Five-division champion Terence Crawford announced Tuesday that he has retired from boxing.
The announcement came just three months after Crawford became the only boxer in the four-belt era to become an undisputed champion in three weight classes, accomplishing the feat when he defeated Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super middleweight championship in September.
Crawford posted on social media that he was “walking away as a great with nothing else left to prove.”
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“I’m stepping away from competition, not because I’m done fighting but because I’ve won a different kind of battle. The one where you walk away on your own terms,” Crawford said on his YouTube channel. “This isn’t goodbye, this is the end of one fight and the beginning of another.”
He added: “I gave this sport every breath I had. Every scar, every triumph, every ounce of my heart. I’ve made peace with what’s next. And now, it’s time. Thank you.”
Crawford, 38, retires from the sport with a 42-0 record, with 31 wins coming by knockout. In addition to being undisputed at super middleweight, he became undisputed in the welterweight division when he defeated Errol Spence Jr. by knockout in July 2023 and was the undisputed champion of the junior welterweight division when he stopped Julius Indongo in August 2017.
Crawford has held 18 major world championships across five weight classes: lightweight, junior welterweight, welterweight, junior middleweight and super middleweight. Fighting out of Omaha, Nebraska, Crawford made his professional debut in 2008 after falling short in his bid to make the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. His debut wasn’t met with as much fanfare as his peers’, and he flew under the radar until he stepped in on three days’ notice to face Breidis Prescott for his first televised fight in the co-main event of the Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado 2 card on HBO in 2013. He easily outpointed Prescott and went on to win his first major world title by defeating Ricky Burns for the WBO lightweight title in 2014.
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erence Allan Crawford is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2025. He has held 18 different major world championships in five weight classes from lightweight to super middleweight, including the undisputed championships at light welterweight, welterweight, and super middleweight.
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