Eddie Hearn, promoter Jaron “Boots” Ennis “, revealed today that he is negotiating the fight between Ennis and Teofimo Lopez about the start in August in Saudi Arabia. Hearn says he is a little earlier than the IBF and WBO ennis (34-0, 30 KO), which plan to return to the ring. The 27 -year -old Ennis expected the next fight in September or October.
“We are in negotiations for Jaron to fight Teofimo and you heard his Excellency [Turki Alalshikh]. He said it there – said the promoter Eddie Hearn Warrior About conversations starting between Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Teofimo Lopez for a fight. “This is the last 48 hours. So Jaron was resting.”
Mismatched task?
If Ennis takes this fight, he will delay him in the pursuit of capturing all belts at the age of 147. However, with Hearn will probably have problems negotiating the contract with the WBO master Brian Norman Jr. Without investing in Ennis, “it doesn’t matter that this detour will extend the time required at the end of the titles.
“In August there is a date we could look at in Saudi Arabia, but we didn’t really expect a fight in August,” said Hearn. “We expected a fight in September or October. We have a compulsory pretender in Shakhram Giyasov, who moved to the side of Stanionis. But I think there is a conversation that can be conducted there [for another step aside]. “
It seems that the obligatory WBO Boots Giyasov will run away again, and for the second time he was open. I just wonder if Ennis will continue to twist this threatening warrior until he achieves the goal of being the undisputed champion at the age of 147. It would be pathetic if Jaron covers his mandatory obligations until he fulfills his dreams of gathering all four lanes.
This is chasing this achievement when the warrior cannot be unquestioned, avoiding facing his hard compulsory pretenders. How do you give them a loan, knowing that they have avoided it many times? Apart from Boots Ennis’, there is a star in record books to capture the undisputed title at 147? Does Ennis need so bad that it is unquestioned?
If one or two months earlier it is too early for Ennis to return to the ring, he says little about its strength. If he wants to be compared with the large ones, he must be ready to fight earlier than expected when immense fights are offered.
A huge advantage of the shoe
“I have a phone call with Jaron and no one in an hour to see if this is what we want to do. I will say that there is a conversation at 47/54. [ to junior middleweight]But I think the Teofimo fight is a great fight. It seems to me that this is a great option for him. I honestly think he is [Boots Ennis] Too large and too good. I evaluate Teofimo, ‘said Hearn.
This is a good payment day for Ennis fighting Lopez, and he would have a huge advantage over him. The fight would basically come down to the younger medium scale fighting with lithe welterweight. Shoes should now fight for 154, instead of flowing to compete with a smaller victim in idle, devoid of talent of the 147-pound division.
Teofimo is petite even for the division of 140 pounds and probably distributes over 20 pounds against Ennis on the night of fighting. It’s great for Ennis, but it’s not ideal for fans who buy the event, thinking that they will see a competitive fight. We are talking about a warrior in Lopez, who lost to George Cambosos, who should overcome his record with the fight with Sandor Martin and Jamaine Ortiz.
“When we did here, Teofimo entered the scales, about six or eight hours in hydration, and he was about 146 pounds. Barboza was about 157 years antique. I don’t think he was a immense 140, teo. Wait for you to see shoes at night, moisturized, functional, hearty, and he is a hunter hell. This is a great fight for boxing, but you don’t see any shoes, but you don’t see any shoes, years.
Shoes: recognizing his fear?
If Ennis was as good as Hearn thinks, why he rejected the highest career of a $ 8 million with rumors to fight these WBC champion 154-pound Vergil Ortiz Jr. On the card on February 22 in Riyadhu in favor of less repayment, which did not do much for his career against Stanionis from Eimantas? Fans perceived this as a classic duck movement.
There is nothing wrong with the lack of confidence after what he went through in his clash in September last year against Karen Chukhadzhian, Philadelphia. But Hearn must admit that Jaron showed with this move that he does not believe in himself enough to fight at the age of 154, and he certainly will not fight at the age of 160. Hearn must put the pipe and slowly leave.
Shakur Stevenson is regarded as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet, but one reigning world champion believes the Newark southpaw is ‘terrified’ of him.
Stevenson looked to be a level above Teofimo Lopez when they collided back in January, as Stevenson became the third-youngest four-division world champion in the rich history of the sport.
However, the unbeaten superstar is yet to fight since, despite informing O’Shaquie Foster that he could get his shot if able to defend his WBC super-featherweight world title against good friend, Raymond Ford, back in May.
