Terence Crawford has lots of options even if he loses on a big name fighter like Manny Pacquiao, who will reportedly choose Timothy Bradley as his next opponent in the fight scheduled for April 2016.

According to Cameron Dunkin, Crawford’s manager, the undefeated American is set to return to the ring in February next year, and they are ready to search for another opponent if Pacquiao chooses not to fight his ward.

“Terence is fine, he'll fight [and] we've got him scheduled to fight anyways, if that happens. But nothing's been said yet. So it looks like it's leaning that way, yes, but either way it doesn't matter. Terence is going to fight three times in 2016,” Dunkin said via boxingscene.com about the next fight for Crawford, who is undefeated in 27 bouts with 19 knockouts.

“[Victor] Postol is going be around. He gave me twelve names yesterday so there's plenty of guys. So we'll find out whom [he] wants to fight and what HBO wants to do and we'll go from there,” Dunkin added.

According to other reports, Pacquiao has already chosen Bradley as his next opponent in the bout tentatively scheduled on April 9, 2016 in a yet unnamed venue in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States. Fighting Bradley means a trilogy between the two welterweight rivals after both notched one victory each in their first two fights in 2012 and 2014.

Aside from Crawford and Bradley, British boxing star, Amir Khan, is also being considered as Pacquiao’s next opponent.

As for Crawford, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) super lightweight champion will most likely fight other contenders in the super lightweight division, which include Postol, Adrian Broner, Ruslan Provodnikov, Lucas Matthysse and Omar Figueroa Jr.

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