WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr.’s father, Brian Sr., believes that Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis’ promoter Eddie Hearn is trying to get him to vacate his IBF 147-lb title so that his flawed Matchroom fighter, Conor Benn can capture the belt and use it to set up big money fights.
A series of suspicious events
Norman Sr. believes that Hearn’s reasons for not wanting the unification fight between Boots Ennis and his son, Norman Jr. (26-0, 20 KOs) wanted to put together, then lost the IBF purse to mandatory challenger Karen Chukhadzhian, is part of a plot to get Ennis to vacate his IBF title and move up to 154.
This would free up the belt for Conor Benn to claim it and then take advantage of his position as champion to set up lucrative fights against many different fighters who would never in a million years agree to fight the dangerous Boots .
The lure of profitable battles
Conor (27) will be free to defend the IBF title in the US against big names like Ryan Garcia and Devin Haneyt and make big money. Those two will never agree to fight Ennis because they will be agreed, and he can’t sell on PPV.
Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) is ranked No. 3 in the IBF and would have no chance of winning that belt if he had to go through Boots Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) to win it. But if Boots vacated the IBF title, Conor Benn would only have to defeat #1 Karen Chukhadzhian to win it, which still wouldn’t be an easy task, but there would be a chance.
“Eddie Hearn used Boots to get Conor Benn in position to get that (IBF welterweight) title. He’s going to convince Boots to go to 154, and Conor Benn is going to be the champion at 147. Look what I’m telling you,” Brian Norman Sr. said. Instagramcomes up with his theory on why promoter Eddie Hearn lost the purse bid for Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis’ IBF mandatory Karen Chukhadzhian and bails on negotiations with WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. made
It’s a strange theory that Brian Norman Sr. has, but if he is correct, we will soon see Ennis vacate his IBF title and move up to 154, allowing Conor Benn to dive for the 147lb belt with Karen. Whoever emerges with the IBF belt could make good money, the kind that Ennis would never get because he is high risk and low reward due to his lack of popularity.
