{"id":398134,"date":"2025-09-04T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398134\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:21:10","slug":"terence-crawford-reveals-surprising-choice-for-best-ufc-boxer-and-its-not-ilia-topuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398134\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford reveals surprising choice for best UFC boxer \u2014 and it\u2019s not Ilia Topuria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Terence Crawford is going against the norm when it comes to who the best boxer in the UFC is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crawford is getting set to face Canelo Alvarez in a huge boxing bout on Sept. 13 in Las Vegas \u2014 which is being co-promoted by UFC CEO Dana White. With that, Crawford spoke with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nkFhj4UqyVc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full Send Podcast<\/a> and was asked who the best boxer in the UFC is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Surprisingly, Crawford didn\u2019t go with lightweight champ Ilia Topuria, he chose former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s my guy, Cody [Garbrandt],\u201d Crawford said. \u201cHe\u2019s the best UFC boxer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crawford puts his undefeated boxing record on the line in one of the biggest fights of 2025. \u201cBud\u201d has solidified himself as one of the sport\u2019s best pound-for-pound fighters and looks to carry that over into the bout with Alvarez, who is on a six-fight win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite the host full on trying to sell Topuria to Crawford as the UFC\u2019s best pugilist, Crawford stuck to his guns and explained why he believes Garbrandt is better at pure boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYeah, but I don\u2019t know, man, Cody\u2019s got those hands,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cBut I\u2019m saying, when you\u2019re talking about straight boxing, we ain\u2019t talking about nothing else, we\u2019re talking about straight boxing skills, I just think Cody\u2019s got the best boxing skills in the UFC. But that\u2019s just my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford is going against the norm when it comes to who the best boxer in the UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,1501,79,5706,12137,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-ufc","13":"tag-ufc-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115147891344373016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}