{"id":555357,"date":"2026-03-23T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555357\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:35:08","slug":"eddie-hearn-confirms-jaron-ennis-fight-deal-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555357\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn confirms Jaron Ennis fight deal is \u2018imminent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cYeah, Kelly still wants it, and by the way, Xander Zayas likes that as well,\u201d said Hearn. \u201cBut there is a huge amount of money in the Boots-Xander Zayas fight. By the way, Josh Kelly has the option to fight Boots as well and that might happen. But also, I have no problem with Josh Kelly having a voluntary defense. Don\u2019t forget, he just beat Murtazaliev. What do you want to do? Murtazaliev, then Boots. I mean, that\u2019s a hell of a run, so we&#8217;ll see. But he\u2019s open to the big fights as well. There\u2019s ongoing conversations and it\u2019s an absolute priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, Kelly still wants it, and by the way, Xander Zayas likes that as well,\u201d said Hearn. \u201cBut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,710,49,48,19730,170627,82,125553,17571],"class_list":["post-555357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jaron-ennis","tag-josh-kelly","tag-sports","tag-vergil-ortiz-jnr","tag-xander-zayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}