{"id":172158,"date":"2025-10-01T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172158\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:12:09","slug":"terence-crawfords-trainer-makes-stance-clear-on-buds-retirement-after-historic-canelo-alvarez-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172158\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford&#8217;s trainer makes stance clear on &#8216;Bud&#8217;s&#8217; retirement after historic Canelo Alvarez win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Crawford&#8217;s trainer, Brian &#8216;BoMac&#8217; McIntyre, believes his student still has two or three more fights left in him.<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre guided Crawford to a career-best victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/canelo-alvarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> earlier this month for the undisputed super middleweight crown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"McIntyre believes Crawford still has plenty of gas left in the tank\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/l-r-terence-crawford-brian-1022661636.jpg\" data-caption=\"McIntyre believes Crawford still has plenty of gas left in the tank\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/l-r-terence-crawford-brian-1022661636.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre believes Crawford still has plenty of gas left in the tankCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>In victory, Crawford became the first three-weight undisputed champion of the four-belt era and joined an elite group of five-weight world champions.<\/p>\n<p>With seemingly nothing left to achieve in the sport, several members of the boxing fraternity have urged Crawford to hang up his gloves following his punch-perfect display.<\/p>\n<p>According to Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh, <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/3318801\/terence-crawford-turki-alalshikh-canelo-alvarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crawford even told him that he wanted Canelo to be his retirement fight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, &#8216;BoMac&#8217;, who has cornered Crawford since he was 14 years old, believes there is still plenty left in the tank.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he thought his fighter should retire during an interview with Fight Hub TV, \u2018BoMac\u2019 replied: \u201cYou know what? He made it look so easy, you know what I\u2019m saying? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[He\u2019s got] two, three more in him. Training camp, we\u2019ll try harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is there left for Terence Crawford to conquer in boxing?<\/p>\n<p>While it seems unlikely Crawford would defend his 168lbs belts, <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/3554412\/terence-crawford-next-fight-weight-switch-retirement-canelo-alvarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a move down to middleweight<\/a> &#8211; the division &#8216;Bud&#8217; skipped by taking on Canelo &#8211; remains a possible avenue for future fights.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Netflix broadcast panel in the immediate aftermath of his clash with Canelo, Crawford said: &#8220;My gut says the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to sit down with my team and discuss what is next in the future for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But who knows, I might go down to 160lbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crawford overcame the odds to beat Canelo in a career-best showing\" height=\"588\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/terence-crawford-throws-left-punch-1023228602.jpg\" data-caption=\"Crawford overcame the odds to beat Canelo in a career-best showing\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/terence-crawford-throws-left-punch-1023228602.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Crawford overcame the odds to beat Canelo in a career-best showingCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre refused to speculate about which weight class Crawford would compete in if he continued fighting.<\/p>\n<p>But he admitted a switch to middleweight to pick up a world title in a sixth separate division would be &#8216;great&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>At present, <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/3586872\/terence-crawford-offered-title-fight-most-avoided-champion-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janibek Alimkhanuly is the unified IBF and WBO\u00a0king<\/a>, Carlos Adames is the WBC champion, and Erislandy Lara holds the WBA&#8217;s version of the world title<\/p>\n<p>If Crawford was to successfully pick off one of the aforementioned names, then he would tie Oscar De La Hoya for the second most weight classes conquered by a male boxer.<\/p>\n<p>Only the sport&#8217;s lone eight-weight world champion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, boasts more belts.<\/p>\n<p>Although in women&#8217;s boxing, <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/jake-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> backed <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/amanda-serrano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Serrano<\/a> has seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford&#8217;s trainer, Brian &#8216;BoMac&#8217; McIntyre, believes his student still has two or three more fights left in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,77275,9554,101,9553,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-172158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-brian-mcintyre","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}