Terence Crawford’s trainer Brian “BoMac” McIntyre delivers warning to the super-welterweight division

TERENCE CRAWFORD’S trainer Brian “BoMac” McIntyre had a message for the super-welterweight division when he spoke to Boxing News in New York yesterday (April 24).

The 154lb class now has the former undisputed super-lightweight and welterweight champion in its ranks. And Crawford’s debut in the division comes on August 3 in opposition to WBA titlist Israil Madrimov, 10-0-1 (7). Their headline struggle at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles brings a Riyadh Season occasion to America for the first time.

Crawford, 40-0 (31), and McIntyre are gunning for undisputed glory at a 3rd weight and the latter had this to say to each champion and contender at 154lbs.

“All the ’54 pounders we putting y’all on notice. I’m telling you right now. Coming to collect all those belts so either get you a fight and say you busy or vacated cuz we coming.”

Sebastian Fundora staked his declare as the greatest in the division when he beat the fearsome Aussie Tim Tszyu on March 30 in Las Vegas. Fundora’s split-decision win got here not with no worth, nevertheless, with each males coated in blood after numerous cuts suffered throughout their gruelling bout.

Tszyu joins Madrimov and Crawford on the August 3 card with one other thriller-in-waiting in opposition to the unbeaten and hard-hitting Vergil Ortiz Jr who first faces veteran Thomas Dulorme on Saturday (April 27) in Fresno.

The IBF belt is now in the fingers of Bakhram Murtazaliev after he knocked out Jack Culcay on April 6 in Germany and whereas he’s seen as the weakest of the champions there’s a robust argument to be made for Madrimov as the better of the present titleholders.

“He brings a lot to the table as far as power and speed,” McIntyre stated.

“I know he only got 11 fights, but he got a shitload of amateur fights. He’s dangerous. They call him the Triple G of ’54 so we got a lot stacked against us.”