{"id":762582,"date":"2026-09-07T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762582\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:02:08","slug":"terence-crawfords-trainer-warns-world-champion-to-stop-calling-him-out-dont-wake-the-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762582\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford’s trainer warns world champion to stop calling him out: “Don’t wake the giant”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian \u2018BoMac\u2019 McIntyre has issued a firm warning, urging one of the sport\u2019s reigning world champions to avoid calling out Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the esteemed trainer, \u2018Bud\u2019 is happily retired after having cemented his greatness by becoming a three-division undisputed champion against Canelo Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the naturally smaller man, he was widely considered to be a pre-fight underdog, yet Crawford nonetheless scored a unanimous decision victory in his first outing at 168lbs.<\/p>\n

The American then announced his exit from the sport last December, only to be repeatedly called out by active fighters such as Jaron Ennis and Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u2018Boots\u2019, in fairness, has long been vocal about wanting a showdown with Crawford, essentially since he became the IBF mandatory challenger at welterweight in 2023.<\/p>\n

Since then, he has become a two-division unified champion at 154lbs, while Garcia only claimed his WBC world welterweight title by dethroning Mario Barrios<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the 28-year-old feels as though he deserves a clash with Crawford, who has denied any talk of him plotting a comeback.<\/p>\n

Even the 38-year-old\u2019s former trainer, BoMac, has told Fight Hub TV<\/a> that Bud will never return unless he feels the urge to dish out a beating against someone like Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan, stop. I don\u2019t care if Crawford got one hand \u2013 you cannot touch him, so leave him alone. Let the man be happy in retirement before you wake a giant up. [He would] whoop your ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

While having set his sights on an unlikely encounter with Crawford, Garcia must remain focused on retaining his title against Conor Benn on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian \u2018BoMac\u2019 McIntyre has issued a firm warning, urging one of the sport\u2019s reigning world champions to avoid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762582","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\/762582","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=762582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}