Terence Crawford: Is Jaron Ennis the opponent who can actually beat the pound-for-pound star? | Boxing news

Terence Crawford won undisputed world championships at super lightweight, welterweight, and even super middleweight.

He is undefeated in his career, and in that extraordinary run, he beat standouts Errol Spence, a 147-pounder, and more recently Canelo Alvarez, a dominant force at 168 pounds.

Beating Canelo at super middleweight was unreasonable enough, and moving to another division wouldn’t be realistic, even for Crawford.

But he’s running out of challenges.

In one fell swoop, he captured all four major world titles at super middleweight, so there are no world champions to challenge him out there.

Crawford won the first fight with Alvarez, so it’s compelling that there’s little call for a rematch.

Hamza Shiraz is a top super middleweight contender, and Chris Eubank Jr. is a big name, but both are yet to be proven at the world level.

Jaron Ennis, the undefeated former unified welterweight world champion, has moved up to 154lbs, and his promoter Eddie Hearn insists ‘Boots’ is the only fighter who can match Crawford.

“Tell me a fight other than the Ennis Crawford fight, which you really want to see Crawford in, is realistic,” Hearn said. Sky Sports.

“A lot of these guys that Crawford fought, unfortunately for him, are past their best, even though I consider him a generational talent, I think he’s unbelievable.

“The difference is with Ennis, Ennis is not at the end of his career. Ennis is not coming off eye surgery or a terrible car accident (like Errol Spence), or not under 80 fights (Canelo is a veteran of 68 professional contests). That’s not Crawford’s fault, he would have fought them all and probably would have beaten them all.

“You also have to understand that Ennis is ten years younger than Crawford.”

But Ennis still has to work his way into that fight.

“Crawford is a great, cross-generational fighter,” Hearn explained. “He’s earned the right to fight anyone he wants, and he won’t step out of the ring unless he pays a lot of money. So we have to do a lot on our part to make this fight as profitable as it needs to be.”

“We need to beat the champions. We would also like to fight Virgil Ortiz.

“We have to get past all these players and I don’t see him losing to any of them.

“The one fight I can’t tell you I’m 100% convinced he’ll win is Terence Crawford because of how good Terence Crawford is.”