Commentator Chris Algieri thinks Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis may “simply” develop into the largest star in boxing, however he questions whether or not he can get the essential fights wanted to make that leap.
The Want for Monetary Backing
Ennis wants somebody with the monetary means to arrange the fights he wants. His Excellency Turki Alalshikh is the particular person Boots wants, nevertheless it’s unclear if he can be keen to help him. Turki is excessive on sure fighters, like Terence Crawford and the British heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.
Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) is 27 years outdated and never a family title. In comparison with nice fighters from the previous, like Oscar De La Hoya, Boots Ennis’ profession is nowhere close to the place the ‘Golden Boy’ was when he was 27.
By the point De Loya was 27, he’d already captured 4 division world titles. He fought these well-known fighters: Julio Cesar Chavez, Shane Mosley, Felix Trinidad, Pernell Whitaker, Ike Quartey, Oba Carr, Jesse James Leija, Miguel Gonzalez, Genaro Hernandez, and Rafael Ruelas.
Boots Ennis has been poorly promoted, and it’s questionable whether or not issues will flip round for him anytime quickly.
Ennis’ new promoter, Eddie Hearn, who was thought to have deep pockets, balked at paying $2.2 million to barter a unification combat towards WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. final week.
Hearn additionally misplaced a handbag bid for Boots to defend towards his necessary IBF opponent, Karen Chukhadzhian. Ennis’s dream of changing into undisputed champion at welterweight would seem like over. Nonetheless, if he chooses to stick with that dream, it should take a few years for that to occur if Hearn is having issues negotiating fights for him towards the opposite champions at 147.
Promotional Challenges
“Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis may simply take over the game. He’s top-of-the-line fighters on the earth as we speak, one of the vital gifted guys round,” stated commentator Chris Algieri to the Probox TV discussion board, discussing the untapped potential of IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
It doesn’t appear practical that Boots will “take over the game” as a result of he would want a promoter keen to spend money on his profession and the purses required to get the reluctant fighters to face Ennis. Hearn doesn’t appear excited by doing that, as we noticed in his failed negotiations with Norman Jr. and his lack of the purse bid for the Karen combat.
“He’s not getting the fights. Folks don’t know who he’s,” stated Algieri. “So, I believe a variety of it has to do with the game as we speak when it comes to not making the fights occur that folks have to see. It’s not as a lot that it’s simply the welterweight division as a result of there are some gifted guys and a few names.
“Sadly, we’re not getting these fights, and negotiating is changing into increasingly more troublesome to make these fights,” stated Algieri.
