DOMINATION! Boots stops Stanionis in six to unify welterweight titles

Jaron “Boots” Ennis confronted a number of criticism over his final couple of performances and made it no secret that he was trying to finish the doubts about him with a showcase efficiency. He would get that chance in what was anticipated to be a stern take a look at towards fellow welterweight titleholder Eimantas Stanionis in a unification match, and what resulted what a one-sided beatdown to take the IBF and WBA titles.

Ennis (34-0, 30 KO) began the struggle shortly, establishing an energetic jab to the top and physique whereas putting energy pictures behind it from each the orthodox and southpaw stances. Particularly Ennis would make early investments in his physique assault and he landed some clear early ones that will break the ahead momentum of the aggressive Stanionis (15-1, 9 KO).

The issue for Stanionis, nonetheless, was that he was unable to maintain an offensive assault as Ennis confirmed loads of slickness defensively — though there have been nonetheless defensive lapses on Ennis’ behalf when he would showboat all through the struggle — or sustain with Boots’ pace and tempo offensively. In fact for Boots, he likes to struggle like he’s having enjoyable, and he had loads of enjoyable tonight.

A sixth spherical physique assault from Boots would have Stanionis collapse beneath duress and regardless of making it out of that spherical, an already bloodied Stanionis was deemed to have endured sufficient by his nook, and that’s the place the struggle was stopped. Stanionis didn’t contest the stoppage.

So Boots scores one other spectacular efficiency, and this one towards a reputable opponent, and says he needs to take a while to take pleasure in this victory and his laborious work earlier than fascinated about whether or not he’ll proceed to look to unify the division or in any other case.

Undercard Outcomes

Raymond Ford UD-10 Thomas Mattice. Raymond Ford (17-1-1, 8 KOs) cruised to a unanimous resolution win tonight on three shutout scorecards of 100-90 over Thomas Mattice (22-5-1, 17 KOs). Actually it was simply straightforward work for Ford, who showcased his pace, accuracy and mixture punching to dominate a much bigger opponent in Mattice — who himself didn’t have so much to supply exterior of his toughness, touchdown solely 24 whole punches over 10 rounds in accordance with the punch stats. Ford seems to maneuver on to larger and higher fights from right here.

Omari Jones KO-1 William Jackson. Omari Jones (2-0, 2 KOs) has excessive hopes for his boxing profession, and in his second skilled struggle he would ship a swift first spherical knockout towards William Jackson (13-6-2, 5 KOs). Regardless of Jackson having a good wanting report for somebody going towards an opponent of their second skilled struggle, he truly hadn’t notched a win in over 10 years going into this struggle. Jones first strong physique shot put Jackson down for the depend, which is to be anticipated after Jackson practically tumbled to the canvas off a feint from Jones.

Shakhram Giyasov KO-4 Franco Ocampo. Shakhram Giyasov (17-0, 10 KOs) made brief work of his opponent Franco Ocampo (17-3, 8 KOs) in tonight’s DAZN opener, scoring a physique shot knockout of Ocampo within the fourth spherical. The struggle nearly didn’t even make it out of the primary spherical after Ocampo was damage badly by a shot and put down on the comply with up, however shortly got here to a just some rounds later after Giyasov continued to impose his energy and accuracy.