BoMac Tells Jaron Ennis to Leave Terence Crawford in Retirement

Jaron Ennis says Terence Crawford would be "easy work" if he ever unretired. Crawford's longtime trainer, Brian "BoMac" McIntyre, isn't buying a word of it — and his message to Ennis was blunt: leave the man in retirement and try to build a resume that touches his. Crawford, remember, walked away from boxing unbeaten across 42 different opponents, a three-weight undisputed champion who nobody solved.

Ennis floated the "easy work" line on the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast, positioning himself as the fighter fans think could've cracked the Omaha southpaw. At 36-0 with 32 knockouts, the Philadelphian has the numbers to talk. But McIntyre, speaking on The Last Stand Podcast, flatly rejected the idea, insisting Ennis "can't touch Bud" and that his best move is to outperform Crawford's legacy rather than chase him into the ring.

The Missed Window

This is the fight that never happened, and both camps know it. Ennis was chasing a Crawford showdown while 'Bud' still had gloves on, becoming a unified welterweight champion around the time Crawford vacated the division. Instead of circling back, Crawford went up and closed out his career in style — beating Israil Madrimov before handing Canelo Alvarez a unanimous-decision loss that dropped the Mexican to 63-2-2.

McIntyre leaned on the record as his whole argument, pointing to what Crawford accomplished across three divisions and daring anyone to find a flaw in it. He was careful to keep it respectful — he said he rates Ennis as a fighter and a person, and has no issue with his team. He just doesn't think the styles or the resume come close to matching up, and he framed the callout as exactly what a top-of-the-food-chain fighter is supposed to say.

Where Ennis Goes Next

For all the retirement talk, Ennis has a real job in front of him. He's already the WBA and WBO super-welterweight champion after halting Xander Zayas in seven, and he's set on unifying the 154lb division. That road runs through IBF titlist Josh Kelly, an 18-1-1 (9 KO) operator who most recently outpointed Bakhram Murtazaliev by majority decision.

That fight is penciled in for December or early 2027, and it's the one that actually matters for Ennis right now. Beat Kelly and he starts stacking the kind of undisputed hardware that could, eventually, put his name in the same sentence as Crawford's on merit. BoMac's point stands until then: talk is cheap, and Crawford's ledger isn't.