{"id":592256,"date":"2026-05-19T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592256\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:21:09","slug":"team-terence-crawford-and-team-canelo-clash-again-this-weekend-in-heavyweight-final-eliminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592256\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Terence Crawford and Team Canelo clash again this weekend in heavyweight final eliminator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teams behind Terence Crawford and Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez\u2019s blockbuster clash last year will go head-to-head again this weekend in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Brian \u2018BoMac\u2019 McIntyre trained Crawford from debut until retirement, and the same will be said about Eddy Reynoso and Canelo when the Mexican decides to hang up his gloves. The two camps went head-to-head in the most significant bout of 2025, with the Americans coming out on top to crown Crawford undisputed super-middleweight champion and hand Alvarez just his third defeat in 68 fights.<\/p>\n

This coming weekend at the Pyramids of Giza, \u2018BoMac\u2019 and Reynoso will be sitting in opposite corners once again, as heavyweights Richard Torrez Jr and Frank Sanchez battle it out in an IBF final eliminator for a shot at champion Oleksandr Usyk, who fights kickboxer Rico Verhoeven in the main event.<\/a><\/p>\n

Unlike Sanchez, who has been with Reynoso for some years, other than a stint away in 2022, Torrez has only just linked up with McIntyre at the B&B Sports Academy in Omaha.<\/p>\n

The well-respected trainer, who also has Lester Martinez in his stable and previously coached Keyshawn Davis, told Top Rank<\/a> that he has been impressed so far and expects his new heavyweight charge to shine this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrank Sanchez is a great fighter. He has a great team behind him, a great coach. I know for a fact that over there with Eddye Reynoso those guys stay ready. I wouldn\u2019t accept nothing less, and the [inactivity] doesn\u2019t matter to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough fight for the first couple of rounds, cause the guys are gonna feel each other out, taste each other\u2019s power, but the will and determination is gonna come down. And I know one thing \u2013 Frank got a loss. He got stopped. So he knows how to lose. Richard\u2019s undefeated, silver medallist. Kid ain\u2019t lost in umpteen years. I\u2019m just looking for him to go out there and do his thing and definitely get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his amateur success for the US, Torrez has built a professional record of 14-0 at 26 years old, scoring 12 knockouts and boasting his biggest win over Guido Vianello. Cuba\u2019s Sanchez, 25-1 (18 KOs), lost to Agit Kabayel in 2024 to set his world title dreams back a little, but is right on the verge again now.<\/p>\n

Given Usyk-Verhoeven is more spectacle than high-level boxing, their clash may prove the most intriguing heavyweight contest on the card, which also includes Jack vs Shakhram Giyasov for the WBA Regular welterweight belt and Hamzeh Sheeraz against Alem Begic for the vacant WBO super-middleweight title, previously held by Canelo and Crawford.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams behind Terence Crawford and Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez\u2019s blockbuster clash last year will go head-to-head again this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592256","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=592256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}