An enormous-looking Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) efficiently defended his IBF welterweight title with a fifth-round stoppage win over David Avanesyan (30-4-1, 18 KOs) on Saturday evening in entrance of a giant pro-Ennis card on the Wells Fargo Heart in Philadelphia.
The ringside physician known as after the fifth spherical. The struggle stopped as a result of Avanesyan appeared in unhealthy form, with swelling round his left eye and cheek. Ennis had knocked Avanesyan down with a left hand within the fifth, and he was getting crushed up by the massive-looking Boots.
Regardless of profitable, Boots obtained hit so much within the struggle and ate some huge pictures from Avanesyan in each spherical. Within the second, Ennis landed a low blow that had Avanesyan down for at the least three minutes recovering. The low blows continued from Ennis in each spherical of the struggle, however not fairly as blatant.
From rounds three on, the struggle was fought at shut quarters, as Avanesyan crowed Boots, smothering his energy and hitting him with many quick punches.
It was clear that Avanesyan deliberate this technique as a result of it took away lots of Boots’s leverage on his pictures, and he couldn’t get the utmost energy that he usually does. Avanesyan’s shorter arms allowed him to land with good energy in near hit Boots Ennis with laborious pictures.
Ennis took the punches nicely, however the variety of instances his head was snapped again from the impression appeared unhealthy. It was lucky for Boots that the struggle ended after 5 rounds. If this match had gone into the later rounds, he might need been harm by one in every of Avanesyan’s heavy pictures.
Ennis’ protection appeared as poor because it had been in his earlier struggle in opposition to Roiman Villa, and his offense saved it. If it had been Terence Crawford that Ennis was preventing, he might need been in hassle.
Ennis appeared big tonight, gaining lots of weight after rehydrating in a single day. He wasn’t well-defined Boots Ennis followers had seen from him up to now. He was smooth-looking and carrying lots of dimension from the 12 months he’d been out of the ring.