In the most anticipated fight this year, Terence Crawford dominated Errol Spence Jr. in a battle between the two current best welterweights in boxing. And it wasn’t close, as Crawford knocked down Spence three times en route to a ninth-round TKO win at a packed T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) became the first men’s undisputed welterweight champion in the four-belt era. He’s the only men’s fighter in boxing to be undisputed (four belts) in two different divisions. Crawford won all the titles at junior welterweight in 2017 before moving up to welterweight. Claressa Shields is a two-division undisputed champion in women’s boxing having captured all four belts at junior middleweight and middleweight.
Crawford’s victory was so dominant that Spence (28-1, 22 KOs), the former No. 4 pound-for-pound, falls out of the top 10.
But Crawford wasn’t the only top fighter to shine this past week. Naoya Inoue, No. 2 P4P, produced and impressive as dominant performance against Stephen Fulton to win two junior featherweight world titles. Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs), is a former undisputed bantamweight champion who moved up in weight looking for bigger and better challenges. His performance on July 25 in Japan was good enough to make a claim for the No. 1 spot, but then Crawford had a…
