{"id":315249,"date":"2025-08-03T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315249\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:54:09","slug":"boxings-tallest-word-champion-offer-jaron-ennis-title-shot-in-new-weight-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315249\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing’s Tallest Word Champion Offer Jaron Ennis Title Shot In New Weight Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaron Ennis<\/a> is set to debut in his new weight division very soon.<\/p>\n

\u2018Boots\u2019 became unified world champion at welterweight<\/a> after wins over the likes of Eimantas Stanionis and David Avanesyan saw him capture the IBF and WBA titles at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

He has now vacated those belts, and will be competing at super-welterweight from now on, with his first bout in the 154lb weight class expected to take place later this year.<\/p>\n

A number of potential opponents have been touted for Ennis, but now a reigning world champion has welcome the opportunity to defend his crown against \u2018Boots.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sebastian Fundora<\/a> is the reigning WBC super-welterweight champion, and standing at 6ft 6in, is currently the tallest world champion in the entire sport.<\/p>\n

He recently put in the best performance of his career when he claimed a seventh round retirement victory over Tim Tszyu at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Speaking to DAZN<\/a> ahead of that bout, Fundora was asked who he\u2019d like to face next, and while he was open to anybody, he admitted that a clash against Ennis seriously interests him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhoever comes. Whoever is the better decision at the time. Ennis is a champion, he\u2019s already a champion, a unified champion, so we\u2019ll see. Whoever looks nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe the Ennis fight because he\u2019s already a unified champion and established already.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fundora isn\u2019t the only big name to be interested in a fight against Ennis, with knockout artist Vergil Ortiz also making it clear that he would love to face \u2018Boots.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis is set to debut in his new weight division very soon. \u2018Boots\u2019 became unified world champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114966355234087614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}