{"id":294501,"date":"2025-11-20T02:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294501\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:02:06","slug":"undefeated-world-champion-says-terence-crawford-would-be-an-easy-nights-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294501\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated world champion says Terence Crawford would be an ‘easy’ night’s work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has been ruthlessly dismissed as a genuine threat, with an unbeaten world champion firmly believing that a win over the three-division undisputed king would be \u2018easy\u2019.<\/p>\n

Since dethroning Canelo Alvarez in September<\/a>, and claiming his four major belts in the process, \u2018Bud\u2019 has seemingly been sniffing around for a meaningful challenge.<\/p>\n

While not yet confirming his next opponent, the fact that he reportedly rejected an offer to face Jake Paul<\/a>, who will instead collide with Anthony Joshua<\/a> on December 19, suggests that Crawford is remaining in the sport for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n

He has, of course, already cemented his greatness, with a legacy-defining points victory over Canelo \u2013 up at 168lbs, no less \u2013 only enhancing his illustrious career.<\/p>\n

Before that, Crawford had outpointed Israil Madrimov to claim his WBA world super-welterweight title, which followed his dominant ninth-round finish over Errol Spence Jr at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

But now, while expressing little interest in remaining at super-middleweight, it would appear that the 38-year-old has set his sights on one man in the division below<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago, Crawford sent a clear message to Janibek Alimkhanuly, the unified world middleweight champion, by saying, \u201cI\u2019ve got my eyes on you, Janibek.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alimkhanuly is seemingly up for the contest, as he has already said in an interview with ESNEWS<\/a> that, in a potential fight with Crawford, he would likely encounter minimal difficulties before having his hand raised.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course \u2013 [it would be] easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before anything else, Alimkhanuly must first take care of business on December 6 when he faces Erislandy Lara, his WBA counterpart, on the undercard of Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz vs Lamont Roach Jr.<\/p>\n

But with Lara, 42, having not fought since his ninth-round stoppage victory over an undersized Danny Garcia in September 2024, the IBF and WBO champion will enter their contest as a considerable favourite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has been ruthlessly dismissed as a genuine threat, with an unbeaten world champion firmly believing that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-294501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}