Historic moments in professional sports are often defined by the value of what’s at stake, which would already make Terence Crawford’s ninth-round TKO of fellow unbeaten Errol Spence Jr. in Saturday’s first four-belt undisputed welterweight title fight a monumental affair.
Add in the fact that the 35-year-old Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) also became the first male boxer to capture the undisputed championship in two weight divisions since the four-belt era began in 1988 (joining women’s pound-for-pound queen Claressa Shields), and it only sweetens the pot as to how important this stunningly one-sided performance truly was.
Yet even those lofty accolades can’t do justice to how virtuoso and jaw-dropping Crawford’s performance actually was.
In a true 50/50 matchup on paper between two of the best and most accomplished boxers of the modern era, during the same week that four-division champion Naoya Inoue attempted to secure his stranglehold atop the sport’s pound-for-pound rankings, Crawford somehow found a way to have the last word.
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