Trainer says Team Ennis repeatedly pursued boxing’s biggest welterweight names and rejects claims Jaron Ennis avoided elite opponents
Bozy Ennis says Jaron “Boots” Ennis spent years trying to secure fights with Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jr., and Keith Thurman before moving to junior middleweight. The veteran trainer also disputed Crawford’s claim that Ennis once turned down an opportunity to face him.
“We try to get the guys… Spence, Crawford, Thurman, all them guys, man. We try to get back there,” said Bozy Ennis to Matchroom Boxing. “That’s why when I talk to a lot of the podcast guys, I said, ‘Man, you don’t know [expletive] about boxing.’ You better search back. How many times we trying to get these guys to fight us though? We going to test our skills. That’s what we wanted to do.”
Bozy also disputed Terence Crawford’s past claim that Ennis had an opportunity to fight him but declined.
“Crawford said that they had the chance to fight, right? But that was with the BLK people. They was trying to get me to go over there and sign. I didn’t know it was that until I found out when they talked to Showtime and Espinoza. I said, ‘You got to talk to Espinoza because that’s who we with.’ They never got back with it. That’s why Terrence keep on saying, ‘Oh, he had a chance.’ No, y’all never sent no contract or nothing,” said Bozy.
Instead of waiting any longer at welterweight, Ennis moved to junior middleweight after unifying titles at 147. He’ll challenge WBO junior middleweight champion Xander Zayas at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, with the winner taking another step toward major fights against champions such as Sebastian Fundora or Vergil Ortiz Jr.
A victory over Zayas would give Ennis another world title in a second weight class and could position him for future fights against champions such as Sebastian Fundora or Vergil Ortiz Jr.
