Last man to beat Terence Crawford explains how to dethrone the 42-0 pound-for-pound king

How to beat Terence Crawford

Terence Crawford looked unbeatable when he jumped up two weight classes to take Canelo Alvarez’s undisputed super middleweight championship last month.

Post-fight, his old amateur rival explained how to get the better of the pound-for-pound best boxer on the planet.

“You’ve got to punch with Crawford, you’ve got to counter him while punching with him,” Miguel Gonzalez said on The Porterway Podcast.

“You have got to bang the body and stay on top of Crawford. Fight him in that phone booth if you can.

“As I remember, that is exactly what I did.

“What tripped me out was that he got low in the ring, he cut his height down. I had a field day with that

“He should have stayed tall. You know, he cut his height down, and I stayed on his chest.

“What I always thought about Crawford was that he is easily taken out of his fight.

“Maybe he fought his fight, but I thought he fought my fight.

“You can easily get ‘Bud’ to fight you. In all of Bud’s fights, Bud fights you.

“When I see ‘Bud’ fighting, if you catch him, he wants to catch you back.

“Bud isn’t running from nobody, and that is where I felt I had the upper hand in our competition.”

Terence Crawford is contemplating retirement

Terence Crawford was immediately asked about potentially retiring after his win over Canelo Alvarez.

The 38-year-old played coy, but didn’t rule out walking away from the sport at the top of his game.

Earlier this month, Crawford provided a new update on his potential retirement from boxing.

“To be honest, I don’t know what I’m gonna do,” he said on the All The Smoke Fight podcast. “Like I said, everything is up in the air right now. I’m just enjoying my family, enjoying being able to say, ‘Look what I accomplished.’

“I’m just chilling, right now, I haven’t even got the time to sit down with my team and talk with them.

“I talked with my family. I know what my family want. But you know, it’s a team effort.”