Terence Crawford was accompanied by rapping legend Eminem for his ring walk ahead of his bout against Errol Spence Jr.
On Saturday night, Crawford and Spence Jr battled inside the ring at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the undisputed welterweight crown.
Ahead of the fight, Crawford walked out to Lose Yourself by Eminem and the rapper also joined the ring walk. You can watch the footage below.
Fans were quick to react to the ring walk on social media.
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One said: “It was over the second this happened.”
Another tweeted: “How can you lose after that walk out?”
A third fan added: “This gotta be the greatest walkout in boxing history!”
Someone else wrote: “Epic Song and Epic Performance from Crawford.”
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Whilst a fifth commented: “Nah I knew Bud was winning this fight the second he came out to this.”
Crawford was the dominant force during the fight as he knocked Spence down in the second round, before flooring his opponent twice in the seventh before referee Harvey Dock stopped the fight at the 2:32 mark of round nine.
After the fight, Crawford said: “I only dreamed of being a world champion.
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“I’m an overachiever. Nobody believed in me when I was coming up, but I made everybody a believer. I want to thank Spence and his team because without him none of this would have been possible.”
He added: “It was a good stoppage.
“I was on the verge of coming back with some hard shots. Everybody knows I’m a great finisher. The ref did what he was supposed to do to protect the fighter.”
Whilst Spence said: “He was just throwing the hard jab.
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“He was timing with his jab. His timing was just on point. I wasn’t surprised by his speed or his accuracy. It was everything I thought.”
After the victory against Spence, Crawford has now extended his streak of 11 straight knockouts.
He has also knocked out all eight of his opponents since moving up to 147Ibs.
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