Terence Crawford says there’s a risk that he may struggle Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis sooner or later when he strikes as much as 154. Crawford, who holds the WBA junior middleweight title, factors out that ‘Boots’ “turned down” a struggle with Vergil Ortiz Jr. to maneuver as much as 154.
Bud’s Situation
Crawford’s remark about Ennis (33-0, 29 KOs) selecting NOT to face Vergil Jr. for his WBC interim 154-lb title on the Riyadh Season card on February twenty second means that he has doubts about whether or not he’ll ever face him.
It’s not a superb signal that Boots didn’t settle for His Excellency Turki Alalshikh’s supply to struggle on his card in opposition to Ortiz Jr. Taking that struggle would have given Ennis’ profession an enormous enhance, but he refused. That signifies that he lacks self-confidence, which is comprehensible after his poor displaying in his rematch in opposition to Karen Chukhadzhian on November ninth.
For there any risk of a struggle between the 2, Ennis would should be extra of a risk-taker by shifting up in weight to take the harder fights in opposition to guys like Ortiz Jr. and the opposite belt-holders. It seems that ‘Boots’ is content material with staying protected at 147, beating the much less gifted opposition, and being an enormous fish in a small pond. He’s making good cash for the low-risk fights his promoter, Eddie Hearn, is setting him up with at welterweight. All that adjustments doubtlessly if Ennis strikes as much as 154; therefore, he’s chosen to remain ‘protected’ at 147, utilizing the division as a foxhole to cover in.
It’s comprehensible why the Matchroom-promoted Ennis wouldn’t need to go as much as 154 to struggle killers like Vergil Ortiz Jr. due to the straightforward cash he’s making now at welterweight, feasting the Hors D’oeuvres, like Karen Chukhadzhian and David Avanesyan, is preferable than leaping into the tough ocean waters at 154 to tackle the gifted fighters that may beat him repeatedly.
“He Turned Down a Combat”
“I feel Boots and Stanionis are the 2 high guys within the division. We’re in two completely different weight courses,” stated Terence Crawford to Boxing Social, when requested about whether or not he may struggle Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
“As you see, he simply turned down a struggle with Vergil [Ortiz Jr.] to maneuver as much as 154 as a result of he’s staying at 147. I feel Boots goes to do great issues within the sport of boxing. I feel he’s doubtlessly going to wash out the 147-lb division, and when he strikes up, who is aware of? We will see.
“I don’t know what the negotiations. I don’t need to say anyone is ducking anyone once I don’t know the scenario at hand. However from the seems to be at him, all people is coming at him, saying, ‘He ducked.’ I don’t know,” stated Crawford when requested if he believed ‘Boots’ Ennis ducked WBC interim junior middleweight champion Vergil Ortiz Jr. when requested if he want to struggle him on the February twenty second card in Riyadh.
