Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis defends his IBF welterweights title towards his obligatory Karen Chukhadzhian in a rematch this Saturday, November ninth. Within the different huge struggle on the cardboard, WBC tremendous flyweight champion Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez fights Pedro Guevara. The occasion shall be proven reside on DAZN beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Neither of those fights is enticing to the followers, who see them as mismatches. In Boots’ case, he has no selection as a result of Chukhadzhian is his IBF obligatory struggle. Together with Bam Rodriguez on this card was a good suggestion, however it won’t be sufficient for it to tug in huge rankings on DAZN.
What was actually wanted was Terence Crawford as Boots Ennis’ opponent as a result of many followers are fascinated with seeing that struggle.
Undercard
– Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez vs. Pedro Guevara
– Raymond Ford vs. Orlando Gonzalez
– Khalil Coe vs. Manuel Gallegos
– Ernesto Mercado vs. Jesus Saracho
– Austin Williams vs. Gian Garrido
Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) will struggle in entrance of his hometown followers on the Wells Fargo Heart in Philadelphia. Being at residence places a whole lot of stress on the 27-year-old Boots Ennis’ shoulders as a result of he’s acquired to look good towards a fighter he struggled towards final yr on January seventh. Ennis received by the scores 120-108, 120-108, and 120-108.
Chukhadzhian (24-2, 13 KOs) misplaced each spherical to Ennis in a 12-round unanimous determination defeat, however he made him look unhealthy through the use of motion and annoying photographs thrown with little energy.
“I’ve been watching Jaron Ennis for 5 years. This child is unbeatable for my part,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to Matchroom Boxing. “Velocity, energy, motion, protection, temperament, work ethic, and he’ll rule the division at 147 and plenty of divisions past.”
What makes it harder for Ennis is that that is his second struggle with Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn, and he didn’t look good in his debut with the corporate earlier this yr towards David Avanesyan on July thirteenth.
Hearn’s expectations for Boots Ennis don’t appear to jibe with actuality. He speaks about Ennis as if he’s infallible, however his performances towards Roiman Villa, David Avanesyan, and Chukhadzhian confirmed that he’s beatable. That could be one of many the reason why Ennis has chosen to stall his profession out at 147 together with his unattainable aim of turning into an undisputed champion.
It will be doable if Hearn had been prepared to speculate the cash in Boots’ profession to get the opposite champions to comply with struggle him. He’s not accomplished that. We might even see Ennis stultified at 147 and unable to maneuver ahead as a result of his promoter will not be arising with the dough to get the champions to struggle him.
“The plan is to gather these belts and be undisputed at 147 and do the identical factor at 154,” mentioned Ennis.”The champions don’t wish to struggle me. It’s out of my palms. I did my greatest. I really feel like they’re missing confidence. They don’t imagine in themselves. They know what’s in entrance of them. A special kind of mindset, a special kind of beast.”
When Ennis talks, he sounds naive and doesn’t perceive his bleak state of affairs. After all, what we don’t know is whether or not Ennis is deliberately utilizing his aim of accumulating the belts as an excuse to remain within the useless 147-lb division and keep away from the killer sharks at 154 that will devour him entire. They’d doubtlessly finish Ennis’ profession as a top-level fighter by beating him if he moved as much as 154.
So, as a substitute of going up, Ennis repeatedly says that he’s staying at 147 to perform his aim of turning into an undisputed champion. He feels like a damaged file when he talks about this topic, however this can be only a foxhole for Ennis to cover in to maintain from getting crushed.
“Everyone retains asking me about Bud. That’s the one struggle that everybody desires to see,” mentioned Ennis about Crawford. “I’m attempting, I attempted. I needed it to occur. It’s at all times going to be ‘Sure’ on my finish. It’s as much as them if it’s going to be ‘Sure’ on their finish.”
Boots can’t be critical about eager to struggle Crawford as a result of if he had been, he’d have already moved as much as 154 to extend his possibilities of that struggle occurring.
“Clearly, they don’t need the struggle. I’m centered on what I’ve acquired happening proper now. After I fought Chukhadzhian, my entire mindset was, ‘knockout.’ You possibly can’t go into no struggle like that. When you have got your enjoyable, the stoppage goes to come back,” mentioned Ennis, giving his philosophy, which he’s mentioned in quite a few interviews.
Former WBA featherweight champion Raymond Ford (15-1-1, 8 KOs) shall be preventing for the primary time since dropping his title to Nick Ball by a 12-round break up determination earlier this yr on June 1st in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We’ll see if the loss to Ball has affected Ford.
Orlando Gonzalez (23-2, 13 KOs) shall be trying to ship Ford all the way down to his second consecutive defeat on Saturday. This isn’t the perfect opponent for Ford to come back again towards.
