{"id":671620,"date":"2026-05-15T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:32:08","slug":"terence-crawford-trainer-bomac-admits-one-fighter-had-his-number-we-had-to-pick-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671620\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford trainer BoMac admits one fighter ‘had his number’: “We had to pick it up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford faced a selection of top-level competitors throughout his career, but there was one man whom trainer Brian \u2018BoMac\u2019 McIntyre identified as a genuine threat to his charge\u2019s supremacy.<\/p>\n

As a three-division undisputed champion, it is fair to say that \u2018Bud\u2019 never swerved a formidable challenge, even if it meant putting himself at a considerable disadvantage.<\/p>\n

His showdown with Canelo Alvarez, for instance, saw the extraordinary technician move up two weight classes and dethrone the Mexican with a remarkable unanimous decision victory<\/a> last September.<\/p>\n

Equally, many felt Crawford was a clear underdog ahead of his 2023 clash with Errol Spence Jr<\/a>, only for him to score a ruthless ninth-round finish to unify all four major welterweight titles.<\/p>\n

According to long-time head coach \u2018BoMac\u2019, though, Crawford came closest to suffering his only professional defeat in 2019, six years before retiring from the sport.<\/p>\n

Back then, the American was defending his WBO welterweight title against Egidijus Kavaliauskas, otherwise known as \u2018Mean Machine\u2019, who was not only unbeaten but also boasted an impressive knockout-to-win ratio.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Front Page Podcast<\/a>, McIntyre credits Kavaliauskas for forcing Crawford to change his tack after round three, when \u2018Bud\u2019 climbed off the canvas following what was ruled a no-knockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat motherf**ker just kept coming and coming. He wouldn\u2019t stop. The first couple of rounds, he just had Bud\u2019s number, because he would punch before Bud and would punch after Bud.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like, \u2018Damn, dog \u2013 you [Crawford] need to pick it up\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Crawford managed to secure a ninth-round finish over Kavaliauskas, but was made to dive deep into his tool bag to emerge triumphant. The pound-for-pound star later said \u2018Mean Machine\u2019 was one of the hardest punchers he faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford faced a selection of top-level competitors throughout his career, but there was one man whom trainer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-671620","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\/671620","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=671620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}