Steve Bunce, BBC Radio 5 Live boxing commentator
Terence Crawford is not the first fighter to suddenly vanish when he’s at his peak.
And guess what – wait for it – he won’t be the first fighter to suddenly come back after vanishing. I think he’ll come back.
And there’s one big problem – when you’re Terence Crawford, and your last fight was as the underdog, beating the great Saul Canelo Alvarez, in front of 70,000 people outdoors in Las Vegas, that’s an awful lot of success.
But what’s more, he got millions and millions and millions for it.
It’s really hard to fight after that, for 10% of that or half of that, even if it’s 10 million dollars. If you’ve made 30, 40 or 50, 10 million is not very much money.
So will he come back? I think so.
If he stays retired, it’ll be one of the greatest retirements in boxing history.
Unbeaten, champion at all those weights, untouchable, regal, and he goes. That’s what I’d like to see.
