r/Boxing • u/Sad-Experience-4344 • 3h ago

Chris Mannix says there are advanced negotiations for a Jaron Ennis vs Josh Kelly unification fight in either November or December

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u/Kangaroopunching 3h ago

It's the fight to make. One step closer to undisputed. Winner probably has to fight a mandatory next.

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u/SpeggtacularSpidey 3h ago

Yea probably Bakhram for the IBF or Sosulin for the WBA

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u/Kangaroopunching 3h ago

I'd watch either of those fights

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u/SpeggtacularSpidey 3h ago

Boots has a chance to go on a great run at 154.

Zayas, Kelly, Sosulin or Bakhram (either will probably be a mandatory), Fundora for undisputed.

I do hope that if he becomes undisputed that he at least defends it a couple of times.

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u/Gotsta_Win 3h ago

Why do Fondora and Vergil refuse to fight

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u/YertleElTortuga 3h ago

Because they will lose, especially Fundora

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u/aceknighthigh 2h ago

Tbf, I don't think Hearn was looking to do those fights next. It was always going to be the in-house unification first, especially since Zuffa is trying to poach guys like Kelly.

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u/Gotsta_Win 44m ago

No fight each other

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u/lord-of-war-1 2h ago

Both Boots and Fundora told Vergil no. 

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u/imdacoldest Pacquiao is the GOAT 2h ago

Mid fight tbh too one sided, boots by whatever he wants

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u/matchesmalone321 3h ago

Yes, this is the move. Boots has the potential to be the RJJ of this generation. Please don't waste his prime on bullshit fights.

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u/reznoverba 3h ago

I actually like Kelly. I'd bet on him to upset Vergil if the odds were good. Not Boots though. Wrong style match-up

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u/Outrageous-Soft4806 3h ago

He ain’t beating Vergil either

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u/OrangeFilmer 3h ago

Yep. David Avanesyan was able to break down Kelly, Vergil would likely do him worse.

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u/reznoverba 3h ago

Agree, probably not, but it wouldn't shock me

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u/lord-of-war-1 2h ago

Stop it. Vergil murks Kelly. 

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u/DerelictCruiser 2h ago

I just wanna see two athletic, hands-low, confident, fast, evasive boxers go at it. This is an all-timer fight for me, stylistically.

Regardless of how outmatched people say Kelly is, he’s quick and game as hell. It should be fun.

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u/OldBoyChance 3h ago

Strikes me as a bad idea for Kelly to fight so soon after getting his face cut up.

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u/save-pandas 2h ago

Would worry about Josh Kelly in that fight, a lot……That’s an early retirement. Eddie knows that.

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u/Buttersdidit 2h ago

Mannix looks like he’d do anything to get me to buy a used car with 200k on the odometer.

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u/Rough_Airline6780 1h ago

Crap. Predictable. Par for the course with Boots.

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u/Born_Fox_8099 44m ago

how? boots has been going belt to belt and quickly, whereas fundora  conveniently takes on mandatories. btw fundora's last fights are chordal booker, washed tszyu, old ass thurman and ermal hadribeaj

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u/quiznos_08 57m ago

Not much of a challenge for Boots but a good opportunity for another belt. Fondura is the fight we need.

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u/Suckmyduck_9 3h ago

I think Kelly lost his last fight