Promoter Eddie Hearn wants the IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis to come to WBO champion Brian Norman Jr.
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However, Hearn says his warrior, Shakhram Giyasov, who is WBA mandatory, deserves his lap with the Ennis-Stanionis winner. Giyasov (16-0, 9 COs) went aside to fight Stanionis tonight. It will be difficult for him to set aside a second time for boots around a unification with WBO champion Norman Jr. fighting.
Giyasov’s price
It is feasible with the right step aside. If Giyasov is offered a bundle of money he cannot refuse, he may be willing to allow Ennis to continue with the unification against Brian Jr. If he wins against Stanionis tonight.
“It’s difficult because we also represent Shakhram (Giyasov), and he understood the size of this struggle for the sport,” Eddie Hearn said IceM Sports Media Over the WBA mandatory challenger Shakhram Giyasov walks aside to allow WBA welterweight champion, Eimantas Stanionis, to fight IBF belt holder Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis tonight in a unification.
This is the whole problem with boots that wants to stay at 147 until it reaches his superficial goal of becoming the undisputed champion. It will last forever before Ennis reaches the goal, and there is very little to become popular to capture all four titles.
Boots’ defense against Giyasov will eat the second half of 2025. Then there is the waiting time for Ennis, who is trying to fight a unification against the WBC Welterweight Champion Mario Barrios, who can fight next against 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao. It’s more time in the drain for Ennis.
“He (Giyasov) now has the winner. Is there an opportunity to fight against Brian Norman and Shakhram are waiting again? It’s hard because he got his lap. We must also give him an opportunity. I don’t know. I know that at some point we would look at boots at some point at 154. ‘
If Stanionis wins tonight, he will probably continue with the defense against Giyasov rather than paying him a step aside. In the end, it will amount to the money at stake for a match against Norman Jr. or a re -broadcast with Ennis. Hearn is not going to want Stanionis to get away without pushing to an immediate rematch if he beats Ennis tonight.
Hearn’s priority
“If he wins (against Stanionis), I think he wants to win fate. I hear rumors about (WBC Welterweight Champion Mario) Barrios against Pacquiao. I mean, what is it for the WBC world title? But Brian Norman, for me, is the struggle, ‘says Hearn.
“It’s a brilliant struggle for me, but we’ve passed (boots) (Stanionis). This is the hardest struggle in the section. If we get through, we are united #1, then we will see what is next,” says Hearn.
Last updated on 04/12/2025
