Terence Crawford to make ring return June 13, according to his trainer
Terence Crawford to make ring return June 13, according to his trainer
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Terence Crawford, the reigning WBO welterweight champion, will make his return to the ring on June 13, according to his manager and trainer, Brian McIntyre.
Crawford's opponent has yet to be decided.
"We're looking to make a match with the top [147-pounders]," McIntyre said Thursday afternoon in Frisco, Texas.
"They say that they're working on [Manny] Pacquiao," McIntyre added. "Fox and ESPN said they were going to try to work together to make something. They were going to look at the guy overseas, Kell Brook."
McIntyre was in Frisco for a news conference to formally announce the April 17 bout between another one of his boxers, Maurice Hooker, and Regis Prograis.
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A Crawford matchup with Pacquiao, who currently holds the WBA welterweight title, would most likely take place in Saudi Arabia, which is looking to host another big fight card in the summer. When asked if going over there would interest them, McIntyre said: "All that money, who wouldn't want to go over there?'
The Fox/ESPN collaboration that McIntyre refers to would be for a potential showdown with Errol Spence Jr.
Spence holds the WBC and IBF belts, but his status is uncertain after a car accident in October. As of now, no fight has been scheduled for Spence, who's coming off a hard-fought victory over Shawn Porter in late September.
"He's got to get a fight underneath his belt to see how he feels, see if it's still there," said McIntyre, who believes that matchup is more realistic for 2021.
Finding marquee opponents at welterweight has been problematic for the 32-year-old Crawford, who last fought on Dec. 14, stopping Egidijus Kavaliauskas in nine rounds at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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