Terence Crawford retires from boxing: 'Nothing else left to prove' - ESPN

Five-division champion Terence Crawford announced Tuesday that he has retired from boxing.

The announcement came just three months after Crawford became the only boxer in the four-belt era to become an undisputed champion in three weight classes, accomplishing the feat when he defeated Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super middleweight championship in September.

Crawford posted on social media that he was «walking away as a great with nothing else left to prove.»

«I'm stepping away from competition, not because I'm done fighting but because I've won a different kind of battle. The one where you walk away on your own terms,» Crawford said on his YouTube channel. «This isn't goodbye, this is the end of one fight and the beginning of another.»

He added: «I gave this sport every breath I had. Every scar, every triumph, every ounce of my heart. I've made peace with what's next. And now, it's time. Thank you.»

Crawford, 38, retires from the sport with a 42-0 record, with 31 wins coming by knockout. In addition to being undisputed at super middleweight, he became undisputed in the welterweight division when he defeated Errol Spence Jr. by knockout in July 2023 and was the undisputed champion of the junior welterweight division when he stopped Julius Indongo in August 2017.

Crawford has held 18 major world championships across five weight classes: lightweight, junior welterweight, welterweight, junior middleweight and super middleweight. He topped ESPN's Top 100 fighters of 2025 and retired as the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.

«I spent my whole life chasing something,» Crawford said. «Not belts, not money, not headlines. But that feeling, the one you get when the world doubts you and you keep showing up and you