{"id":768627,"date":"2026-09-12T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768627\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:11","slug":"jeff-mayweathers-honest-comparison-of-floyd-mayweather-and-terence-crawford-hes-a-better-puncher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768627\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Mayweather’s honest comparison of Floyd Mayweather and Terence Crawford: “He’s a better puncher”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Floyd Mayweather and Terence Crawford<\/a> hung up the gloves with undefeated records, and Mayweather\u2019s uncle and former trainer Jeff Mayweather has assessed how a battle between the pair, in their primes, would play out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayweather retired as a five-division world champion with a legendary 50-0 undefeated record, defeating the likes of Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a> in a career that will be spoke about for decades to come.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Crawford retired last year after becoming the first post-war three-division undisputed world champion, walking away from the sport with his unbeaten record intact after 42 pro contests and a career best victory over Canelo Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discussing a fantasy fight between the two superstars with Sean Zittel<\/a>, Jeff Mayweather shared his love for \u2018Bud\u2019 but maintained that he would fancy \u2018TBE\u2019 to come out on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of them fights where fans would probably be split down the middle. Of course, I would choose my nephew [to win] but Terence Crawford is a damn good fighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t just like him as a fighter, I like him as a person, I like the way that he carries himself, what he stands for and what he represents. So I like a lot about Terence Crawford.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old then went on to admit that Crawford may have been a better puncher than Mayweather, but favoured the elusiveness of his nephew over the aggression of the Omaha-born southpaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the fight happened and Floyd was in his prime, I think that Floyd would beat him. I think that Terence fights and gets hit a whole lot, I have never seen a fight where Floyd got hit a whole lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerence Crawford was a better puncher than Floyd, I think, so it\u2019s a fight that either one could win but I\u2019m going with my nephew!\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford has been linked to a comeback in recent days<\/a>, with fight fans keen to see the 39-year-old return to action and face unified super-welterweight world champion Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Floyd Mayweather and Terence Crawford hung up the gloves with undefeated records, and Mayweather\u2019s uncle and former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768627","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\/768627","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=768627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}