Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis and Uisma Lima will square off on October 25 in a WBA super welterweight world title eliminator at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, headlining a Matchroom Boxing card announced earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Ennis, the former WBA welterweight world champion, has moved up to 154 pounds and will make his debut in the division with a high-stakes eliminator. The undefeated American is coming off a statement win, knocking out Eimantas Stanionis in six rounds to claim\u2014and later vacate\u2014the WBA welterweight crown.<\/p>\n
Across the ring will be Angola\u2019s Lima, a rugged contender riding a four-fight winning streak. Known for his grit and willingness to take on unbeaten foes, Lima has upset three undefeated fighters in a row and is eager to extend that streak\u2014though Ennis represents his toughest assignment yet.<\/p>\n
Ennis enters with a flawless 34-0 record, 30 of those wins inside the distance. Lima brings a 12-1 record, with 10 knockouts, and will be looking to shock the Philly crowd on fight night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis and Uisma Lima will square off on October 25 in a WBA super welterweight world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-67489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489","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=67489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}