Hearn plans Ennis’s 154-pound debut with gatekeeper battle before he at the end of Vergil Ortiz Jr.

Eddie Hearn says he wants Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis to fight a ‘gatekeeper’ in his debut on 154 in August and then fight the WBC -Tussent time junior middleweight champion, Vergil Ortiz, before the end of the year. Hearn would have the fight next on August 16, but he was told that he would not be ready for that date.

Ennis’s debut plan of 154 pounds

Hearn does not say who Ennis (34-0, 30 COs) will fight next, but it must be someone good enough to get him ready for Vergil. He believes that boots will be stronger at 154 because he does not have to put his body through hell to make weight as he did at 147.

“What you saw against Stanionis was an exhausted man, and it is only afraid this man will do if he is not exhausted. That’s why I think he made the decision and said, “You must see the best of me,” and it’s time, “Eddie Hearn says to Fight Hub TV About Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis decides to move up to 154.

It was strange to see how Ennis Boxing Eimantas Stanionis rather than sleeping as he normally does with his opponents. It was a clear sign that boots did not feel strong enough to stand with Eimantas and hit what he went through to make weight at 147.

“I don’t think people are going to scream to fight against him (Ennis) in terms of champions, but now he has built the profile. You saw during the Riyadh season that they were everywhere in him to fight there, and we want to do it, ‘says Hearn. “We want to work with his excellence (Turki Alalshikh).”

The champions at 154 do not want to fight against Ennis unless the money is great because they know they have little chance of winning. This would require Turki’s involvement to attract the belt containers to defend against boots. Apart from that, Ennis may have to work his way in a compulsory position to force the champions to fight against him.

Gatekeeper first for Ennis

“We also saw which boots in the US build for me, you need that world-class gatekeeper, that top five man, and definitely a top 10-man to test the waters at 154, and then I think we should fight the Vergil Ortiz,” Hearn says. “It’s a massive struggle. We expect to fight in August. ‘

If Boots Ennis is going to fight a ‘gatekeeper’ on 154 to prepare himself for Vergil Jr., he must focus on the fight against Israil Madrimov or Erickson Lubin. The two fighters give Ennis a good test to get him ready for what Ortiz Jr. It is useless for Ennis to fight someone at the bottom of the top 15 because it will not prepare him.

“We actually said in the Riyadh season that we could fight against Vergil Ortiz on August 16, but he wasn’t ready, or the date didn’t work. I don’t know what it was. I think we will fight in August, and then we are Vergil Ortiz. I think it’s a brilliant struggle, and I think it’s the best struggle in the section,” said.

Entiz against Ortiz could possibly be the biggest battle for boots in the 154 pound division, but not the most difficult. Bakhram Murtazaliev, Sebastian Fundora, and Israil Madrimov are perhaps more difficult battles for Ennis than Vergil jr. The style that Vergil jr. Uses are used to order boots Ennis, and he finds out the back-to-back fight against Madrimov and Serhii Bohachuk.

Ennis’s multi-section future

“You will see that he dominates at 154, and also at 160 and maybe even 168,” Hearn says of Boots Ennis. “He’s going to be a world champion of three or four-sections. Wait until you see that Jaron Ennis has been fueled properly and does not have to go through the fighting week. He made the weight better in the Stanionis fight than he did in the Chukhadzhian battle. ‘

We don’t know if boots will dominate all at the junior middleweight, because he will still have to go through these fighters to do it:

– Bakhram Murtazaliev
– Sebastian Fundora
– Tim Tszyu
– Vergil Ortiz Jr.
– Erickson’s Lubi
– Israil Madrimov
– Xander Zayas
– Serhii Bohachuk
– Jorge Garcia Perez
– Keith Thurman

“He shrinks himself, and physically you can’t be 100% if you do it to your body. Now is the time to see the best Jaron Ennis. We are ready to make the fight at the end of 2025, ‘said Hearn about the Vergil Jr. vs. Boots fight. “We have a good relationship with Golden Boy and Dazn. They like that fight. Let’s see what we can do,” says Hearn.

Ennis has drained over the past two years after we weigh up, and he should have moved up rather than putting himself in a dead division through torture. After Terence Crawford moved to 154 in 2024, boots should have followed him. It was the only name Guy in the division. Errol Spence stopped fighting after his loss of Crawford. So it was useless that boots continue to take himself out to make 147 to fight guys like Eimantas Stanoonis and Karen Chukhadzhian.