Terence Crawford has been retired for eight months, and the fight people keep proposing to bring him back is one Tim Bradley thinks holds no interest for him at all.
Crawford walked away on December 16 with a 42-0 record, three months after outpointing Canelo Alvarez to become the only man to go undisputed in three weight classes in the four-belt era. The name most often floated as a reason to return is Jaron Ennis.
Bradley, speaking on his YouTube channel, does not see the appeal.
Boots ain’t got nothing that Crawford needs, nothing at all.
He did leave one door open.
Well, Boots … if you go up to 160 and you wipe out the whole division and you win all the straps there, maybe that might be enticing.
That is a tall order. Ennis is a two-division champion who took the WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles off Xander Zayas with a seventh-round stoppage in June, and is widely seen as the best at 154. He has not yet fought fellow champions Sebastian Fundora or Josh Kelly, both of which are on his radar, and going undisputed at middleweight would mean moving up again and starting over.
Ennis has wanted Crawford for a long time. He was the IBF mandatory at welterweight in 2023 when Crawford stopped Errol Spence Jr., and has raised it repeatedly since.
Eddie Hearn recently said he considers Ennis the pound-for-pound number one and put him in the same conversation as Crawford, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Pernell Whitaker.
