{"id":148319,"date":"2025-09-16T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:43:07","slug":"team-crawford-uninterested-in-benavidez-and-ennis-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148319\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Crawford Uninterested In Benavidez And Ennis Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the win, Crawford didn\u2019t give concrete plans regarding his next move, instead saying he will be taking some time to relax and rest following his mega-fight against of the greatest to ever do it. When asked about a potential fight against David Benavidez, Brian \u2018BoMac\u2019 McIntyre \u2014 Crawford\u2019s head trainer \u2014 told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2k3ggKChrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight Hub TV<\/a> that is simply not on the team\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNo, we ain\u2019t doing that fight. No, we\u2019re not going to vacate the belts. We\u2019re just going to sit where we need to sit for a minute, and then get back in the gym, and do our thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Mexican Monster\u201d \u2014 who is 30-0 with 24 knockouts \u2014 is the current WBA regular Light Heavyweight champion, but he has competed at Super Middleweight for the majority of his career, winning titles in 2017 and 2022. He then moved up to Light Heavyweight in 2024 and won the WBC interim strap. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FNCI4Om1gDI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had been lobbying for a fight against Canelo <\/a>for a long time, but Alvarez was never too interested in the showdown, opting to face Crawford, instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crawford (42-0, 31 knockouts) is the first male boxer to become undisputed across three separate divisions, leaving many to wonder if \u201cBud\u201d has any reason to continue fighting, other than to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/388771\/canelo-crawford-fight-purses-alvarez-100-million-six-figure-bonus-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collect bigger paychecks<\/a>, of course. He\u2019s already proven he can move up a couple of weight classes to take on and defeat the best, so one can see why a fight with Benavidez is intriguing to many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for dropping down to Welterweight to face current WBA champion, Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis \u2014 who is 34-0 with 30 knockouts \u2014 Crawford has gone on record to say <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/terence-crawford-shoots-down-jaron-ennis-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he won\u2019t be dropping back down to 154 pounds<\/a>. With those two options seemingly out of the way, a rematch against Alvarez now doesn\u2019t seem too far-fetched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the win, Crawford didn\u2019t give concrete plans regarding his next move, instead saying he will be taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-148319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}