself in the sport, Terence Crawford is finally being given his flowers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705367","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\/705367","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=705367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}