{"id":511108,"date":"2025-10-19T04:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/511108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:48:17","slug":"i-dont-know-who-he-fought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/511108\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Don’t Know Who He Fought’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sort of praise Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis has been getting makes Keith Thurman<\/a> sick to his stomach.
The admiration the 28-year-old has been receiving stems from his first-round stoppage win in his 154-pound debut against Uisma Lima<\/a> this past weekend in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n

But while some are crowning him as boxing\u2019s next big thing, Thurman (31-1, 23 KOs) doesn\u2019t believe such a low-level opponent warrants this reaction. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what you get when you pick your tune-ups,\u201d Thurman told Fight Hub TV. \u201cA lot of people didn\u2019t know who he fought.\u201d<\/p>\n

After dropping his Ring, IBF, and WBA welterweight titles, Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs) immediately turned his attention toward the beltholders in the junior middleweight division. <\/p>\n

However, while Ennis has bloviated about fighting the best of the best, Lima (14-2, 10 KOs) didn\u2019t represent that. The 32-year-old may have been ranked in the top 10 in three of the four sanctioning bodies, but outside of Ennis, he’d never competed stateside and in his only other step-up fight he was beaten unanimously by Aaron McKenna, The Ring’s No. 7 middleweight.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although the former unified welterweight champ criticizes Ennis for facing Lima, he is a believer in his skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoots is Boots,\u201d Thurman said. \u201cHe smelled blood in the first round, and he handled it. The kid just couldn\u2019t weather the storm. That\u2019s the one thing about Boots: He is a good finisher. He\u2019s definitely looking strong at 54, and he\u2019s definitely gonna be a threat for anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sort of praise Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis has been getting makes Keith Thurman sick to his stomach. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-511108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115399026574708371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511108","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=511108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}