{"id":207501,"date":"2025-10-17T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207501\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:39:13","slug":"eddie-hearn-convinced-massive-jaron-ennis-will-be-in-his-prime-at-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207501\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn Convinced ‘Massive’ Jaron Ennis Will Be In His Prime At 160"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve seen Jaron Ennis<\/a> on fight night or when he isn\u2019t in training camp, the one thing you’ll notice is his extremely muscular frame. <\/p>\n

Fans and media members have a hard time understanding how he managed to make the 147-pound limit. But now, those days are officially over. <\/p>\n

This past weekend, the 28-year-old made his junior middleweight debut a quick one with a first-round stoppage of Uisma Lima<\/a> at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n

Although his promoter Eddie Hearn believes he’ll be impossible to beat at 154-pounds, he’s completely convinced the world won’t see his best until heading up in weight once more.<\/p>\n

“I think the perfect weight for ‘Boots’ is 160,” Hearn told several reporters. “I think he can go there now and be in his absolute prime.”<\/p>\n

The former Ring and unified welterweight champion has nothing but big fights on his mind and made sure to call his shot after barely breaking a sweat against Lima. <\/p>\n

In a perfect world, Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs, 1 NC) would next face Vergil Ortiz<\/a> before taking on the division’s reigning titleholders and every other big name housed in the weight class.
WBC interim beltholder Ortiz (23-0, 21 KOs) is their number one target, according to Hearn, provided he prevails in a tough headline challenge against Erickson Lubin on November 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the opponent, Hearn is fully confident in the switch-hitting star but hopes the reprieve his body receives from fighting in a higher division is enough to keep him sharp. <\/p>\n

It’s not a given. <\/p>\n

“He will be tight at 154,” Hearn continued. “People think that when you move up in weight, all of a sudden it’s easy, he’s massive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’ve seen Jaron Ennis on fight night or when he isn\u2019t in training camp, the one thing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-207501","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-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}