{"id":471849,"date":"2026-02-13T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471849\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:43:14","slug":"joaquin-buckley-lays-down-official-sparring-challenge-to-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471849\/","title":{"rendered":"Joaquin Buckley lays down official sparring challenge to Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a recent back and forth, Joaquin Buckle has laid out an official challenge to boxing legend Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that Joaquin Buckley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/joaquin-buckley\/joaquin-buckley-slams-top-ufc-welterweights-wasting-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isn\u2019t a guy who bites his tongue<\/a>. If he has an opinion, he\u2019s going to let the world know about it \u2013 and that, alongside his actual abilities in the cage, is why he\u2019s considered to be one of the most intriguing welterweights in the UFC today.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/terence-crawford\/terence-crawford-joaquin-buckley-trade-barbs-shakur-stevenson-boxing-mma-take\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford, UFC\u2019s Joaquin Buckley trade barbs over Shakur Stevenson\u2019s controversial Boxing vs. MMA take<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, Buckley has been getting into a bit of back and forth with some of the biggest stars from the sport of professional boxing. Joaquin suggested that boxers don\u2019t show UFC fighters enough respect, and said that he\u2019d be able to \u2018kill\u2019 the likes of Terence Crawford and Shakur Stevenson if they fought on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>After Crawford laughed him off and hit back, Buckley decided to put forward an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DUpCY3NDt72\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">actual challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buckley lays down challenge to Crawford<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBud is talking crazy, acting like he would do something in the streets, saying he is going to flip the switch, he is going to need the switch if he is playing with me,\u201d Buckley said during a nine-minute video he shared on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t going to do this in the streets. That was some good deflection. He didn\u2019t want to answer what I asked him, and that is to get that work. We can keep it out of the streets, we ain\u2019t going to be playing like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s get in the ring, let\u2019s spar. You are out in Vegas a lot, you spar at the Apex, you work at the Apex. I think it would be fun. The whole world would like to watch. I know you still train for the lifestyle, I know you still spar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see Shakur thinks something is funny, but at the end of the day, let\u2019s find out because I am dead serious about that\u2026 Somebody said you want a payday, this ain\u2019t got nothing to do with a payday, I\u2019m willing to do this for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an open invitation to Bud Crawford. Let\u2019s do it at the Apex. I\u2019m going to try to make my way down to Vegas on March 7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/02\/12\/terence-crawford-challenged-to-spar-ufc-fighter-who-proposes-date-and-location-to-settle-bitter-feud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could it happen? Let us know your thoughts on this feud in the comments below, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a recent back and forth, Joaquin Buckle has laid out an official challenge to boxing legend Terence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-471849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471849","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=471849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}