{"id":591588,"date":"2026-05-19T01:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591588\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:19:08","slug":"former-welterweight-champion-names-the-harder-puncher-after-facing-both-crawford-and-jaron-ennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591588\/","title":{"rendered":"Former welterweight champion names the harder puncher after facing both Crawford and Jaron Ennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Avanesyan<\/a> suffered stoppage defeats to both Terence Crawford<\/a> and Jaron Ennis<\/a>, but said only one of them caused him to experience an unfamiliar feeling of pain.<\/p>\n

The sturdy pressure fighter squared off with Crawford in 2022, just over seven months before \u2018Bud\u2019 became the undisputed welterweight king against Errol Spence Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back then, the American was coming off a 10th-round stoppage victory over Shawn Porter<\/a>, making a voluntary defence of his WBO title against Avanesyan.<\/p>\n

Having previously scored a sixth-round finish over Josh Kelly, Avanesyan represented a live opponent, but was ultimately halted in the same round against Crawford.<\/p>\n

Around 19 months later, the Armenian was gearing up to face Ennis after collecting just one victory \u2013 a fourth-round stoppage at middleweight \u2013 following his defeat to Crawford.<\/p>\n

Whether the lack of activity played a factor, only he will know, but Avanesyan nonetheless found himself on the receiving end of a fifth-round finish.<\/p>\n

\u2018Boots\u2019 would then unify the welterweight division before moving up to 154lbs, where he comes off a first-round demolition job against Uisma Lima.<\/p>\n

When reflecting on their power, though, Avanesyan, who is a former WBA (Regular) welterweight champion, told trainer Carl Greaves \u2013 who, in turn, told BoxingScene<\/a> \u2013 that Crawford was a noticeably bigger puncher than Ennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Crawford is a heavier-handed fighter. I was talking to David and he said that Crawford hits harder but that \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis was a bit sharper and busier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you take into consideration that when David fought Crawford, the whole six rounds he was in there with him he had dodgy gloves. When he [Avanesyan] came out of the ring afterwards, he said he\u2019d never had pain or lumps on his head like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, much controversy surrounded the gloves of Crawford against Avanesyan, with Everlast subsequently admitting that they were produced from a batch of defective leather<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Avanesyan suffered stoppage defeats to both Terence Crawford and Jaron Ennis, but said only one of them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591588","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=591588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}