Ryan Garcia says he’s concerned about fighting Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. He feels the IBF welterweight champion Ennis gets “hit an excessive amount of,” and he’d be “100 up for taking the fight now that he’s campaigning at 147.
Garcia wasn’t overly impressed with Ennis’ win over WBA welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis last Saturday night because he felt he was within the ring against a man who had no defense.
Ennis Targeted
“Yeah, 100%. One other big fight, one other mega-event, that’s what I prefer to do,” said Ryan Garcia to Fight Hub TV when asked if he’d prefer to fight IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. “I don’t shrink back from anybody. I’m willing to do this, too.”
When Ryan isn’t saying that he’s booked up solid with fights through the primary half of next yr, the earliest he could potentially fight Ennis can be within the second half of 2025, and that will depend on numerous things. The cash would should be there for the fight to make sense. Also, Boots would want to still be campaigning at 147, and there are questions if he’d still be fighting in the load class if he can’t get the fights he wants or he outgrows it.
“He [Ennis] looked good. I feel [Eimantas] Stanionis is an ideal fighter to look good for,” said Garcia about Boots Ennis last fight against WBA welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis on April twelfth on the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Recent Jersey. “Obviously, he’s here to get hit quite a bit. Not numerous defense, but Boots did what he needed to do, and he looked great in doing it. I look ahead to great competition in the long run.”
Garcia is putting it frivolously by saying Stanionis was there “to get hit.” He looked like a poor man’s version of Rocky Balboa. No wonder Boots has desired to stay at 147 for thus long. He knows that each one the champions are poor, and he can capture them and get superficial praise from gullible fans, who’re too slow to appreciate that it’s been all smoke and mirrors with Ennis’ wins.
Durability Query
“He does,” said Garcia when told that Boots Ennis ‘gets hit with numerous punches.’ “But he’s an enormous boy. He’s taking them well up to now, but on this sport, it only takes one good one. Why would that fight put you within the pound-for-pound category unless you were there before?”
Boots can’t keep getting hit as much as he does without eventually getting knocked out by someone. It might not occur until he moves as much as the 154-lb division, but it can. He’s getting hit flush with shots which are snapping his head sideways. You possibly can only take those sorts of shots for thus long.
“If he beat Crawford. Not even Crawford. There’s a bit of bit greater than that,” said Ryan about what Ennis must do to get on the pound-for-pound list.
“With a view to be the pound-for-pound best fighter, you could have to beat some pound-for-pound ranked fighters,” said promoter Oscar De La Hoya. “You will have Crawford and clearly Vergil. The guy that Vergil beat, Isail Madrimov. Those are the highest guys which are guarding the gate.”
Ennis should a minimum of attempt to beat those guys to place himself on the pound-for-pound list, but he’s not showing any desire to maneuver up in weight to tackle those killers.
“If Boots beats someone like that, then consider him top 10. But obviously, he’s an ideal fighter. I like his style. A Ryan-Boots fight is clearly a mega event due to Ryan,” said De La Hoya.
“I’m rather more snappier than Stanionis. I’m far more ferocious than that guy,” said Ryan Garcia when asked what happens with Boots if he hits him with the identical sorts of shots that Stanionis was. “It might be quite a bit. You never know within the ring. Some people could take good shots, and a few people can’t. We will see when get within the ring.”
Last Updated on 04/17/2025
