{"id":224265,"date":"2025-10-19T03:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:51:16","slug":"i-dont-know-who-he-fought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224265\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Don’t Know Who He Fought’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sort of praise Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis has been getting makes Keith Thurman<\/a> sick to his stomach.
The admiration the 28-year-old has been receiving stems from his first-round stoppage win in his 154-pound debut against Uisma Lima<\/a> this past weekend in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n

But while some are crowning him as boxing\u2019s next big thing, Thurman (31-1, 23 KOs) doesn\u2019t believe such a low-level opponent warrants this reaction. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what you get when you pick your tune-ups,\u201d Thurman told Fight Hub TV. \u201cA lot of people didn\u2019t know who he fought.\u201d<\/p>\n

After dropping his Ring, IBF, and WBA welterweight titles, Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs) immediately turned his attention toward the beltholders in the junior middleweight division. <\/p>\n

However, while Ennis has bloviated about fighting the best of the best, Lima (14-2, 10 KOs) didn\u2019t represent that. The 32-year-old may have been ranked in the top 10 in three of the four sanctioning bodies, but outside of Ennis, he’d never competed stateside and in his only other step-up fight he was beaten unanimously by Aaron McKenna, The Ring’s No. 7 middleweight.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although the former unified welterweight champ criticizes Ennis for facing Lima, he is a believer in his skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoots is Boots,\u201d Thurman said. \u201cHe smelled blood in the first round, and he handled it. The kid just couldn\u2019t weather the storm. That\u2019s the one thing about Boots: He is a good finisher. He\u2019s definitely looking strong at 54, and he\u2019s definitely gonna be a threat for anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sort of praise Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis has been getting makes Keith Thurman sick to his stomach. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-224265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224265","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=224265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}