What legacy does Crawford leave after retiring?

What legacy does Crawford leave after retiring from boxing in 2025 now the dust has settled on the move. Quite a lot.

One of the greatest in fact ever seen in the history of professional fighting on this planet.

Crawford went form lightweight world champion all the way up to super-middleweight world champion and not only that, did so by fighting the best all along the way in his run in pro boxing.

Outpointing Canelo Alvarez to reign supreme at 168 pounds the way he did, moving up two weight classes at the time from super welterweight, is something that surely no one will ever do again.

A unique unrivalled man in boxing for his time.

In many ways his legacy exists posts the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao time frames in the sport.

He is on his own and out there on his own as the best boxer of his time, Mayweather the best of his particular time before that in the entire sport.

Crawford also travelled the world and battered champions in many countries, Ricky Burns, Kell Brook to name a few.

He ended the debate who would win between him and his career rival Errol Spence Jr emphatically when they boxed, busting him up and dismantling him systematically while showing his unpredictable genius at points in the contest, then knocking him out.

Effectively ending Errol Spence in top flight elite world championship boxing.

He hasn’t boxed since at the time of this article in 2026 — that beating and knockout being all the way back in 2023 now.

Alas, Terence Crawford went far beyond professional boxing and professional sport in America and beyond worldwide.

Him and his coach Bomac proved those that believed in them all along right and proved the naysayers wrong to become one of the great teams in boxing, and American, history.

Terence Crawford survived being shot early on in life, going from attempts on his life to life and death situations in life, to prove an old saying true in life.

It is not where you start that counts in life but where you finish.

Terence Crawford is one of the best boxers that ever lived.