Jaron Ennis does a great job avoiding punches in the ring, but the criticism he is receiving outside of it is landing directly on his chin.<\/p>\n
Shortly after pounding Eimantas Stanionis<\/a> on April 12 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to become the welterweight division\u2019s Ring, IBF and WBA champion, Ennis<\/a> had a decision to make. On one hand, he wanted to continue chasing down the beltholders in the division in a bid to become undisputed champion. On the other hand, making 147 pounds was painfully difficult. Is the criticism fair? Well, considering that Lima was his last choice, Ennis doesn’t believe so.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not who we wanted,\u201d Ennis told YSM Sports Media. \u201cI asked for [Jesus] Ramos<\/a> and [Serhii] Bohachuk<\/a> and all these other guys. Lima was the only one who was available and took it. Everybody else is either injured or got a fight coming up or a mandatory. I\u2019m glad Lima took it.\u201d<\/p>\n Ultimately, Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) wants to use Lima as a steppingstone as he makes his way toward the junior middleweight division’s current champions.<\/p>\n Along the way, however, he\u2019ll have to navigate the bloodthirsty potential opponents who are waiting on him, most notably Vergil Ortiz Jr.<\/a> Promoters Oscar De La Hoya (Ortiz) and Eddie Hearn (Ennis) have claimed that fight will eventually happen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ennis supposedly wants them all. For now, he\u2019ll keep his focus on Lima.<\/p>\n \u201cWe gonna handle him,\u201d Ennis said, \u201cget him out the way, and on to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis does a great job avoiding punches in the ring, but the criticism he is receiving outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":["post-68611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68611","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=68611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
While his goal was to become undisputed, he decided against sticking around and moved up in weight. He\u2019ll officially make his 154-pound debut against Uisma Lima<\/a> on Oct. 11 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fans have ripped the switch-hitting star since the news broke Wednesday<\/a>. Angola\u2019s Lima (14-1, 10 KOs) is a relatively unknown boxer. He has beaten three undefeated fighters in a row, but he has yet to fight stateside.<\/p>\n