Terence Crawford

Terence Allan Crawford (born September 28, 1987) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2025. He retired with an undefeated record and won 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. He is the second male boxer in history to become a three-weight undisputed world champion. In the four-belt era, Crawford became the first male boxer to capture the undisputed championship in two and three divisions, and the first to achieve undisputed status at both light welterweight and welterweight.

In 2014, Crawford traveled overseas to face Ricky Burns and won his first world championship, the WBO lightweight title. After two successful defenses, he moved up to light welterweight in 2015 and defeated Thomas Dulorme to claim the vacant WBO light welterweight title. In 2017, Crawford became the undisputed light welterweight champion—the first since Kostya Tszyu in 2004—and the first boxer in any weight class to simultaneously hold all four major world titles since Jermain Taylor in 2005. In 2023, he defeated Errol Spence Jr. to become the undisputed welterweight champion, the first since Zab Judah in 2006. In 2024, Crawford moved up to light middleweight and defeated Israil Madrimov to become a four-division world champion. In 2025, he defeated Canelo Álvarez by unanimous decision to capture the undisputed super middleweight championship, becoming one of only six male boxers in history to win world titles in five divisions.

Crawford is the only boxer in history to hold The Ring magazine title in four divisions and joined Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. as the only fighters to become four-division lineal champions. He is also one of only two boxers to have won world titles at both lightweight and super middleweight. Throughout his 17-year professional career, Crawford was never knocked down, nor did a single judge ever score a fight in favor of his opponent. His streak of 11 consecutive knockouts in world title fights is tied for the third longest in boxing history.

Crawford was named Fighter of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) in 2014, and by ESPN in 2014 and 2017. He received the Best Fighter/Boxer ESPY Award in 2018 and 2024. Consistently ranked among the top boxers of his generation, Crawford is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. In 2025, The Ring magazine ranked him as the third-greatest pound-for-pound boxer of the 21st century. He was recognized as the world's top pound-for-pound boxer by the BWAA from October 2017 to May 2018, again in June 2022, and by The Ring from July 2023 to May 2024 and again from September to December 2025.