By Robbie Bannatyne – 10/29/2024 – Feedback
The champions at 147 need huge dough to Face IBF welterweight champ Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis for Unification fights. Ennis is simply too harmful, and the opposite champions don’t need to take lower than huge cash for a combat that they don’t assume they will win.
Boot’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, hasn’t proven the willingness to pay the champions the cash they need. It prices cash to set these fights up, and Boots (32-0, 29 KOs) has but to change into a PPV attraction. To lure these champions into taking a combat that they know they will’t win, Hearn might want to overpay, and he’s not proven the willingness to do this.
Until Hearn is keen to begin investing cash in Ennis to make these fights occur to rework him right into a star, he wants to surrender on his dream of turning into an undisputed champion.
“Once you get to the extent the place Jaron Ennis is at, the place he’s a world champion and a harmful man, opponents on the market are going to ask for a bag,” stated Chris Mannix to DAZN Boxing on X in regards to the issues confronting IBF 147-lb champ Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis about his issues getting unification fights towards the opposite welterweight champions.
“That’s what occurred with the Brian Norman state of affairs. They needed a pile of cash in the event that they have been going to get within the ring with Boots. The identical with Eimantas Stanionis. The identical factor with Mario Barrios. These guys know Eddie Hearn must make huge fights for his star fighter, and so they’re going to demand the type of money accordingly.”
It’s not simply that the champions know that Hearn is needy. They clearly really feel that they will’t win this combat, and so they’re not simply pointing to gifting away their world titles for $1 million. You’ll be able to’t blame champions like WBO belt-holder Brian Norman Jr. for wanting $2.2 million to face a expertise like Ennis in his hometown of Philadelphia.
It’s not that the champions are asking for a King’s ransom for a combat towards Ennis. It’s extra of a case of them feeling that it’s higher for them to carry onto their titles and wait till His Excellency Turki Alalshikh appears of their path to supply them large money to combat on one among his Riyadh Season playing cards.
Ennis is making a low-level protection towards his IBF necessary Karen Chukhadzhian subsequent month in a rematch on November ninth on the Wells Fargo Heart in Philadelphia. Hearn failed to barter a unification combat between Ennis and Norman, which is why Boots is caught with the protection towards Karen.
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