{"id":660302,"date":"2025-12-29T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660302\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:09:11","slug":"crawford-says-168-pounds-was-his-most-comfortable-fighting-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660302\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawford says 168 pounds was his most comfortable fighting weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/terence-crawford-98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terence Crawford<\/a> first flirted with the idea of moving up to 168 pounds to take on <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/saul-alvarez-77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, most believed he lost his mind. <br \/>No one questioned his skill set, but, at the time, he&#8217;d never fought above 154. Nevertheless, he had no trouble with the bigger man en route to a <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/canelo-alvarez-vs-terence-crawford-result-netflix-undisputed-super-middleweight-champion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convincing unanimous decision victory<\/a> on September 13.<br \/>Crawford, who has since <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/terence-crawford-38-retires-from-boxing-three-months-after-beating-canelo-alvarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his retirement<\/a> at 38, said 168 was his perfect weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c168,\u201d Crawford told Adin Ross, a popular online streamer, when asked which weight class he felt most comfortable in. \u201cDefinitely 168.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Crawford, who started his career as a 135-pounder, leaves the game as a five-division champion and a three-time undisputed titlist.<\/p>\n<p>He now wonders how he was able to squeeze down to those lower weight classes earlier in his career. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was obviously smaller, but I was killing myself to make that weight,\u201d said Crawford said, referring to 135 pounds. \u201cIt was the same way with 140.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Terence Crawford first flirted with the idea of moving up to 168 pounds to take on Canelo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-660302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803020543664705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660302","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=660302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}