Terence Crawford is over 40 fights into what has been an accomplished professional career to date.
The 37-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska made his debut back in 2008 and since then he has gone on to capture world titles across four weight classes, including the undisputed championship at super-lightweight and welterweight.
He boasts victories over a number of top rated fighters such as Shawn Porter, Amir Khan, Israil Madrimov and Errol Spence Jr, defeating the latter to become boxing’s first undisputed champion at 147lbs within the ‘four belt era’.
‘Bud’ is now just over one week away from the test of the highest magnitude as he gears up to challenge Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super-middleweight championship on September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Ahead of that fight Crawford has been speaking on the FULL SEND PODCAST, and when asked which past opponent hit him the hardest, Crawford didn’t hesitate to name Cuba’s Yuriorkis Gamboa as the one to do so, as he claims the former featherweight world champion made his body ‘feel stiff’ after catching him with big shots.
“Got to be [Yuriorkis] Gamboa … It’s just that he caught me off guard, coming in with my hands down, being cocky, things like that and he just caught me to where my whole one side of my body got stiff, so it was just like ‘boom’ he shocked me.”
Crawford stopped Gamboa in the ninth round of their world title bout at the Century Link Center in Omaha back in June 2014, making the maiden defence of his WBO world lightweight title in the process.
The Cuban last competed in April 2022, suffering a fifth round stoppage loss to Isaac Cruz to take his record to 30 wins and 5 defeats. He has since been involved in legal trouble that has kept him our of the ring.
