Terence Crawford spent a year insisting he was done with boxing. On Wednesday morning he went on X, typed “Maybe one more!” and then started shopping for an opponent. The name he settled on happens to be the one Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been circling for his own return. As Bloody Elbow reported, Crawford aimed a 160-pound offer at Ryan Garcia, the current WBC welterweight champion.
“What’s up @RyanGarcia 160?” Crawford wrote. A little later he followed up with what read like a jab at the whole arrangement: “My bad Ryan Garcia, you got Mayweather to focus on, I forgot.”
Garcia wasn’t his first stop. Crawford opened with Gervonta Davis, framing it as a fight he’d take if the scale allowed. “I wish I was at 135lbs, I’ll stop Tank. He talks too much, but be picking and choosing. But we know he would come up with excuses like he does with Shakur (Stevenson),” he wrote. Davis hasn’t fought since his March 2025 draw with Lamont Roach Jr. He has since faced legal issues tied to alleged domestic violence. The weight gap between the two makes that one fantasy anyway.
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Where everyone stands
Crawford is 39 and 42-0. He retired after beating Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super middleweight title, a result that put a fitting last line on a career that wandered from 147 to 168 pounds. He has held the retirement line ever since, even as Dana White said he thought he could coax Crawford back. So 160 is, by his own history, a reasonable middle ground. For Garcia it’s a big ask. The 28-year-old’s recent fights have all been at 147.
Then there’s Mayweather, the former five-weight world champion, who announced another exhibition earlier this week. He billed it as a tune-up for a fight with Garcia, and Garcia says talks have started. Skepticism is fair. Mayweather’s planned exhibitions with Mike Zambidis, Mike Tyson and Manny Pacquiao never happened this year. The Zambidis date fell apart over legal complications, and the Pacquiao and Tyson fights were postponed indefinitely.
Quick take
Crawford’s pitch is the more serious boxing proposition, and that’s exactly why I’d bet against Garcia taking it. A Mayweather exhibition carries a big check and almost no risk to a welterweight title. A real fight 13 pounds north of his last several outings, against a man who just made Canelo look ordinary, carries all the risk there is. What Crawford did well on Wednesday was use the timing. Mayweather’s comeback has spent the year announcing fights that never arrive, and Crawford stepped into that gap with a cleaner offer and a full résumé behind it. If the Mayweather tune-up goes the way of Zambidis, Tyson and Pacquiao, Garcia’s phone is going to get a lot harder to ignore.
