The seventh-round stoppage<\/a> made Ennis a unified champion at super-welterweight, having already achieved the same feat at welterweight. Given that Crawford also held titles in both divisions, and the pair were once tentatively linked to a showdown at 147lbs, debate over a fight has inevitably resurfaced.<\/p>\nSpeaking on The Porter Way podcast, Crawford rejected the idea that returning to face Ennis would add anything to his legacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, like I said, man, of course everybody knows the competitive nature in me. But I don\u2019t worry about coming back to prove anything, because me coming back and proving something to people\u2026 It never matters. [If I beat Ennis], they would say, \u2018Oh, he only fought Xander.\u2019 They\u2019d come up with some type of excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
The five-division world champion then praised Ennis, while making it clear he still believes he would come out on top.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo credit Boots, he\u2019s a tremendous talent. He\u2019s no walk in the park for no one. He\u2019s a threat to anyone that he steps in the ring with \u2013 tremendous speed, great power, reflexes, defence, all that. The only thing that I can say is I\u2019m ten steps ahead of him in smarts \u2026 I can see the holes in his game\u2026 The shots that Xander was hitting him with, and the shots that Xander couldn\u2019t capitalise on, I would be able to capitalise on. And, when I capitalise, everybody knows I\u2019m probably one of the best counterpunchers there ever was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, Crawford put an end to any talk of a comeback \u2013 an idea floated by Ennis\u2019 promoter Eddie Hearn during fight week \u2013 insisting he has no intention of competing again.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever. I\u2019m happily retired. It\u2019s Boots\u2019 era. I pray and hope he take it to the extreme. Nothing but success for him and his family\u2026 People want to see this generation, how would they do with the previous generation, the same way people compare me to Floyd. We\u2019ll never fight. I wish him nothing but the best, I want to see him succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ennis will now continue his pursuit of undisputed status at super-welterweight, making no secret of his desire to face the division\u2019s other champions, Sebastian Fundora and Josh Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many in the sport would like to see Terence Crawford return to the ring to face Jaron Ennis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664537","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\/664537","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=664537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}