{"id":537058,"date":"2025-10-30T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:56:11","slug":"terence-crawford-considers-it-bittersweet-to-get-flowers-toward-end-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537058\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford Considers It \u2018Bittersweet\u2019 To Get Flowers Toward End Of His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> accomplished a menu of monumental accolades when he stepped up two weight classes to beat Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in a career-best and historic win in Las Vegas last month.
With the convincing unanimous-decision victory<\/a>, Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) became The Ring and undisputed super middleweight champion, a five-division titleholder, the first three-weight undisputed champion among male boxers and the pound-for-pound king of the sport.
Now, many are encouraging Crawford to make a run at middleweight to pursue titles in a sixth weight class<\/a>. Crawford is open to the idea, but he also realizes the potential prizes he\u2019ll be awarded won\u2019t carry the same weight as beating the Mexican superstar who was once No. 1 on most pound-for-pound lists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know [what\u2019s left for me to accomplish.] Anything that I do now, it won\u2019t be like something that I really wanted to do,\u201d Crawford said Tuesday in an interview with Bernardo Osuna and Claudia Trejos at the WBO Convention in Bogota, Colombia. \u201cIt would be something that I just want to add to my legacy. I don\u2019t think anything gets bigger than Canelo at this moment. There is no fighter out there with the accolades, with the name recognition of a Canelo Alvarez, or a Terence Crawford. … There is not another fighter out there with the caliber of accomplishments that I can actually say that I would get that recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good to finally get my recognition, my flowers, and my just due after being railroaded and doubted for so many years. It\u2019s a good feeling. But it\u2019s a bittersweet feeling when it\u2019s at the tail end of your career.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the expectation is for Crawford to fight once again, the Omaha, Nebraska native also hasn\u2019t ruled out retirement. He has, however, shunned a return to 154 pounds and an improbable run at 175 pounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeeling [like I am at the tail end of my career] and being realistically speaking is different. I feel great,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cBut I am 38. That\u2019s one thing that we have to remind ourselves of. Father Time catches up on you sooner or later. The things that I go through in camp now, I never went through it when I was 30. I am definitely putting in more time in recovery than I ever did in my whole career. But at the same time, I feel that I am at the peak of my career as well. You just go with it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford left the Alvarez fight unscathed, but the same could not be said for his counterpart, who has since undergone arthroscopic surgery on his left elbow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crawford was awarded scores of 116-112 and 115-113 twice and showed a rare moment of emotion when he fell to his knees once he was announced as the winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I won hands down,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cEverybody thought that I couldn\u2019t do it. So many people were saying there\u2019s never been a little guy that beat the big guy. There were so many doubters. There were so many people that talked bad about me, that I never fought anybody. That\u2019s the narrative. Everything that I went through my entire career was for this one night. It could have been tarnished, or I could get everything that I ever asked for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing they can say or do about it. I\u2019m on top of the world, and all of the emotions flared in my body, like, \u2018Look how far you came.\u2019 … By me doing everything that I wanted to do, my way, led me to this moment, and that\u2019s the top of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan.<\/p>\n

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