Terence Crawford selected BWAA 2025 Fighter of the Year
Terence Crawford, who moved up two weight classes to defeat then-undisputed super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in last September’s mega-fight, was named the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) 2025 Fighter of the Year.
The voting marked the second time Crawford has won the BWAA’s Fighter of the Year award, with more than a decade having passed since he was named 2014 FOTY.
The other 2025 Fighter of the Year nominees in the male category were Dmitry Bivol, Naoya Inoue, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez and Rene Santiago.
Crawford fought just once in 2025, but the magnitude of the win over Alvarez – still considered by many to be the proverbial “face of boxing” – superseded the collective efforts of all other fighters. “Bud” didn’t merely beat Alvarez – he achieved history while outclassing a future Hall of Famer over 12 rounds on a Mexican Independence Day weekend that for years has been a featured slot for Canelo. The win made Crawford, of Omaha, Nebraska, a five-division world titleholder and the first male boxer in the four-belt era to hold undisputed titles in three different weight classes. With no lands left to conquer, Crawford, 42-0 (31 KOs), retired last December at age 38.
