Eddie Hearn always knew how good Jaron Ennis was, but even he may have underestimated his abilities. <\/p>\n
The Philly star hadn\u2019t come close to losing a fight but to be fair, it wasn\u2019t like he was facing world-beaters. It was easy to chalk up his wins to a byproduct of underwhelming competition. However, when he was officially scheduled to face Eimantas Stanionis, Hearn was intrigued. <\/p>\n
The Lithuanian was a title holder and highly touted, but not even his ubiquitous offense and perpetual gas tank were enough, losing via sixth-round corner stoppage. <\/p>\n
Hearn, once he picked his jaw off the ground and popped his eyeballs back into place, was speechless. At some point, he\u2019ll have to snap back to reality and find his man an opponent. But while he\u2019ll do his best to find someone worthy of Ennis\u2019 time, Hearn is afraid that he won’t be able to. It isn\u2019t because the boxing world isn\u2019t filled with talented and great fighters. But more so because Ennis\u2019 talent is ridiculously high. <\/p>\n
Well, actually, there is one fighter that Hearn believes can challenge Ennis and possibly beat him. <\/p>\n
\u201cBoots against (Terence) Crawford is the best fight in boxing,\u201d Hearn told The Ring recently. \u201cUnbelievable fight. You have two of the best technicians in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crawford and Ennis are analogous in many ways. They\u2019ve run through their competition, both are switch-hitters, and neither man is willing to back down a single inch. Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) wants the opportunity to face him but Crawford, on the other hand, hasn\u2019t been so receptive to that idea. <\/p>\n
At the soon-to-be age of 38, Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) can see the light at the end of his pugilistic tunnel. So, with practically one fight remaining, he\u2019s decided to move up two weight classes to challenge Canelo Alvarez in September. <\/p>\n
Hearn becomes a bit despondent when he realizes that a mega matchup between Crawford and Ennis likely won\u2019t happen. There is, of course, a flicker of hope that Crawford decides to stick around a little longer. Hearn, undoubtedly, will explore and gauge Crawford\u2019s interest but he\u2019ll give him space and time to deal with what he has ahead of him first. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got Canelo to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn always knew how good Jaron Ennis was, but even he may have underestimated his abilities. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10511,4313,79,22178,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-38912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-hearn","10":"tag-jaron-ennis","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-terence-crawford","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114377223276255397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912","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=38912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}