{"id":675923,"date":"2026-07-06T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675923\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:42:08","slug":"jaron-ennis-sets-his-sights-on-one-man-next-ill-chop-him-down-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675923\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis sets his sights on one man next: “I’ll chop him down easy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaron Ennis<\/a> has named his primary target after becoming a two-division unified champion against Xander Zayas.<\/p>\n

The two super-welterweights squared off last Saturday, with \u2018Boots\u2019 scoring three knockdowns en route to a seventh-round stoppage victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a result, the 29-year-old now holds the WBO and WBA titles at 154lbs, putting him in position for a three-belt unification match with either Sebastian Fundora or Josh Kelly.<\/p>\n

The latter champion claimed his IBF title by defusing explosive puncher Bakhram Murtazaliev in January, when a classy performance earned him a majority decision triumph.<\/p>\n

Kelly is now expected to defend his strap against Caoimhin Agyarko on July 25, featuring on the undercard of Anthony Joshua vs Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fundora, meanwhile, comes off a successful WBC title defence against Keith Thurman, who he stopped in round six of their one-sided encounter in March.<\/p>\n

According to his promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, \u2018The Towering Inferno\u2019 will face mandatory challenger Ermal Hadribeaj later this year, ruling him out of a 2026 showdown with Ennis.<\/p>\n

At the same time, though, \u2018Boots\u2019 has told Put\u2019cha Gloves On<\/a> that his preferred opponent is Fundora, who claimed his WBC title with a split decision victory over Tim Tszyu in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want Fundora. Bring on that tall [Towering Inferno]. We\u2019re gonna chop him down; chop him down easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

While \u2018Boots\u2019 highlighted the 6ft 6in southpaw as his main target, father and trainer \u2018Bozy\u2019 Ennis equally said they would be eager to face Kelly.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, neither man mentioned Vergil Ortiz Jr, who has long been on a collision course with Ennis but is yet to win a world title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis has named his primary target after becoming a two-division unified champion against Xander Zayas. The two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675923","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\/675923","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=675923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}