Terence Crawford Secures Legacy as Boxing Great with Undefeated Record and Multiple Titles
Terence Crawford has announced he is stepping away from professional boxing on his own terms at age 38, retiring undefeated after 42 professional fights with 31 knockouts. Three months prior to his retirement announcement, Crawford defeated Canelo Álvarez in Las Vegas to become the undisputed super-middleweight champion. Earlier in 2023, he unified the welterweight titles by defeating Errol Spence Jr.
Crawford joins an elite group of male boxers by winning world titles in five divisions, alongside legends such as Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, and Manny Pacquiao. He is one of three to hold lineal championships in four weight classes, sharing this distinction with Mayweather and Pacquiao. Additionally, Crawford is the second man ever to become undisputed champion in three weight classes, after Henry Armstrong in 1938.
Originally from Omaha, Nebraska's North 33rd Street, Crawford has remained rooted in his hometown despite global success. He survived a gunshot incident in a car in 2008 and is described as boxing's most reliable problem-solver, with the ability to switch seamlessly between orthodox and southpaw stances to dismantle opponents by studying and rearranging angles.
If Crawford never returns to competition, his legacy is secure among the pound-for-pound elites, with only fighters like Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk considered serious comparisons to his career achievements.
