{"id":738251,"date":"2026-08-14T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:24:08","slug":"tim-bradley-believes-terence-crawford-can-be-enticed-out-of-retirement-if-one-rival-cleans-out-160lbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738251\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley believes Terence Crawford can be &#8216;enticed&#8217; out of retirement if one rival cleans out 160lbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bradley has named one man who could present Terence Crawford with an appealing opportunity to come out of retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The sure-fire Hall of Famer called time on his career in December, just a few months after <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-defines-career-with-remarkable-canelo-alvarez-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dethroning Canelo Alvarez<\/a> for the undisputed super-middleweight crown.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Crawford became a three-division undisputed champion and retired as one of the modern greats, having also claimed world titles in two other weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>But while the unbeaten American seems content with his non-fighting lifestyle, there has been repeated talk of him returning to action for a clash with Jaron Ennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Boots\u2019 became a two-division unified champion in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/49204042\/ennis-stops-zayas-win-wbo-wba-junior-middleweight-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dethroning Xander Zayas with a vicious seventh-round finish<\/a> for the WBA and WBO world super-welterweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, many feel that he is now the top dog at 154lbs, despite having not yet tested himself against fellow champions Sebastian Fundora and Josh Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Those unification matches do seem to be on his radar, though, and while the Crawford fight appears unlikely, Ennis has nonetheless expressed his interest in facing \u2018Bud\u2019 on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p>In order for it to make sense for Crawford, however, Hall of Famer Bradley has said on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O2mAJTFzRBE?si=0h28mju98kcGEcTN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his YouTube channel<\/a> that Ennis would need to become the undisputed middleweight king.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoots ain\u2019t got [anything] that Crawford needs, nothing at all. Well, Boots \u2026 if you go up to 160[lbs] and you wipe out the whole division and you win all the straps there, maybe that might be enticing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ennis first attempted to challenge Crawford in 2023, when he was the IBF mandatory challenger at 147lbs and Bud had just stopped Errol Spence Jr in nine rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley has named one man who could present Terence Crawford with an appealing opportunity to come out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738251","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\/738251","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=738251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}