{"id":707444,"date":"2026-07-23T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707444\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:33:08","slug":"ryan-garcia-picks-a-winner-in-prime-tommy-hearns-vs-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707444\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia picks a winner in prime Tommy Hearns vs Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WBC welterweight world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> has predicted how <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> would fare if tasked with boxing legend Thomas Hearns in his prime.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford became boxing\u2019s sixth five-division world champion when he defeated Canelo Alvarez back in September, 37 years after Hearns became boxing\u2019s first five-weight conqueror.<\/p>\n<p>Hearns is hailed as one of boxing\u2019s greatest knockout artists, boasting 48 KOs in his 61 wins; which span across a total of six weight divisions. In 1988, \u2018The Hitman\u2019 clinched world honours in a fifth division when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/blog\/boxing\/post\/_\/id\/3260\/hearns-endures-the-heat-to-make-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he decisioned James Kinchen to become the inaugural WBO super-middleweight champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Crawford became the first fighter in 17 years to join the five-division club when he dethroned Canelo, simultaneously becoming the first post-war boxer to reign as an undisputed champion in three different divisions.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, \u2018Bud\u2019 has earned his place amongst boxing\u2019s all-time greats and now that he has retired, he is beginning to receive the recognition that his phenomenal career merits, unanimously considered as a pound-for-pound legend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailymailsport\/video\/7665320053696515350?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, Garcia admitted that he would still favour Hearns in a fantasy fight with the Omaha-born switch-hitter, with the size of the Detroit icon presumably being one key factor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garcia then went on to pick Hearns to come out on top against Floyd Mayweather, but admitted that <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/sugar-ray-leonard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar Ray Leonard<\/a> would always have Hearns\u2019 number if they fought in their primes, despite their controversial rematch in 1989; where Leonard was fortunate to escape with a draw and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/sugar-ray-leonard-views-thomas-hearns-rematch-draw-as-a-defeat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">later admitted that he lost that fight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC welterweight world champion Ryan Garcia has predicted how Terence Crawford would fare if tasked with boxing legend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707444","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\/707444","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=707444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}