April 23, 2024
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Matchroom wins Ennis-Crowley purse bid

At an IBF welterweight purse bid, Matchroom Boxing won the right to promote a clash between world champion Jaron Ennis and Cody Crowley. Matchroom outbid TGB Promotions $3.9 million to $2 million. Ennis will have an 85-15 split. The bout will reportedly have a July date and take place in Philadephia.

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  • Clearly they overbid to make sure they got this fight and that has to make you feel good if you’re Ennis. If my math (and by “my math” I mean Google’s math) is correct, that’s about 3.3m for Boots. Although I did hear that Crowley’s name also went to purse bids for a WBC eliminator and the money he’d make in that fight, against Cissokho, would be more than double his $60k here, as half of $477,777. One is a title shot for much less money in a likely harder fight, the other is significantly much more, but not a title shot against a lesser opponent…. I wonder which he’ll choose.

    • If smart, he will go with the money. If extremely confident, he will fight ennis. If he just wants to fight the best, he will go with Ennis. My money says he fights cisshoko.

      • Well, as it turns out, my math is trash here, Killa. If the purse is 3.9m and Boots takes 3.3, that leaves ~600k, not 60. I read it wrong. So about 140k for Cissokho or triple that for Boots… Boots it is.

        • Yeah, Lucie, I knew it all along. ( Yeah, right!) I am so glad I only had to take one class of math in college otherwise I would have never made it. I believe as long as I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, I’m good. Ennis it is!

    • Mi sense tells me that against Ennis is a mismatch for less money than against Cissokho, where he really has a chance. Ennis would walk through him with easy

    • Hey, Boots fought hard for that IBF strap. :p

      Now he can farce a guy who’s pretty much cleaned out the division.

  • I will be surprised if Crowley fights Ennis. He was threatening retirement not that long ago. Until he signs I think he goes the path of least resistance since Ennis will walk through the Temu version of Caleb Plant

  • If Crowley is considering retirement at all he takes the fight and the payday.. and gets smoked.

  • Arranging for an Ennis/Crowley fight is a good “welcome back” fight for Ennis because Crowley will make Ennis put in some rounds.

    After he works up a sweat fighting Crowley, Ennis will later go hunting for a higher profile fight (e.g. Barrios or Cissokho). I tend to worry about a young cat (like Ennis) possibly returning home for big fights – too many distractions. I do not believe a fight against Crawford will ever occur.

    Eventually, maybe a big fight against Stanionis down the road (a very tough road).

  • $262,777 for Crowley if he won the WBC vacant belt over in France. $585,000 to fight in Philadelphia.
    It would probably cost a lot to fly his team over to France. If he had the WBC belt, he would make a lot more to fight Ennis on neutral turf, or in Canada. The odds of Crowley winning decisions in either fight if somewhat close, very slim.

  • – Cody Crowley’s current status on BoxRec is “inactive”.
    – His last fight was over a year ago on 3/23/24.

      • Per the IBF’s website, at 147 pounds, Boots Ennis is the Champion, while Crowley is rated #3. The #1 and #2 contender slots are vacant.

  • Boots needed an opportunity to get to the pinnacle of the sport and the Matchroom deal should get him the fights that he needs to get there.

  • “The bout will reportedly have a July date and take place in Philadephia.”
    – And if the ticket prices are reasonable, I will attend…………

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