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Terence Crawford: “There Is Only One Man Who Can Beat Me”

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Terence Crawford looks to have entered the final chapter of what has been a remarkable career.

Since making his professional debut 17-years-ago, the 37-year-old switch-hitter from Omaha, Nebraska has made his way through the ranks to capture world titles in four weight divisions, as well as becoming the undisputed champion at super lightweight and welterweight respectively.

His latest ring appearance came last August when he defeated Israil Madrimov to claim the WBA light middleweight title in his debut at 154lbs. Since claiming victory over Madrimov, ‘Bud’ has turned his attention to Mexican superstar and unified super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, with a mega-fight between the pair set to take place in Las Vegas this September.

Terence Crawford: “There Is Only One Man Who Can Beat Me”

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Speaking on the Earn Your Leisure Podcast, the 37-year-old revealed he has the utmost confidence in his own boxing ability, claiming the only way he can lose is if he beats himself.

“My mindset is always, win at all costs. Make sure I’m coming in at 110% shape and prepared for whatever the opponent brings to the table. Make sure that I’m at the best of my abilities going into a fight so I don’t have to worry about anybody else.

A lot of people ask me ‘what have you got to do to win a fight’, and I always say, ‘just be myself’. I always say that because I obviously feel that I’m Terence Crawford and can’t nobody beat me unless I beat myself.”

Crawford will be looking to achieve what many people believe is the unthinkable when he steps up to 168lbs to challenge Canelo, who holds the WBC, WBA and WBO titles at 168lbs. It’s an opportunity for ‘Bud’ to become a five-weight world champion, which would be a defining moment in what’s been a sensational professional career.

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Canelo Shares Just How Long He Would Have ‘Played With’ Jake Paul Before Knocking Him Out

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Canelo vs Jake Paul very nearly happened this year.

The two men were linked to a shock clash this summer, and were believed to be in deep negotiations before the fight collapsed at the 11th hour after Canelo opted to sign a four-fight deal with Riyadh Season instead.

It means that the Mexican superstar will take on IBF champion William Scull in May before turning his attention to Terence Crawford in September, but that hasn’t stopped YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul from claiming that Canelo ‘ducked him.’

Canelo Shares Just How Long He Would Have ‘Played With’ Jake Paul Before Knocking Him Out

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The fight would have been viewed by most boxing fans as a huge mismatch, with Canelo the current unified super-middleweight champion and one of the pound-for-pound best fighters in the world.

It is a stark contrast to Paul, who was last in action in November taking on a 58-year-old Mike Tyson who hadn’t fought professionally for over two decades.

Canelo has now revealed exactly how he thinks a fight against Paul would have gone, telling The Breakfast Club that he might have ‘played with him a little’ before stopping him in the first round.

“Not that Long. Maybe [first round], not long. Yeah [I might play with him a little], I think people would enjoy it.”

With Canelo now having fights against Scull and Crawford lined up for the reminder of 2025, it has left Paul once again searching for his next opponent.

It could potentially come against a current world champion with 20 knockouts from 21 victories, who has stated they want to face ‘The Problem Child’ in order to try and get payback for Tyson.

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Terence Crawford could equal Floyd Mayweather record on one condition

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Terence Crawford believes he ranks as an all-time great if he can jump up in weight and dethrone Canelo Alvarez.

Crawford has already achieved it all in the boxing ring, winning world titles in four weight classes by the age of 37, including the undisputed crown at super-lightweight and welterweight.

He has faced a resume of tough opponents including Kell Brook, Amir Khan, Shawn Porter and Errol Spence Jr.

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But the biggest examination of his ring credentials is set to come this year as he is set to touch gloves with fellow pound-for-pound great Alvarez.

The pair will meet in a blockbuster clash in front of over 60,000 fans in Las Vegas in September, with the fight to take place for Alvarez’s 168lbs belts if he beats William Scull in May.

Crawford is set to put on 14lbs from his previous fighting weight where he took on and beat Israil Madrimov at 154lbs in September.

It will be a seismic task to dethrone the naturally bigger Mexican, but if he successfully does so, he can become a five-weight world champion.

It would see him match boxing legend Floyd Mayweather’s total record of becoming a five-weight world champion in his stellar fifty-fight undefeated career.

And Crawford believes reaching that feat and winning the bout, will see him ranked as a one of the best fighters of all-time.

He said on The Cigar Talk podcast: “Yeah I think I would definitely rank my resume in the top five.

“I’m really moving up three weight classes in all reality, and fighting arguably one of the best Mexicans to ever fight.

“It’s at his weight, no rehydration clause, I am just fighting the guy at his best.

“My body of work that I have put together, I feel like I can compete with anybody at any era.

