{"id":298357,"date":"2025-11-21T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298357\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:14:07","slug":"tim-bradley-warns-terence-crawford-that-the-champion-he-is-targeting-is-not-to-be-messed-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298357\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley warns Terence Crawford that the champion he is targeting is ‘not to be messed with’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pound-for-pound superstar Terence Crawford<\/a> may look to add even more to his legacy before he hangs up the gloves, but Tim Bradley has warned \u2018Bud\u2019 not to overlook one of his potential opponents.<\/p>\n

Crawford moved up to super-middleweight and dethroned Canelo Alvarez in one of the greatest performances since the turn of the millennium, becoming boxing\u2019s first three-division undisputed champion of the four-belt era in the process.<\/p>\n

Now, recent rumours suggest that the Omaha-born operator will drop down to middleweight for a fight against Janibek Alimkhanuly<\/a> to attempt to become the third six-division world champion in boxing history. He has admitted he \u2018has eyes\u2019 on the Kazakh star.<\/p>\n

Although, on his YouTube channel<\/a>, two-division world champion Bradley advised \u2018Bud\u2019 to take unified WBO & IBF middleweight world champion Janibek very seriously, despite the his lack of fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cJanibek ain\u2019t no joke. Oh, no. That is a tough fight for Terence Crawford. I love me some Crawford, man, y\u2019all know what time it is, but I gotta call a spade a damn spade. Janibek ain\u2019t nothing to mess with. He cold. Southpaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou ain\u2019t know much about him? That\u2019s fine, you ain\u2019t gotta know much about him. I\u2019m here to tell you \u2013 speed, power, size, defence, offence, footwork, angle. Dude is cold, man.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a damn killer. If Crawford goes down and faces that dude, his legacy [could be damaged]. It may not be a marquee name, everybody going to be tuning in to see the greatness of Terence Crawford and I\u2019m here to tell you, Janibek ain\u2019t here to be messed with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alimkhanuly meets WBA titleholder Erislandy Lara in a three-belt unification clash in two weeks\u2019 time<\/a>, with Crawford potentially aiming to take on the victor of that contest. He has, however, also been linked with a rematch against Canelo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pound-for-pound superstar Terence Crawford may look to add even more to his legacy before he hangs up the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-298357","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\/298357","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=298357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}