Terence Crawford, who claimed the title of best pound-for-pound boxer with a\u00a0convincing victory over Canelo Alvarez\u00a0in September, announced his retirement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Crawford is the only male boxer to capture three unified division titles, which he accomplished with that unanimous decision over Alvarez before 70,482 fans at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
That gave Crawford the super middleweight championship and a 42-0 record with 31 knockouts. His final 20 bouts came with a belt on the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery fighter knows this moment would come,\u201d Crawford said in a 5 1\/2-minute video detailing his decision. \u201cYou just never know when.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crawford turned pro in 2008 and won titles in four weight classes \u2014 lightweight, super lightweight, welterweight and super welterweight \u2014 before moving up two more weight divisions for the bout against Alvarez.<\/p>\n
Crawford took pride in representing Omaha, Nebraska, the city where he grew up and continued to live.<\/p>\n
He probably could have continued to sign up for other fights, and the win over Alvarez showed Crawford still had plenty left in him.<\/p>\n
But rather than accept another massive payday, Crawford decided to move on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sport gave me everything,” Crawford said. “I fought for my family. I fought for the city. I fought for the kid I used to be, the one who had nothing but a dream and a pair of gloves, and I did it all my way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve made peace with what’s next. It’s time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoxing is set to be on the program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after years of disputes over how the sport is run.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford, who claimed the title of best pound-for-pound boxer with a\u00a0convincing victory over Canelo Alvarez\u00a0in September, announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4629,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-72991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}