“If I win this fight, it will solidify myself as an all-time great because there isn’t many fighters who have done what I did.

“Coming from 135lbs to 168lbs it is crazy.”

Crawford will have put on a total of 33lbs of fighting weight during his stellar career.

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Mayweather fought from 130lbs to 154lbs, a total pile on of 24lbs, which could see the new American on the block make a frightening leap.

Of course it could dramatically backfire given Crawford could feasibly lose, given it will be his debut at the higher weight.

It is still a difficult fight to pick the winner, imposing an intriguing clash of styles on fight night.

But ex-world champion Johnny Nelson doesn’t expect Crawford to be able to bridge the gap.

He told talkSPORT.com: “Yeah I think the weight and size will play a big impact in the fight.

“I think Canelo will simply be too big and too strong for him if Crawford puts on the weight.

“I think Canelo is a really clever fighter, but I’m not sure he was the fighter he once was five or six years ago.

“I think that Canelo beats Crawford to be honest, if not stops him because of that gulf in size.

“But whatever happens it is going to be a great fight, we are getting the fights between big name A and big name B.

“It is giving fight fans the opportunity for fight fans to think of dream fights and then see them become reality.”

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“That’s The Reality”: Terence Crawford Reveals Exact Weight Details For Canelo Alvarez Fight

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After many months of talk, Terence Crawford‘s fight with Saul ‘Canelo‘ Alvarez has now been locked in.

This fight sees two pound-for-pound greats face off despite being in very different weight classes.

American switch-hitter ‘Bud’ is a former undisputed super-lightweight champion who also won all four belts at welterweight. All in all, he is, like Canelo, a four-division champion.

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In 2024 he made his debut at 154 pounds, still 14 pounds off Canelo’s fighting weight. The Mexican legend has won belts as high as light-heavyweight and is currently the unified super middleweight champion with a chance to become undisputed again when he faces William Scull in May.

Their fight has been made at 168lbs which gives ‘Canelo’ the natural advantage, not only as the bigger man but as he has been campaigning at the higher weights for several years and is long bedded into the division.

Speaking to Cigar Talk, Crawford has revealed that there are zero stipulations on the weight, including no rehydration clause on the day of the fight – something Canelo has used in the past.

“I’m really coming up three weight classes, in all reality. But we can say I’m moving up two weight classes, fighting arguably one of the best Mexicans ever.

“You know, and his weight, there are no rehydration clauses, no nothing, you’re just fighting him at his best. There are no stipulations in it, it’s mano-a-mano, I make weight on Friday we fight on Saturday. It’s simple.”

Manny Pacquaio is one man who has moved freely through the weights and won belts in multiple divisions and he recently warned the American ‘it’s not easy.’

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Oleksandr Usyk Names The One Heavyweight Who Was Harder To Beat Than Tyson Fury

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Oleksandr Usyk has taken on all challenges across two weight divisions culminating in 24 rounds with Tyson Fury, though he says ‘The Gypsy King’ didn’t give him his toughest fight.

Usyk has been in unstoppable form almost all of his boxing career. He won plenty of amateur accolades and ended with a gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012. As soon as he turned pro, he soon picked up momentum in the cruiserweight division and, by 2018, had beaten become the undisputed champion.

He then moved up to the top division and soon settled in with wins over Chaz Witherspoon and Derek Chisora before taking on the long-ruling unified champion Anthony Joshua.

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Usyk took a points victory then repeated the feat in the rematch. In August 2023 he took on his mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois and, after being down from a controversial low blow, he scored the stoppage win in the 9th round.

That set up an undisputed fight with the then-unbeaten Fury, who Usyk bettered on points after another tight 12 round contest.

Alongside Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue, that made him a historic two-weight undisputed champion. Last time out in December the Ukrainian southpaw again beat ‘The Gypsy King’ and sent him into retirement, for now at least.

However, he recently revealed to talkSPORT Boxing that it was in fact ‘Del Boy’ who gave him his hardest night.

“I think it is Derek. My friend Derek. Hey, Derek I am coming for you! Derek is a terrible guy, really tough. It’s just hard [fighting] Derek. He was just very difficult.”

Chisora’s 49th contest came earlier this month when he beat Otto Wallin by late KO. He is now looking for a 50th and final opponent later this year after a thrilling career with plenty of ups and downs. Though Usyk won their contest unanimously back in 2020, many have credited the Brit with laying the blueprint for the best way to get to the Ukrainian.

Usyk is now waiting around to once again challenge for undisputed honours against whoever wins the IBF title fight between Dubois and Joseph Parker. A callout from Chisora for a rematch in his 50th fight likely won’t come to anything.

