Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis was in no temper to present challenger Karen Chukhadzhian credit score for his excellent efficiency of their rematch on Saturday evening on the Wells Fargo Middle in Philadelphia. Boots (33-0, 29 KOs) held onto his IBF welterweight title, profitable a 12-round unanimous determination, however Chukhadzhian (24-3, 13 KOs) deserved credit score as an alternative of being referred to as a “bottom-tier” fighter by him within the post-fight interview.
The scores:
– 119-107
– 117-109
– 116-110
Ennis and Bozy Panicked
Chukhadzhian’s highly effective pictures and his abilities had Ennis and his coach/father, Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis, panicking by the seventh spherical. Bozy stored barking the identical instruction, telling him to get the knockout. He made it sound like Boots may simply casually exit and rating a knockout at any time when the fact was he was drowning. There have been no actual directions from Bozy. He was simply telling Ennis to go for the knockout and seemed like a multitude.
Boots appeared embarrassed throughout and after the struggle, because the followers weren’t cheering him, and there have been scattered boos for a way dangerous he’d carried out. Quite than taking the excessive street and giving Chukhadzhian credit score for outboxing him by way of many of the struggle, Ennis mentioned he’d not carried out nicely as a result of he wasn’t motivated.
Ennis scored a fifth-round knockdown when he landed a collection of exhausting pictures after catching Chukhadzhian with a strong left. He didn’t seem harm however went down as a result of Ennis was crowding him and throwing nonstop punches. Chukhadzhian couldn’t escape the stress. Within the tenth, the referee took a degree away from Chukhadzhian for holding.
The referee ought to have penalized Boots for the low blows he was hitting Karen with all in the course of the struggle, as a result of these had been far worse than the holding that was happening.
Boots Struggles in opposition to “Backside-Tier Fighter”
Chris Mannix: “Your offense continues to be among the many finest within the welterweight division, if not the most effective, however for the second straight struggle, we noticed you get hit extra typically than what we’ve seen previously. What do it’s worthwhile to do defensively to get higher for these large fights,” mentioned Chris Mannix of DAZN to Jaron Ennis after his win over Karen Chukhadzhian.
Jaron Ennis: “Simply struggle the larger names. Typically if you struggle bottom-tier guys, you don’t rise up for them,” mentioned Ennis. “I do know if I struggle a means higher man. I’m going to be loopy. I’m going to be on level. That’s what’s going to make me higher. I want these high guys.”
Mannix: “I used to be going to ask you about unifying these titles, however it seems like your able to get out of 147.”
Ennis: “If we will get one in all these guys, let’s make it occur. If not, 154, right here I come.”
Eddie Hearn: “I assumed it was an excellent efficiency from Chukhadzhian. They mentioned they had been going to present us a efficiency this time, and so they did it. Boots isn’t at all times switched on like he can be in opposition to a fighter that he had a worry issue in opposition to. I seen this week, that he was a lot tighter [translation: struggling to make weight] than regular at 147.”
