After final night time’s fairly pointless however IBF mandated return struggle with Karen Chukhadzhian, IBF welterweight champ Jaron “Boots” Ennis is pondering his subsequent transfer. Ennis, who received a wider choice in his first struggle with the robust and sturdy, by no means stopped Ukrainian, received by lopsided scores within the return, the scores being 119-107, 117-109, and a better 116-110.
Now 33-0(29), Boots, who scored a knockdown within the struggle that was held in his hometown of Philadelphia, this in spherical 5, mentioned afterwards that his efficiency was “okay.” And for certain, Ennis is receiving blended critiques from the followers after once more being prolonged by Chukhadzhian, a person each Boots and his promoter Eddie Hearn felt he would do a “demolition job” on this time. Boots is now considering transferring as much as the 154 pound division.
Ennis needs the elite names at 147 kilos, however he has to date had bother getting one in all them to comply with struggle him. It’s no secret Ennis needs a struggle with Terence Crawford, however to this point, no cube. Now, in talking with Chris Mannix, Boots says that until “one in all these guys (a high welterweight) stops enjoying,” he could possibly be transferring up in weight.
“My efficiency……it was okay,” Ennis mentioned of his 12 spherical win. “I don’t know, man….I believe it is perhaps time to go to 154. I really feel like at 154 I’m going to be means higher and my pop goes to be the way it’s speculated to be. If we might get one in all these guys (an elite welterweight) to cease enjoying, let’s make it occur. But when not, then 154, right here I come.”
It will be a disgrace if Ennis did transfer as much as 154 subsequent, this with out having blended it with a number of the good fighters who’re presently boxing at 147 – “Bud” being the plain struggle we’d prefer to see (both at 147 or at 154). But when not one of the high welters need to struggle Boots, then what possibility does he have however to maneuver up?
Eddie Hearn, talking after final night time’s struggle, mentioned a struggle with Vergil Ortiz, who moved as much as 154 some time in the past, can occur subsequent.
“It’s actually a case of simply making the struggle,” Hearn mentioned of Boots Vs. Ortiz. “We’re able to go for February 22.”
Followers would love this struggle, however can it actually occur so rapidly, in simply over three months? One other potential struggle for Ennis, this one at 147, is a struggle with WBA champ Eimantas Stanionis. Hearn says PBC have contacted him about this struggle.
So, Boots has some pondering to do. Would a two-belt unification struggle with Stanionis be sufficient to make Boots keep at welterweight, or may the thought of a possible traditional with Ortiz entice him to pack on an extra seven kilos?
