Terence Crawford accomplished a menu of monumental accolades when he stepped up two weight classes to beat Canelo Alvarez in a career-best and historic win in Las Vegas last month.

With the convincing unanimous-decision victory, Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) became The Ring and undisputed super middleweight champion, a five-division titleholder, the first three-weight undisputed champion among male boxers and the pound-for-pound king of the sport.

Now, many are encouraging Crawford to make a run at middleweight to pursue titles in a sixth weight class. Crawford is open to the idea, but he also realizes the potential prizes he’ll be awarded won’t carry the same weight as beating the Mexican superstar who was once No. 1 on most pound-for-pound lists.

“I don’t know [what’s left for me to accomplish.] Anything that I do now, it won’t be like something that I really wanted to do,” Crawford said Tuesday in an interview with Bernardo Osuna and Claudia Trejos at the WBO Convention in Bogota, Colombia. “It would be something that I just want to add to my legacy. I don’t think anything gets bigger than Canelo at this moment. There is no fighter out there with the accolades, with the name recognition of a Canelo Alvarez, or a Terence Crawford. ... There is not another fighter out there with the caliber of accomplishments that I can actually say that I would get that recognition.

“It feels good to finally get my recognition, my flowers, and my just due after being railroaded and doubted for so many years. It’s a good feeling. But it’s a bittersweet feeling when it’s at the tail end of your career.”

While the expectation is for Crawford to fight once again, the Omaha, Nebraska native also hasn’t ruled out retirement. He has, however, shunned a return to 154 pounds and an improbable run at 175 pounds.

“Feeling [like I am at the tail end of my career] and being realistically speaking is different. I feel great,” Crawford said. “But I am 38. That’s one thing that we have to remind ourselves of. Father Time catches up on you sooner or later. The things that I go through in camp now, I never went through it when I was 30. I am definitely putting in more time in recovery than I ever did in my whole career. But at the same time, I feel that I am at the peak of my career as well. You just go with it day by day.”

Crawford left the Alvarez fight unscathed, but the same could not be said for his counterpart, who has since undergone arthroscopic surgery on his left elbow.

Crawford was awarded scores of 116-112 and 115-113 twice and showed a rare moment of emotion when he fell to his knees once he was announced as the winner.

“I knew I won hands down,” Crawford said. “Everybody thought that I couldn’t do it. So many people were saying there’s never been a little guy that beat the big guy. There were so many doubters. There were so many people that talked bad about me, that I never fought anybody. That’s the narrative. Everything that I went through my entire career was for this one night. It could have been tarnished, or I could get everything that I ever asked for.

“There is nothing they can say or do about it. I’m on top of the world, and all of the emotions flared in my body, like, ‘Look how far you came.’ ... By me doing everything that I wanted to do, my way, led me to this moment, and that’s the top of the world.”