Terence Crawford Faces Ultimate Challenge: UFC Fighter Dares Him to Spar — Picks Date and Location to Settle Their Explosive Feud!
Terence Crawford thought his fighting days were behind him after retiring in 2025.
Terence Crawford : The 42-0 boxing superstar retired on top after beating Canelo Alvarez to become the undisputed super middleweight champion in September.
Now, ‘Bud’ has found himself locked in an unlikely feud with UFC welterweight Joaquin Buckley.
It all started when ‘New Mansa’ took exception to Terence Crawford and Shakur Stevenson talking down about MMA during a recent livestream with Adin Ross.
Now, the 170lb UFC contender has challenged Crawford to spar him at the UFC APEX next month.
“Bud is talking crazy, acting like he would do something in the streets, saying he is going to flip the switch, he is going to need the switch if he is playing with me,” Buckley said during a nine-minute video he shared on Instagram.
We aren’t going to do this in the streets. That was some good deflection. He didn’t want to answer what I asked him, and that is to get that work. We can keep it out of the streets, we ain’t going to be playing like that.
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“Let’s get in the ring, let’s spar. You are out in Vegas a lot, you spar at the Apex, you work at the Apex. I think it would be fun. The whole world would like to watch. I know you still train for the lifestyle, I know you still spar.
“I see Shakur thinks something is funny, but at the end of the day, let’s find out because I am dead serious about that… Somebody said you want a payday, this ain’t got nothing to do with a payday, I’m willing to do this for free.
“This is an open invitation to Bud Crawford. Let’s do it at the Apex. I’m going to try to make my way down to Vegas on March 7.”
Joaquin Buckley hasn’t fought since getting outpointed by Kamaru Usman at UFC Atlanta last June.
The defeat snapped a six-fight winning streak that had Buckley on the verge of a welterweight title shot.
Now, the 31-year-old is impatiently waiting to find out who and when he’ll fight next for the UFC.
Former 170lb champion Jack Della Maddalena is who Buckley hopes to be matched up against next.
It seems unlikely that the UFC will book their number one contender against a man propping up the top 10.
Buckley may be more realistic with his next call out after recently challenging ‘JDM’ and Terence Crawford.
