{"id":675295,"date":"2026-07-05T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675295\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:32:09","slug":"bob-arum-sums-up-jaron-ennis-chances-of-beating-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675295\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum sums up Jaron Ennis&#8217; chances of beating Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Arum has highlighted one of Terence Crawford\u2019s greatest attributes, questioning whether <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/jaron-ennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaron Ennis<\/a> would have the wizardry to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite hanging up his gloves in December, \u2018Bud\u2019 has been repeatedly mentioned as a potential opponent for Ennis, who comes off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13558467\/jaron-ennis-pulls-off-knockout-win-over-xander-zayas-to-unify-wba-and-wbo-junior-middleweight-titles-as-ben-whittaker-stops-richard-rivera#:~:text=Jaron%20Ennis%20was%20dominant%20as,includes%20an%20impressive%2032%20knockouts.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">career-best victory over Xander Zayas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was considered a clear favourite heading into their showdown last weekend, yet it was nonetheless an awe-inspiring performance as he scored three knockdowns en route to a seventh-round stoppage victory.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, \u2018Boots\u2019 became a two-division unified champion by claiming the WBO and WBA super-welterweight titles, dethroning one of the flagship fighters at 154lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Against Crawford, however, many believe that Ennis would enjoy comparatively meagre success, even with the 38-year-old having seemingly settled into retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The American\u2019s last outing saw him <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-defines-career-with-remarkable-canelo-alvarez-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dethrone Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in September, becoming a three-division undisputed champion by scoring a unanimous decision victory at 168lbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bud\u2019 was arguably most effective at 147lbs, though, as suggested by his surprisingly one-sided ninth-round stoppage victory over Errol Spence Jr in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>While considering this performance, in particular, Top Rank promoter Arum told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8tieHWZ-nXo?si=TqWpGJB0kBgZiXy0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FightHype<\/a> that he wonders how Ennis would compete with Crawford\u2019s switch-hitting style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrawford is an awfully good fighter, and it would take a real wizard to beat him. Crawford has something that no other fighter around has \u2026 He fights equally well as a southpaw and a right-hander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, the fighter he\u2019s fighting trains for him as an orthodox fighter \u2013 and so, from the first round, he\u2019ll turn southpaw, and the guy isn\u2019t ready for him. That\u2019s what beat Spence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Crawford is more accomplished, as a former five-division world champion, Ennis has also proven to be equally effective when fighting out of the orthodox and southpaw stances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Arum has highlighted one of Terence Crawford\u2019s greatest attributes, questioning whether Jaron Ennis would have the wizardry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675295","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\/675295","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=675295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}