Foster claimed a majority decision win to continue his second 130lb title reignbut talks for a clash between he and Stevenson then went quiet as the latter signed with Zuffa Boxing, whilst Foster eventually moved on to a three-belt unification with Emanuel Navarrete.
Speaking to Fight Hub TVFoster fumed at Stevenson for going back on his word and declared his belief that the 29-year-old is ‘terrified’ of him.
“I think that he is terrified of me and I think that he hopes that somebody else beats me so that he won’t have to ever fight me. He said it on Twitter, after Lamont [Roach] fought he was talking about ‘it is your time coming, I can’t wait to clown you on it.’ He is goofy.
“He is hoping that somebody else beats me, that is why he was hoping Ray Ford beat me, so that he can chat about it online instead of hopping in there himself with me.
“I am not a bully, but real guys know real guys. You sons, your mans, I beat ‘em up, why you ain’t trying to fight now?”
Navarrete-Foster takes place on Saturday, October 24, where ‘Ice Water’ could inch closer to becoming the first undisputed super-featherweight world champion since Hiroshi Kobayashi in 1969; a feat which Vasiliy Lomachenko is also trying to achieve.
Canelo Alvarez spends some time talking to Mike Coppinger on behalf of Ring Magazine about this state of his career, his October 31 title fight with Christian Mbilliwanting a rematch with Terence Crawfordand more. Read some excerpts from Canelo below with the full video in the link at the bottom.
“He’s a champion and he’s a very aggressive fighter. He go forward, throws a lot of punches and that make me excited because it’s good styles to make a good fight. Could be Fight of the Year.”
On why the fight was delayed from September
“Because I wasn’t ready. I have a little bit of problems with the family I need to fix and everything. And I like to have a pre-camp and then come to the training camp, so that’s why I postponed that fight because I learned from the past, you know…At this level [there’s a tiny margin for error] between win or lose.”
On what motivates him at this stage of his career
“I love boxing. Sometimes I try to say ‘why am I here if I accomplish everything?’ but I love boxing. That’s why I’m here, because I still love boxing and I enjoy it a lot.”
On a rematch with Crawford
“I hope so. If you realize that I always did good in my rematches. So, I always do good in the rematch so I hope that fight happens again…I just try to learn how much I can from the loss and from the other fights and get better, learn more and do better in the ring.
“[I’ve rewatched the Crawford fight] like five times, and it was very close. It’s not that much [that separates us]. But, yeah, it’s very [fine line between winning and losing] but I know what happened and I know my mistakes, and plus Crawford is a great fighter and you need to be 100%.”
Japan’s traditional year-end title bonanza appears to be underway, as U-Next announced a trio of championship bouts on November 29th at Tokyo’s venerable Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Leading the way is some variety of WBA bantamweight title rematch between “world” champion Riku Masuda (11-1, 9 KO) and former titlist Seiya Tsutsumi (13-0-3, 8 KO), who beat Masuda by unanimous decision when both were on the rise in 2023. The timeline here is, as best as I can tell:
And now, here we are. Tsutsumi, who by all rights should be owed a shot at Rodriguez, fights for a crappier version of the belt he never lost in the ring.
On the bright side, odds are we’re in for a treat. Two aggressive finishers with history between them should make for fireworks.
Three pounds south, multi-weight champion Kenshiro Teraji (26-2, 16 KO) makes his first super flyweight title defense against no. 10 contender Jassiel Ramon Amador Gamez (15-0-1, 13 KO). The 25-year-old Amador fights for the first time outside his native Mexico and for just the second time outside his home state of Baja California Sur; his strength of schedule is about what you’d expect, but unheralded Mexican knockout artists cause stirs on the regular and Teraji’s lost a step, so who knows.
Also at 115, WBA champ David Jimenez (18-1, 12 KO) faces former flyweight titlist Seigo Yuri Akui (23-3-1, 13 KO), whom you may remember from his Fight of the Year candidate against Teraji last year. There’s some f***ery at play here; the sanctioning body ordered Jimenez to rematch mandatory challenger John “Scrappy” Ramirez, only to turn around and grant Jimenez a “special permit” for this voluntary defenseclaiming it “has the authority to modify mandatory defense deadlines and grant special permits under justified circumstances.”
At no point in the press release does it say what those “justified circumstances” are. It claims that the winner must fight Ramirez within 120 days, but note their purported authority to “modify mandatory defense deadlines.”
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