Terence Crawford: The Most Significant Win in Boxing History?

This May Statement, But I Feel Terence’s Crawford’s Win Canelo Alvarez Last Saturday Night is the Most Significant Single Win in Boxing History. Throw Another At Me, and I’t Happy to Debate or Be Proved Wrong. I Hate in this Day and Age When I See Social Media Feeds About The Greatest Fighters or Fights and Those Act Like Boxing Didn’t Exist Before Mike Tyson.

I, Howwever, Love Boxing History, and I’m Going Tunney Defeating Jack Dempsey, Henry Armstrong Reccoming 3-Weight Champion, Beating Barney Ross, And Then Lou Ambers. Still, in Racking My Brain and Going Back to Armost A Century, I Can’t See Past What Terence Crawford has Just Done. My Number 1 Fighter is Sugar Ray Robinson, But Even HE Fell Short When Attempting Light Heavyweight Greatness, Losing to Joey Maxim (Heat Exhaustion). Crawford’s Achievement Over The Weekend Is Simply Incredible.

Including Crawford’s Win Last Night, I’m Going Best Win Fighters Moving Up Two Weight Divisions and Ultimately What Victory Means for Crawford’s Legacy.

Top 5

First, I Will Give A Couple Of Honorable Mentions Those Who didn’t quite Make The List. Oscar de la Hoya Have a Shot Fighter When He Faced Manny Pacquiao, But The Ease With The Filipino Fighter Dispatched with Oscar Speed ​​and Angles Was Jaw-dropping. It Cemented Him as A Superstar, Bypassing The 140lb Division to Face Legend.

Adren Broner Also Skipped 140lbs When He Faced Paulie Malignaggi to Take His Title Via Split Decision. A Good Win, But in Fairness, When Broner Food Natural Wellweights, He struggled.

# 5: Bernard Hopkins 46-4-1 v Antonio Tarver 24-3 on 10th October 2006

Bernard Hopkins Seemed HE Was Going to Spend His Career As A Middleweight Champion After Making 20 Defense of His Belts Before Losing Them to Jermaine Taylor. Bernard, Well Into His 40s By Point, Decided to Skip 168 Pounds and Go Straight to Antonio Tarver at Light Heavyweight.

Tarver Was On A Good Run, Having Beaten Roy Jones Twice and Securing Win Over Glen Johnson. It Seemed A Tough Ask, But ‘The Executioner’ Won Nearly Every Round. Bernard Went On To Defy The Odds for Several Years to Come.

# 4: Roy Jones JNR 47-1 V John Ruiz 34-4-1 on 1st March 2003

People of People Should Higher. It felt Really Significant at The Time. Roy Was The P4P Number 1, and Like Like Would Like Undefeated Dariusz Michalchewski to Become Undisputed Or Possibly Move Up to Cruiserweight to Face Vassily Jurov.

Roy Was Going for Legacy, Though, And Bypassed The 190lb Division to Face WBA Champion John Ruiz. Someone So Small Becoming A Heavyweight Champion Seemed Unthinkable. IF Roy Had Challenged And Beaten Lennox Lewis, It Would Be Probably Be 1. Moving Up Two Divisions To Heavyweight Isn’t That Just Num; The Guy You’re Facing Could Still Be 50lbs Heavier Than You.

The Other Champions at The Time Were Chris Byrd (IBF) and The Late Corrie Sanders (WBO). In Fairness, John Ruiz Was No Joke. Hey Had come off the back of a Trilogy Against Evander Holyfield (Win, Loss, Draw) and Just Defeat The Talented Kirk Johnson. Ruiz Was Hard To Look Good Against: Tough, Rugged, Strong, And Powerful.

Ruiz Tried to Rush, But Royway Control From Round 3. It was a Truly Epic Performance, And at 33 Years Old, He Could Retired As One Of The Greatest Ever. Unfortunately, Roy Was Still 20 Years Later, But Nobody Can Take Away What He Achieved That Day.

# 3: Shane Mosley 34-0 v Oscar de la Hoya 32-1 on 17th June 2000

At This Point, Sugar and Goldenboy Were Considered Top P4P Fighters, But Shane Was a Lightweight, With Oscar a Welterweight. De La Hoya Had Once Once, Controversially To Felix Trinidad, With Most Feeling He Had Done Enough to Win. This is a Fight I Would You Would Anyone Watch.

High-Level Technical Chess Match With The Right Amount of Action. At this point, Shane Looked Unbeatable and Wermout a Doubt Pound for Pound Number # 1. Unfortunately, Hey Was Its. He Came Up Against The Late Vernan Forrest, Losing Back-to-Back Contests, Although He Still Went on a Stellar Career.

# 2: Ray Leonard 33-1 V Marvin Hagler 62-2-2 on 6th April 1987

This Really Is The Only Win That Comes Close to What Crawford Did Saturday. Hagler’s Record is remarkably similar to that of Canelo’s. Marvelous Seemed Unbeatable, Mean, Strong, Powerful, War.

Leonard was Was a Welterweight and Hadn’t Fought in 3 Years. In His Last Outing, He Looked Extremely Underwhelming Against Kevin Howard, Hitting The Deck And Looking Easy to Punch. Many Feel Hagler Won This Fight, But Having Watched It So Many Times, He Just Started Too Slow and Picked The Wrong Stance. Sugar Ray Cemented Himself A Top 10 Fighter of All Time With This Victory.

# 1: Terence Crawford 41-0 v Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez 63-2-2 on 13th September 2025

Seeing as Crawford Had Only Fight Once at 154 pounds, One Could Arguue Has Essentially Moved Up Three Divisions. Unlike When Broner or Jones Moved Up, Taking Lesser Champions, Crawford Fought The Man.

Even Canele Himself, When He Moved Up, Tok On A Declining Kovalev Rather Than Bivol or Beterbiev. People Really Need to Understand That What Crawford Did Shouldn’t Be Possible. Yes, Canele Might Be in Decline, But he has started Still Unbeaten Three in Boxers in His Last Three Bouts.

He’s Much More Active Than Crawford, With The American Turning 38 This month. When Bud Beat Rol Spence, I Thought That Win, The Legacy Win, Top 25 of All Time, One of the Best of His. The Idea Of Him Topping That Fighting Canelo Seemed Absurd, But He’s Done. For Me, This Puts Him in The Top 5 of All Time and In The Conversation For The Best Ever. It’s Time He got HIS RESPECT.

Epilogue: I Must Take a Moment to Pay My Respects to Ricky Hatton. I Met Him At The Scott Harrison V Wayne McCullough Fight Alongside Oher Late Great Johnny Tapia. Ricky Was So Genderous With His Time; He will be remembered as a man of the people, More Than a Boxer. Seeing Him Beat Tszyu Live Was The Greatest Atmosphere I’ve Ever to Be. An Entire City and Nation Him And Threw Him With Him and Threw Him. He Will Be Soraly Missed, A True Legend.