We tried to fight Crawford, Spence and Thurman

“We’re trying to get the guys … Spence, Crawford, Thurman, all guys, man. We’re trying to get back there,” Bozy Ennis told Matchroom Boxing. “That’s why when I was talking to a lot of the podcast guys, I said, ‘Man, you don’t know (expletive) about boxing.’ You better look back. However, how many times do we try to get these guys to fight us? We are going to test our skills. That’s what we wanted to do.”

Bozy also disputed Terence Crawford’s previous claim that Ennis had an opportunity to fight him, but declined.

“Crawford said they had a fighting chance, right? But it was with the BLK people. They tried to get me to go over there and sign. I didn’t know that was the case until I found out when they talked to Showtime and Espinoza. I said, ‘You have to talk to Espinoza because that’s who we’re with.’ They never came back with it. That’s why Terrence keeps saying, ‘Oh, he had a chance.’ No, you never sent any contract or anything,” said Bozy.

Instead of waiting longer at welterweight, Ennis moved up to junior middleweight after unifying titles at 147. He will challenge WBO junior middleweight champion Xander Zayas at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, with the winner taking another step towards major fights against champions such as Sebastian Fundora or Vergil Ortiz Jr.

A win over Zayas would give Ennis another world title in a second weight class and set him up for future fights against champions like Sebastian Fundora or Vergil Ortiz Jr.