Trainer Derek 'Bozy' Ennis is pleased with his son, Jaron 'Boots' Ennis, who has signed a promotional deal with Matchroom to fight for Eddie Hearn's company.
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Bozy believes Matchroom will keep Boots busy to get him back in the ring, fighting as regularly as he has done so far this year. The 26-year-old Ennis (31-0, 28 KOs) has not fought since last July when he stopped Roiman Villa in the tenth round.
Boots would have fought twice since then, but with Showtime busy leaving boxing and PBC signing a new deal with Amazon Prime The video only had a limited number of days, it was clear he needed to move on.
Bozy looks at all the cards that Matchroom puts out almost every week and he hopes that they will keep Boots going. It may not be that easy. Many of the cards that Matchroom offers are in the UK, not the US. That's a problem.
Boots Ennis could certainly fight on the card in England, but that wouldn't make him a star in America. It is said that pairing Boots with British fighters would be a waste, as his popularity would not increase in the United States.
We saw how Hearn compared Demetrius Andrade to exclusively British fighters when promoting him and that didn't help him become a big name.
They still need to pay him well and find opponents willing to fight him. That might be the hardest because he's considered the best at 147. No disrespect to Terence Crawford, but Boots is now the man at 147 and there aren't many opponents willing to fight him unless they are well paid.
Bozy's vision
“I think it's the right place because they're moving the fighters,” coach Bozy Ennis told YSM Sports Media. YouTube channels his son, Boots, signing with Matchroom Boxing.
They fight like every other week they have a show going on,” Bozy continued. “So that's where we want to go…if you want to be great, you have to stay busy.
“You can't quit your job for, say, one fight a year or something like that. You will be nothing if you fight once a year, your time will be gone, everything will be gone.”
