{"id":830711,"date":"2026-11-11T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/830711\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:20:09","slug":"tim-bradley-says-jaron-ennis-must-beat-one-man-to-compare-himself-to-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/830711\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley says Jaron Ennis must beat one man to compare himself to Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hall of Famer Tim Bradley has called for Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis to face Canelo Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canelo reclaimed his WBC world title last month, dethroning Christian Mbilli with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> in his first outing since losing to Crawford.<\/p>\n

While suffering a convincing points defeat, Alvarez also lost his undisputed super-middleweight crown to \u2018Bud\u2019<\/a>, who would announce his retirement just a few months after their encounter in September 2025.<\/p>\n

Yet despite Crawford\u2019s decision to hang up the gloves, Canelo remains determined to secure a rematch with the American in 2027.<\/p>\n

For Bradley, though, the Mexican would be wiser to target a showdown with Ennis, who became a two-division unified champion by dethroning Xander Zayas with a seventh-round stoppage in June.<\/p>\n

In doing so, he claimed the WBO and WBA super-welterweight titles and is now gunning for the undisputed crown, with champions Sebastian Fundora and Josh Kelly standing in his way of such glory.<\/p>\n

While speaking on his YouTube channel<\/a>, however, Bradley urged Ennis to follow Crawford\u2019s lead by moving up two weight classes and dethroning Alvarez, thereby proving he belongs \u2018at the same table\u2019 as his rival.<\/p>\n

\u201cImma tell \u2018Boots\u2019 this: \u2018Boots\u2019, fight Canelo. Fight Canelo before he goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanelo, you want that [Crawford rematch]? Go ahead and beat up on \u2018Boots\u2019. Get \u2018Boots\u2019 into the ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce \u2018Boots\u2019 handles that, \u2018Boots\u2019 can come to the table and be like: \u2018I\u2019m like Floyd Mayweather and I\u2019m like Terence Crawford. I beat Canelo Alvarez. I can sit at the table with y\u2019all.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As Bradley highlights, the potential super-middleweight fight perhaps makes more sense for Ennis than it does Alvarez, who may be reluctant to face the unbeaten 29-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Tim Bradley has called for Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis to face Canelo Alvarez. Canelo reclaimed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-830711","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\/830711","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=830711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}