Terence Crawford has cast his eye over the banner division to give his view on the best of the competition outside of Oleksandr Usyk.
Like Crawford, Uysk is one of boxing’s very few undisputed champions. He achieved that accolade in the cruiserweight division back in 2018 before moving up to heavyweight and doing the same in 2024, having beaten all of Anthony Joshua, Daniel Dubois and Tyson Fury twice.
Crawford went one better before retiring by becoming only the third man in history to be undisputed in three weight divisions – light welterweight, welterweight and super middleweight.
In a new post on X, Crawford invited questions from fans. One asked him about the best heavyweight aside from Usyk, and he had just one answer.
“Tyson [Fury].”
Fury has had two separate reigns as heavyweight champion – the first after a superb win on away soil in Germany when he beat the long-reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
He then took time away from the sport, before coming back and working his way to a world title shot with WBC champion Deontay Wilder. After drawing the first match, he stopped Wilder in the next two to become the WBC ruler and kept the belt until his back-to-back defeats to Usyk in 2024.
Another period of retirement followed, but he returns in April against Arslanbek Makmuhdov in what will surely be the final part of his boxing career as younger fighters like WBO champion Fabio Wardley and rising star Moses Itauma try to stamp their authority on the changing division.
