Unbeaten IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (31-0, 28 KOs) will defend his world title against unbeaten mandatory challenger Cody Crowley (20-0, 9 KOs) at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 13, live worldwide on DAZN. In his first fight as a world champion, Ennis will return to fight in his hometown for the first time since November 2018.
Boots Ennis: “I’m excited for my homecoming especially being the first to fight at the Wells Fargo Center, the biggest arena in Philly. I can’t wait to show out and put on a beautiful, dominating, crushing performance in front of my family, friends and supporters while defending and retaining my IBF world title in spectacular fashion. I’m ready to step on any and everybody that’s in my way!”
Cody Crowley: “Ten years ago, I arrived in Las Vegas with a dream of becoming world champion, unbroken by the sport. The only thing left to do is prove to the world in the City of Brotherly Love, that I am an undefeated champion, my spirit is unbeatable and I will fight for those who are too scared to fight.”
Nobody can beat ennis
He is very beatable. He gets touched way too easily against, dare I say it? Against easy comp.
Who at welterweight can beat “Boots?”
Crawford will beat Ennis. The opposition faced are two totally different levels
“Who at welterweight can beat “Boots?””
– Adrien Broner, that’s who.
– J/k, sorry, couldn’t resist………
All of the good fighters at 147 are gone so beating these guys does what for Ennis?
He is not a “world champion”. Crawford is the world champion. This overrated clown is an email champion. Nothing more. Period.
Crawford is moving up and has no intentions on fighting at 147. Boxing fans are killing me with the “e-mail” label. Was Crawford stripped a little too fast? Yes, but ultimately if the champion is moving up (Bud), doesn’t want to fight his mandatory, or is unable to defend the title then he should ultimately be stripped and the title SHOULD go to the interim champion or a tournament should be held. But I guess you all would rather have a Jermall Charlo situation. smh
I hope Cody Crowley is the 2024 Dave Tiberi.
This way all the hoopla about another media hype pugilist is derailed and people calm down about ‘Boots.’ The over assessing has been ridiculous. Jeff Lacy before him. Fernando Vargas, Panchito Bojado, Mark Breland, Meldrick Taylor and decades before them; Chuck Davey. All were over assessed in their come up. The point is — time will tell.
Even Micheal Nunn never returned to the Sumbu Kalambay dominance, focus and psychology after James Toney. For those who know, Kalambay was no cupcake.
I agree with you with everything you said except you might want to pull Mark Breland and Meldrick Taylor off that list both were Olympic Gold Medalist and both 2x world champions and thats back in the days you had to earn it and Breland only lost to other solid world champions Starling, Davis, and Vaca with a record of 35-3 25 KOs not bad at all and Taylor who ended his career terribly and most of us know why but still 38-8-1 20 KOs but his resume has big big names in it he was also a 2 weight division world champion and challenged but failed at a 3rd weight division against Terry Norris so those two i would not consider “hype jobs” they obviously also NEVER DUCKED either ….damn those were the days when real fighters fought to be the best…….
Those names under careful review were all rushed to what appeared as ‘prominence.’ The names you mentioned especially because of their [ Gold medals ]. Why ? A Gold medal achievement is more indication to navigate methodic and wiser.
They were not. Chavez v. Taylor and Starling v. Breland were not intelligent matchmaking in their respective time.
In furtherance, Boxiana is a careful universitarian syllabi that no Pugilist in history has received and achieved cultivation of said Science, as medical students [ receive and achieve ] in Surgeon Residence.
These are some fine champions you mentioned here. I wouldnt consider them under achievers. They’ve all overachieved, at some pint, done great things in the sport from Amateur and Pro careers. Everybody cant be Sugar Ray Robinson
Anybody else remember Chuck Davey?
Hopefully, during his upcoming TKO victory against Crowley, Ennis can get about 7-8 rounds and a decent sweat.
After Ennis defeats Crowley by TKO, maybe he can try to fight the winner of an upcoming scrap between Barrios/Maidana.
After his 2nd fight/victory, Ennis can go hunting for Crawford or Stanionis. I am not sure if it’s a good idea for Crawford to quickly move to 154 against Madrimov – Crawford needs 1-2 fights to settle at 154.
I am sure Stanionis (a hard out) will be there for Ennis (at 147). Before dealing with hard out Stanionis, let’s see how Ennis looks in his next two (2) fights.
Cody Crowley? Not exactly a step up. Hasn’t fought in more than a year, and with no significant punching power. What is the point?
He’s the mandatory. Plus Boots has been out for awhile too.
I’m hoping Crowley pulls off the upset. Why? Because I love the town of Peterborough where he comes from! Did some sparring with a Canadian heavyweight at the old Peterborough Boxing Club under the bus station back in the day. Fun times!
– I am from South Philly where this event is being held.
– I may attend if ticket prices are reasonable.
Dude, you have been attending a lot fights lately. You can be fightnews’ East Coast ringside reporter while Nordic has the west coast sewed up.
Killa King:
– Thank you for the chuckle.
– I am moving on in years (59), and if I don’t get to see the live fights now, there may not be a later.
– Take care.
– Gary G.
59? That’s the new 40, brother. I hear ya though. Have some fun!
59 is a baby.
We don’t really know how good Ennis is until he fights a top level guy. Something tells me he is the real deal. Crowley fighting because his alternative pays him a fraction of what he’s getting to fight Boots. Boots by ko in 5 or less.
1 guy says he will show out and dominate and the opponent just happy to fight for others that wouldnt take the fight.
Sounds like the fight was offered to him and he has too much pride to say no. Crowley has been inactive and wont be the guy to derail the hype.
This will be a stoppage victory for Ennis no doubt about it. Staniones would have been a better fight to watch.
Hey Carlos, Ennis hasn’t really fought anybody worth mentioning. Let him fight some top fighters and not a bunch of no names, such as his next fight.
None of the top names were willing to fight him except Bud. Now that he’s with Matchroom, he may get a Benn fight, and a Stanionus fight etc. Truth is the 147 division is that deep right now. Everyone is either still at 140 or has moved the 154.
Ennis is very beatable. He had great difficulty closing out Karen Chukhadzhian because of his movement. This guy is really calling himself the IBF champ. If TC didn’t have bigger fish to fry he would have kept his title and ended Ennis a long time ago. I’m not saying Ennis won’t eventually be all that he’s hyped up to be but I’m not presently buying it. Everyone left 147 so he probably can clean up and take the titles.
Boots is very-over-rated and beatable. Al Haymon pays his opponents to not fight and lie down. With this being in Philly, two judges will already have near shut-out cards for Boots filled out. This is another fixed fight to make him look good.