{"id":864425,"date":"2026-08-20T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:48:08","slug":"canelo-warned-that-terence-crawfords-training-partner-is-coming-to-clean-him-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864425\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo warned that Terence Crawford&#8217;s training partner is coming to &#8216;clean him up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rising member of Team Crawford is expected to be \u201csitting ringside, licking his chops\u201d, when Canelo Alvarez squares off with WBC champion Christian Mbilli.<\/p>\n<p>The two super-middleweights will collide on October 31 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with Mbilli making a first defence of his world title.<\/p>\n<p>It was several months removed from his <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/christian-mbilli-retains-wbc-interim-title-with-draw-against-lester-martinez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">thrilling draw with Lester Martinez<\/a> that the Frenchman was upgraded from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBC champion, shortly after Terence Crawford announced his retirement in December.<\/p>\n<p>On the same night that Mbilli retained his belt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46224012\/canelo-alvarez-terence-crawford-live-updates-boxing-results-round-round-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crawford had dethroned Canelo with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> and became a three-division undisputed champion.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez and Mbilli have therefore not stepped through the ropes since last September and, at 36 years old, the clock is certainly ticking on Canelo\u2019s decorated career.<\/p>\n<p>With a keen eye on facing the winner of their showdown, the Brian \u2018BoMac\u2019 McIntryre-trained Martinez is set to be in attendance alongside stablemate Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Even now, Crawford continues to share rounds of sparring with the unbeaten Guatemalan, who BoMac believes will secure his WBC title shot soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/terence-crawford-only-coming-back-to-help-lester-martinez-bomac-confirms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BoxingScene<\/a>, the American coach outlined his plan beyond Martinez\u2019 clash with Luka Plantic on August 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s take care of business next weekend and then [Canelo or Mbilli], in order to be called the best, [will have] to beat this kid right here, sitting ringside, licking his chops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Martinez will be thinking], \u2018If I didn\u2019t damn well beat you, [Mbilli], well, the world would say I beat you. My partner [Crawford] beat you, [Alvarez]. Now I\u2019m gonna come clean both of you motherf**kers up. I\u2019m gonna finish what Bud [Crawford] started\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before anything else, Martinez must first defend his WBC \u2018interim\u2019 title against the unbeaten Plantic at Los Angeles\u2019 USC Galen Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rising member of Team Crawford is expected to be \u201csitting ringside, licking his chops\u201d, when Canelo Alvarez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-864425","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\/864425","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=864425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}