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Gervonta Davis Names The One Man He Wants To Face Most But Admits It Will Be His Toughest Test

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Gervonta Davis has identified the one opponent he would like to face the most.

The 30-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland ranks as one of the best current fighters on the planet, where he reigns as the WBA lightweight champion. ‘Tank’ remains unbeaten through 30 professional outings, knocking out 28 of the opponents he has fought during his career.

In a shock admission made by Davis recently, the 30-year-old was asked on a podcast to name his ‘dream fight’, revealing Floyd Mayweather Jr as the one man he would want to face most.

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“Me vs. Floyd [Mayweather].”

Mayweather has not fought since making his retirement from professional boxing shortly after defeating MMA legend Conor McGregor in August 2017. The 47-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan has a history of working with ‘Tank’ during the early stages of the lightweight star’s career, before the pair went their separate ways in 2022.

Despite making the shock call-out to ‘Money’, Davis has also admitted in an interview with Boxing News that a showdown against his former promoter would still be the toughest test of anyone he could potentially fight.

“Probably Mayweather [would be the toughest]”.

Although he has not appeared in a professional capacity in just under 9-years, Mayweather has had a number of exhibition contests where he has come up against the likes of Tenshin Nasukawa, Logan Paul and Aaron Chalmers.

The 47-year-old has left the door open for a return to the sport over the last few years, although any concrete news of this has never come to fruition. ‘Tank’ Davis returns to the ring on March 1 when he faces Lamont Roach Jr in a defence of his WBA crown in New York City.

The 30-year-old revealed at the end of last year that he could make a shock exit from the sport within the next 12-months, claiming he has ‘grown tired’ of boxing.

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Terence Crawford Finally Shares ‘100% Honest’ Reaction To Nearly Losing Canelo Fight To Jake Paul

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Terence Crawford has landed the fight that means the most to his legacy, but he almost lost out on it to Jake Paul.

Crawford has been calling out Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez since his undisputed welterweight win against Errol Spence Jr in mid-2023, even despite the Mexican being three divisions higher at super-middleweight.

‘Bud’s pursuit ramped up after he closed the gap slightly by moving up to the 154 ranks to beat Israil Madrimov and become WBA Champion. Though Canelo had been dismissive of the match-up previously, he thawed and at the beginning of 2025 it was reported the two were negotiating through Riyadh Season’s Turki Alalshikh.

Terence Crawford Finally Shares ‘100% Honest’ Reaction To Nearly Losing Canelo Fight To Jake Paul

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Everything was looking positive until it was reported that Canelo, currently unified champion at 168, was deep in negotiations for a sideshow fight against controversial superstar Jake Paul. It was announced that the Crawford fight was off, with the assumption being Alalshikh was not a fan of the Paul bout taking any attention away from it.

Ultimately though, Canelo signed a four-fight deal with Riyadh Season, commencing with a fight against IBF Champion William Scull for a chance to become undisputed at super-middleweight again. All going well for the elite Mexican, the Crawford fight will follow in September.

Paul has since branded Alvarez a ‘duck,’ claiming he had already signed a contract. Though it was a busy time for boxing news, one man who wasn’t involved was Crawford, who told Cigar Talk he had been offline and didn’t believe the reports when he was informed.

“To be 100% honest, I didn’t know nothing about none of that stuff.

I didn’t see nothing until people started calling me. I was like, ‘huh? What’s going on?’ They was like, ‘man, they cancelled your fight.’ Ain’t nobody told me, ain’t nobody called me, ain’t nobody said nothing to me, so I can’t really say what they were talking about is true. I didn’t really feed into it.

I reached out to Turki and he said everything was Gucci, so I didn’t know what everybody else was talking about.”

Crawford will sit out until September, when he will likely get the chance to become a five-weight, three-time undisputed champion.

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Deontay Wilder suffered ‘long-term damage’ in KO beating

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Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder suffered long-term effects that he is still feeling today following the worst beating of his career.

In February 2020, Wilder faced Tyson Fury at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, an event World Boxing News attended. It was a shuddering wake-up call for Wilder, who had been losing many of his fights and getting out of jail due to his unbelievable power.

This scenario happened twice against Luis Ortiz, Artur Szpilka, and, to some extent, against Johann Duhaupas. Wilder could execute his bombs and eventually get all three out of there.

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But not this night, when Fury entered the ring to Patsy Cline’s ‘Crazy’ dressed as the King of the world, with Wilder coming in dressed like something from another planet.

The beating that transpired over the next seven rounds was sometimes brutal to watch. Wilder had never been roughhoused the way he was by Fury when dropped several times and bludgeoned from pillar to post.

