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Eddie Hearn says that the fight between Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Eimantas Stanionis on April 12 is number 1 and 2 in the Welter weight division to demonstrate who is the best champion. The 147 pound champion of the FIB, Ennis (33-0, 29) and the owner of the AMB belt, Stanionis (15-0, 9 kos), head the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event will be broadcast live on Dazn.
Hearn took a palmadita on the back to give Ennis, 27, the first of the three unification fights he needed to become an unquestionable Welter weight champion.
Eddie had recently failed to negotiate a fight for ‘Boots’ last November with the Wave champion Brian Norman Jr, which turned out that Ennis was caught defending against his mandatory of the Fib Karen Chukhadzhian in a rematch that fans do not They were interested in seeing.
Ennis wore horrible in that fight, being surpassed in boxing and even hit by Karen for many rounds. To say that Chukhadzhian made ‘boots’ seem terrible, that is, lightly. Jaron won the fight by unanimous decision in 12 assaults, but its value in the boxing world collapsed because it looked terrible.
Ennis worsened things recently by rejecting a payment day, the highest of his career, to fight against the interim junior medium weight champion of the WBC, Vergil Ortiz Jr., in the huge billboard of Turki al-Sheikh on February 22 In Riad. Fans saw that as an absolute and fashionable cowardice by Ennis. Then, that Jono fought now against Stanionis in a unification on April 12, he has done nothing to resurrect his lost popularity.
The fight that American boxing fans wanted to see was Boots Ennis against Vergil Ortiz Jr, not a fight against Stanionis, who is not well known as well as well considered by Americans. The other two world champions in 147, Brian Norman and Mario Barrios, are not very respected by fans either.
The wrong opponent
Boots will not receive much credit to defeat any of those guys, and it will be An empty achievement If you finally achieve your goal of becoming indisputable in 147. No one will care because fans value more than Ennis ascend to fight against Vergil, Bakhram Muratazaliev, Israil Madrimov and Serhii Bohachuk in 154.
“This is enough. Brian Norman, neighborhoods, two good fighters. Stanionis is indicated. Stanionis is the toughest fight for boots and you will see the best against the best. He claims the crown, and that’s what Eddie Hearn said Boxing in the party roomSaying who believes is the best of the three 147 pounds that should overcome Jaron Ennis.
“It is one of the most pleasant and rewarding ads that we have made because Boots had a dream (unify the 147 pound division) that we were responsible for managing, and it was that he unified the division to become the best prominent of the division. -They of the world, ”Hearn continued.
“I have to respect Stanionis because nobody wanted to fight with boots, and maybe the last performance (Karen Chukhadzhian’s rematch simply) just thought and this is a brilliant fight. This is the world number 1 and 2 weight fighting the FIB belt, AMB and Ring magazine to tell us unequivocally who is the best weight of 147 pounds in the world.
Dodging Ortiz?
This is not a gratifying announcement because it has done nothing for fans to forget that Boots rejected a risky fight against Vergil Ortiz Jr. on February 22. Fans believe that Ennis dodged Ortiz, fearing to lose against him and see his popularly eroded popularity even more.
Boots already wore badly in most of his recent fights against Karen Chukhadzhian X 2, David Avsanesyan and Roiman Villa. The last time Jaron looked impressive was three years ago when he knocked out Custio Clayton, 34, in the second assault on May 14, 2022.
“’Boots’ had many criticism because he maintained his dream, and when the fight of (vergil) Ortiz came, when Teófimo’s fight came, he told me,’ Eddie, I want to unify the division. I want to win all belts. Please, make it come true ‘and we made it come true. We fulfilled and we are at the Boardwalk Hall, a stadium full of history, ”said Hearn.
“It will be a great show, and for all the people who doubted him. All the people who shot him (Anis), this is the real fight. April 12 in Atlantic City, ‘Boots’ against Stanionis for the supremacy of the Welter weight and for the Ring Magazine belt. The last two owners of the Ring Magazine belt were Terence Crawford and Floyd Mayweather, going back decades.
“Beyond that, (Sugar Ray) Leonard, Hagler, Sugar Ray Robinson. This is the quality that we are going to see in this fight, and this is the statement that ‘boots’ will do to demonstrate that it is a great pound for pound, ”said Hearn.
