By: Sean Crose
Terence Crawford’s sensible victory over Canelo Alvarez final month was a combat that might be lengthy remembered. Nevertheless each Crawford and Canelo are getting on in sports activities years. They’re nonetheless younger males, simply not as younger as they was. Now, with Crawford unquestionably being the face of boxing, it’s ironic that he’s nearer to the tip of his profession than he’s to the start. In different phrases, folks already searching for the following face of the game. Enter Jaron “Boots” Ennis. Wildly gifted and very expert, he’s being checked out is nothing lower than the way forward for boxing.
After all Ennis is greater than the following massive factor. He’s been a world titleist, he’s overwhelmed everybody who’s been prepared to get into the ring with him, and his identify is well-known among the many boxing public. To achieve the extent that Canelo was at and that Crawford now resides at, nonetheless, the person must proceed to impress. He’ll have an opportunity to do exactly that Saturday night time when he faces Uisma Lima in his junior middleweight debut. Whereas Ennis will clearly be the favourite strolling in, this isn’t a time to underestimate any opponents. He’ll have loads to lose if he doesn’t look good this weekend. Ennis might have gained all of his earlier 34 fights, however Lima has solely misplaced on a single event himself.
“Boots’ is hungry,” fellow Philadelphia fighter Danny Garcia has mentioned to DAZN. “That’s the one threat for Crawford, combating a younger, hungry man who needs all the pieces you’ve gotten.” Whereas a combat with Crawford is probably not in Ennis’s future- then once more, you by no means know- Ennis may take a web page out of Crawford’s e-book by successful combat after combat impressively. It’s value remembering that for no matter purpose Crawford was largely marginalized for a lot of his profession. It wasn’t till he crushed Errol Spence not all that way back that Crawford started to get the credit score and accolades he deserved.
A WBA interim title is at stake Saturday night time, which is a optimistic factor for Ennis in that if he wins as anticipated, he’ll be in line to combat for the world title. And after that, who is aware of? Boxing is an odd sport. It’s exhausting to know what is going to occur subsequent. Who would be the new toast of the ring? Ennis is clearly in place of contender so far as that goes offered he retains on performing like he has. The knockout artist has pretty much as good an opportunity as any of being the following Crawford.
