Terence Crawford is hanging up his boxing gloves months after changing into the undisputed champion in three weight courses by defeating Canelo Alvarez.
Crawford, 38, introduced he was retiring from the game on Tuesday in a video posted throughout his social media and on YouTube, stepping away from the ring with a 42-0 report — with 31 wins coming through knockout.
“I’m stepping away from competitors, not as a result of I’m achieved preventing however as a result of I’ve received a special type of battle. The one the place you stroll away by yourself phrases,” he mentioned in a YouTube video saying the choice. “This isn’t goodbye, that is the top of 1 combat and the start of one other.”
Crawford is the one boxer within the four-belt period to have been an undisputed champ in three weight courses, proudly owning the titles within the tremendous middleweight division, welterweight division and the junior welterweight division.
The 38-year-old boxer held 18 main world championships over 5 weight courses and is the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter.
It was his knockout of Alvarez that made him the undisputed tremendous middleweight champion in September, as 41 million viewers tuned in to observe the combat on Netflix.
Crawford additionally had victories over Errol Spence Jr., Shawn Porter, Kell Brook and Amir Khan over the course of his profession.
“I spent my complete life chasing one thing,” Crawford mentioned in his announcement video. “Not belts, not cash, not headlines. However that feeling, the one you get when the world doubts you, however you retain exhibiting up and you retain proving everybody incorrect. This sport gave me all the things. I fought for my household, I fought for my metropolis. I fought for the child I was, the one who had nothing however a dream and a pair of gloves. And I did all of it my means. I gave this sport each breath I had.”
Crawford retires as arguably among the best boxers of his era.
Solely Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao have received titles in additional weight courses than Crawford.
