Terence Crawford's camp has put up the shutters to Australian media, refusing all interview requests from travelling reporters ahead of his clash with Jeff Horn.
Crawford arrived in Las Vegas on Monday morning (AEST) and checked into his room at the MGM Grand, the same hotel where Horn is staying and where their fight will be staged.
But his outspoken trainer Brian McIntyre gave short shrift to waiting television reporters in the lobby and said Crawford would not be speaking to anyone from the Australian press contingent.
"No Aussies are interviewing him because you will just twist our words," McIntyre said.
Nicknamed 'Bomac', McIntyre has been Crawford's verbal attack dog for the entire lead-up to the bout and has repeatedly goaded Horn and his trainer, Glenn Rushton.
He has been less than impressed with some of the commentary emanating from Australia - particularly accusations from Horn's promoter Dean Lonergan that the hand injury suffered by Crawford that saw the fight postponed until June was not legitimate.
The media ban appears to be a direct response to that sort of coverage, rather than any sign that the American's camp is feeling the heat as fight night draws closer.
McIntyre is convinced Horn doesn't stand a chance against Crawford and almost every boxing pundit and bookmaker in the country agrees with him.
The Horn and Crawford camps will come face-to-face for the first time on Friday morning (AEST) at the official press conference.
McIntyre - a former professional boxer who was knocked out seven times in 21 fights - should have plenty to say.
He has already threatened Rushton with physical violence and in a recent foul-mouthed video interview released to media last month, he declared Horn was "scared s**tless" of Crawford.
"Terence Crawford, to you Australian fans, is going to whoop Jeff Horn's butt," McIntyre said in the video.
"We're sorry - we'll bring the belt back over so you guys can look at it and polish it up a little bit, maybe we'll come over there and shake some hands or something like that."
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