{"id":56533,"date":"2025-08-09T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56533\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:47:08","slug":"olympic-boxer-omari-jones-predicts-terence-crawford-will-beat-canelo-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56533\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Boxer Omari Jones Predicts Terence Crawford Will Beat Canelo Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic Boxer Omari Jones
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Olympic boxer Omari Jones is taking the underdog in the Terence Crawford<\/a> vs. Canelo Alvarez<\/a> matchup … telling TMZ Sports<\/a> he’s predicting Bud will pull off the upset.<\/p>\n

Crawford (41-0) and Alvarez (63-2) will throw hands on September 13 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas … and even though Terence is moving up several weight divisions to meet Canelo at 168 pounds, Jones still likes the boxing star’s chances.<\/p>\n

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“It looks like he put it on the right way,” Jones said of Crawford’s weight gain. “The nutrition, the training — Crawford, he trains hard.”<\/p>\n

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“It’s gonna be a little bit different for Canelo this time around because Crawford took the moving up weight class seriously.”<\/p>\n

Jones also loves the fire Crawford’s shown … telling us Bud’s “competitiveness is always gonna put him over the edge.”<\/p>\n

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Jones, 22, knows a thing about battling in the ring. The Olympian — who won bronze in Paris — turned pro in March and remains undefeated after winning all three of his first fights by knockout.<\/p>\n

He’s also nice in billiards … and will attend the Florida Open Pool Championship <\/a>in his hometown of Orlando, where he’ll meet fans and hit the tables.<\/p>\n

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Jones said if he pursued a career in pool, he’d be a beast at it, especially with his boxing background.<\/p>\n

“It’s a fun game,” Jones said. “I think I’ll have fun with it. I think I’ll lock in on it like anything else.”<\/p>\n

Jones actually said he likes pool so much, he wouldn’t mind throwing a charity event — boxers vs pool players!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic Boxer Omari Jones Crawford’s Gonna Beat Canelo!!! Published August 9, 2025 12:10 AM PDT Play video content…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-56533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533","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=56533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}