Eventually, cornerman Mark Breland saved Wilder for another day. The move cost him his job, as Wilder wanted to go out on his shield. Breland probably wasted his time anyway, as Wilder has never been the same since that night.

Cutman Stitch Duran was in the opposite corner and witnessed the beatdown, as he was hardly needed in the fight. His comments post-fight have rung true to this very day.

After Wilder complained his water was spiked, his suit was too heavy, and conspiracies were at work to make him lose, Duran laid his cards on the table.

“I was looking at the other corner. But I always look at the other corner. I had told Sugar Hill and Andy Lee they would be stopping the fight,” said Duran. “Because the type of shots Deontay Wilder was getting causes what I would call long-term damage. That’s [what causes things like] dementia pugilistic. The punch-drunk syndrome. They were stunning, stunning shots from Tyson.”

On Breland’s intervention, Duran added, “What Wilder’s coach, Mark Breland, did was save his career and his mentality. The punches were deep and direct hits, like getting hit with a baseball bat.

“So it’s going to penetrate. Every time I see him hit guys, I know it hurts. But, they are the shots that penetrate deeply.”

Wilder put on a much better performance in the trilogy, so Duran is correct on that note, but the damage was already done regarding any long-term career for ‘The Bronze Bomber’ in the aftermath.

One win over his sparring partner Robert Helenius since then tells the story. Fury took everything from Wilder over that trilogy saga, not just his coveted and treasured WBC title belt.

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“I Had To Do It”: Gervonta Davis Names The Fight Floyd Mayweather ‘Intentionally Put Him In To Lose’

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Gervonta Davis and Floyd Mayweather have had a turbulent relationship.

Boxing legend Mayweather guided ‘Tank’ during the majority of his career, as Davis won world titles in multiple weight divisions and became widely regarded as one of the most exciting fighters in the sport.

The two then parted ways in 2022, and things have seemingly turned hostile since then, with both men having fired insults in the opposite direction in the years that have followed.

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Davis has now revealed that his former mentor Mayweather once put him in a fight where he wanted ‘Tank’ to lose, explaining to The Jay Hill Podcast how things transpired.

“I’ve been in situations where I was in a lose-lose situation and came out still on top. He [Mayweather] put me in to make me lose and thought I would lose. A boxing match. Jose Pedraza. My first world title. I was 16-0 and I was 21 at the time and I hadn’t fought in seven, eight months.

Around that time I wasn’t making that much. Maybe around 10,000 a fight. Six months is crazy to not fight. When they came back and said you’ve got to fight this fighter Pedraza, If you don’t fight him you’re not fighting and sitting on the shelf.

I had to fight him, in the midst of all that happening, I got evicted, I had to sell my jewellery.

For sure [Floyd did that intentionally].”

Davis fought Pedraza back in January 2017, winning the fight by seventh round stoppage to capture the IBF super-featherweight title and become world champion for the first time.

‘Tank’ returns to action in March when he defends his WBA lightweight crown against Lamont Roach, but another recently crowned world champion is already calling to face Davis next.

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Daniel Dubois Reveals Who Hit Harder Between Oleksandr Usyk And Anthony Joshua

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Daniel Dubois has been in the ring with both Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua, and may be again soon.

The young Brit’s first world title tilt came against Usyk in August of 2023 after the Ukrainian had taken three of the four major belts from Joshua and defended them in a rematch.

Dubois tried to impose himself on the southpaw champion but was largely unsuccessful save for a moment in the fifth round when he would drop Usyk. It was immediately ruled a low blow and Usyk was given ample time to recover before getting back into his rhythm and scoring his first stoppage in three fights. Dubois was put down in both the eighth and ninth before failing to stand for the referee’s count.

Daniel Dubois Reveals Who Hit Harder Between Oleksandr Usyk And Anthony Joshua

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While Usyk went on to become undisputed champion with a win over Tyson Fury, Dubois bounced back with wins over Jarrell Miller and Filip Hrgovic, fighting himself into a position to hold the interim IBF belt and subsequently the full title when Usyk vacated it.

His first defence came against Joshua at Wembley Stadium, and the 28-year-old would retain his strap with an assured and destructive performance that saw him drop ‘AJ’ three times before the fifth round stoppage. Joshua did land a few heavy shots of his own in an attempt to turn the tide, one of which Dubois says felt like a ‘bomb going off.’

Despite that, in a recent feature with the Ring Magazine ‘DDD’ said Tyson Fury, who he has only sparred, hits harder than Joshua and that Usyk hits harder than Fury. A surprising outcome given ‘AJ’ is known as the knockout puncher between the three.

Dubois puts his belt on the line against Joseph Parker this weekend in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a win all but guaranteeing him a rematch with Usyk for the undisputed championship.

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