I would say that Boots Ennis would be the favorite over each individual fighter at 154lbs. But as you know, the totality of the opponents can have an effect on you. So if you’re asking me can he be the best fighter at 154, I would say yes. But if he fights all of the best fighters back to back and each fighter is in his prime, there can be a slip up. For example, from 1979 to 1981, “Sugar” Ray Leonard fought the 38-0 Wilfred Benitez, the 71-1 Roberto Duran twice, the 34-0 Ayub Kalule and the 32-0 Tommy Hearns. He lost one of the fights and that was to Duran. So my point is if Boots fights Vergil Ortiz, Sebastian Fundora, Tim Tszyu, Bahkram Murtazaliev and, let’s say, an elite fighter emerges, he may take a loss because of how rough a schedule it is to go through. But again, individually all things being equal, I would favor him over all of the 154lbs fighters. Things are fluid in boxing. But my guess right now is that his hardest opponents would be Fundora and Ortiz.
