Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis and Uisma Lima are set to collide this Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, in a World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight title eliminator headlining a Matchroom Boxing card that promises fireworks.<\/p>\n
Ennis, the former WBA welterweight champion, is moving up in weight \u2014 and, as a former titleholder, he\u2019s earned the right to jump straight into an eliminator. The 28-year-old American has been one of the most dominant fighters of recent years, coming off a brutal demolition of Eimantas Stanionis last April.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoots\u201d has scored knockouts in three of his last four outings and now enters a new division looking to continue his reign of destruction and earn a shot at the title currently held by Abass Baraou.<\/p>\n
Lima, 32, represents Angola and currently sits at No. 8 in the WBA rankings. A rugged, determined contender, Lima has shown the grit and power to hang with the best. He\u2019s coming off a sensational knockout win over Shervantaigh Koopman in May and knows this is the biggest opportunity of his career \u2014 one that could launch him onto the world stage if he pulls off the upset.<\/p>\n
Promotional events for the card will continue throughout the week, with the official weigh-in scheduled for Friday. Ennis enters the bout undefeated at 34-0 (30 KOs), while Lima brings a record of 14-1 (10 KOs) into the biggest fight of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis and Uisma Lima are set to collide this Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-193488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}