Comments Thread For: Jaron Ennis has eyes on junior middleweight: 'That weight is poppin' right now'
IBF welterweight belt holder Jaron Ennis is next scheduled to defend his title against Karen Chukhadzhian on November 9 in a homecoming fight at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
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I don't think he's going to get any of the current crop of 147 belt holders into the ring. Well, maybe Stanionis. But he's squandering his prime. He fights too infrequently. He can't expand his fan base and therefore commercial leverage to entice other promotional camps. At 154, there seems to be a better opportunity of making a marquis fight against a hungrier athlete. I want a more pro-active schedule, more exposure, less waiting. This IBF mando does nothing for him. Keeping their 147 belt won't get him a big fight since sanctioning bodies have mutually exclusive rankings. So much talent wasted. Disappointing how his career has unfolded so far.
He might as well move up now , nobody at 47 is going to sack up and fight him to Unify , to their eternal shame. If I was him I'd find a way to fight at 54 but keep that belt at 47 just so none of the other guys who wouldn't fight can't get it .
I don't think he's going to get any of the current crop of 147 belt holders into the ring. Well, maybe Stanionis. But he's squandering his prime. He fights too infrequently. He can't expand his fan base and therefore commercial leverage to entice other promotional camps. At 154, there seems to be a better opportunity of making a marquis fight against a hungrier athlete. I want a more pro-active schedule, more exposure, less waiting. This IBF mando does nothing for him. Keeping their 147 belt won't get him a big fight since sanctioning bodies have mutually exclusive rankings. So much talent wasted. Disappointing how his career has unfolded so far.
Yeah , you pretty much summed it up perfectly , there's definitely a much better chance of getting that marquee fight at 154 , everyone at 147 has made it really clear that they won't fight Ennis. They ought to be ashamed of themselves , they're supposed to be fighters , calling themselves Champions but won't attempt to unify. If you call yourself Champion in a division, how can you tolerate someone else calling themselves Champion of that same division ? Man , that's fighting words , or at least it ought to be. Ennis should show up at Barrios next fight , go in the ring after , bltch slap him and take his belt. Then do that to Stannionis and Norman too.
If you call yourself Champion in a division, how can you tolerate someone else calling them Champion of that same division?
This. Which is why I refuse to call any of them a "champion" and instead consider them "belt holders" only. Especially since each weight can have regular, interm, and super champions: a farce.
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