{"id":917328,"date":"2026-10-02T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917328\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:58:08","slug":"boots-ennis-vs-josh-kelly-unification-planned-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917328\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots Ennis vs Josh Kelly unification planned for winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Amid a lengthy interview with Pro Boxing Fans, Eddie Hearn <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lkj14zr3W9E?si=qPEj0pVl_KXnI6_l&amp;t=1247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that plans are in place for super welterweight champions Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis and Josh Kelly to meet in a three-belt unification in \u201ceither December or very early January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kelly\u2019s (19-1-1, 9 KO) trainer, Adam Booth, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/news\/josh-kelly-agrees-terms-for-jaron-ennis-unification\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously revealed to Tris Dixon<\/a> that both sides had agreed to all terms and were just waiting on a date and venue. With both fighters competing under the Matchroom banner, there shouldn\u2019t be too many moving parts to manage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hence, it\u2019s belt season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ennis will be a heavy favorite, but respect to Kelly for taking the challenge. Let\u2019s see if the stars (meaning PBC and DAZN) align enough to pit the winner of this against the winner of Sebastian Fundora vs Ermal Hadribeaj later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a lengthy interview with Pro Boxing Fans, Eddie Hearn confirmed that plans are in place for super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-917328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917328","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=917328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}