forMarriage did not have a fixed title. For years, it was placed two masses from the volatile El Train in northern Philadelphia, and previous strips of neighboring houses and pillar stores. These days, he sits in a calm residential extension from the Great Northeast. The site may change and register on the door, but inside, it is always: a temple of hardness and repetition, where the conversation is cheap and the fighters make bricks from bricks, a tour after the tour. Fenugreek is sacred, and the rules are not written but understood: work, waiting, and one day, your shot will come. For Jaron Ennis, the talented, talented weight of Philly known as boots, on that day arrives on Saturday night.
Ennis, the hero of the International Weight Confederation in weight, who has not defeated more than 33 professional battle with 29 wins inside the distance, will put everything on the line under the domed ceilings in the Atlantic City Hall against Eimantas Stanionis, a rugged busy, from Lithuania that bears the release of global seed boxes. For Ennis, it’s more than just a unification attack. It is a major opportunity to get rid of the perception that, despite his pure record and the status of the world champion, is still a fighter on their doorstep instead of establishing it firmly at the summit.
“Boxing Future”, as Eddie Herne loves to contact him. Ennis silver promoter that is not intended to be alone. In fact, when a The last Ring Magazine feature The hierarchy of the expected boxing of boxing was within five years, and Pots was a controversial choice for 1. However, this long -awaited promise requires a penetration currently.
Since Turning Pro in 2016, Ennis has presented a series of outstanding victories, gathering a knockout and no -sized noise between sport. The 27 -year -old mixes the sports elite, a joyful creativity, the defeat’s exit power with a high -episode intelligence rate and the ability to manage rare, which makes him one of the most boxing operators. It is long, meager and difficult to touch: 5 feet and 10 inches with the arrival of 74in, which creates problems before the first punch. But the recent offers – especially the victory of the decision on Karen Chuhajadzian in a match in the month of November, which lacked the insistence – was met with silent praise. The frequency of fans and critics alike is not related to its talent, which is clearly great and transcends the conflict. It comes to whether it has been fully exploited.
Ennis heard doubts. “If you close,” Oh, you should take it out. “He said this week:” If you take out someone, “Oh, we don’t know if he has a gas tank.” “I am now at the stage, I don’t care what people say. I do what is better for me.”
He admits that this compulsory return was forced to shift in the approach. Eneis said: “We are forced to fight him to keep the IBF belt.” “I am happy that I fought that battle. He made me more intelligent in this camp.”
His father and coach saw him, Derek, “Brazi”, Ennis, the father, too. “I think he entered the habit of expelling everyone. I want to get away from it. Maybe he forgot what he achieved there: tone, boxing and moving.”
These basics are what was built on fortified towers. Located inside the Champ facility in Philly in the city’s Bustleton section, the Gym Judies Foundation on Flash and a good reason. Jaron is the third son of Ennis who takes into the circuit – the heaviest heavy at the end of the task that started decades ago. Before him, Derek “Bo” Innis came, the smart average weight, which won the USBA regional title and defeated the competitors in the future Like Gabriel Rosado. Ennis, a larger and stronger weight on average, started 17-0, the NABF belt on the plane with a stop from Victor Laris in 2010 and seemed ready to penetrate. But the two brothers did not say a number of the highest levels of sports.
Now that Point Point has reached Boots, who enters the largest battle in his career on Saturday evening as the number 1 consensus in the world. While leaving the TERENCE CRAWFORD and Errol Spence championship, it has abandoned the division since the belts were occupied even if the belts are occupied. Stanone, who ranked second, stands on his way-and the 30-year-old may be the type of discount that finally highlights the best in shoes.
“This is the moment the family is waiting for,” Poh Ennis said at the final press conference on Thursday at the Casino Casart Atlantic City Hotel. “This is the battle that you put [Boots] In a different category. “
Stanoneus (15-0, 9 Cos) is a former Olympic that fights with size, gravel and an uninterrupted engine. After sitting in 2023 due to repeated postponements from a seizure with Vergil Ortiz Jr, he returned last April by beating Gabriel Maestre. His autobiography is not long, but it is strong. He carries himself as a man who was waiting for years for this shot.
It also enters the ring with more than one address on the line. He said on Thursday: “My child may come today or tomorrow,” noting that his wife is at any moment. “I left everything behind it because I believe in myself. This was a more brutal camp. I sacrificed everything because I think I can win. I am all the gas, not the brake.”
“Then you will work on a rock,” Eneis answered with an easy smile.
Clash clash and work promises. Stanionis comes forward and is constantly pressing on the case. Ennis flourishes angles, reactions and sharp meters. If the shoes are secured, Stanionis’s aggression may come with reverse results. If not, then the Lithuanian has enough grays to test the borders of Einis and the defense.
Bozy Ennis, the growing coach of the demand that has trained Jaron since childhood and dozens of senior fighters in Philadelphia, believes that this is a pivotal thorn on the road. He said on Thursday: “Stanyone is one of the best in the section.” “It is a good battle and it is a difficult battle.”
The third battle of Ennis is under the slogan of Matchroom, a partnership that he embraced after sport was folded in Shootim in late 2023 and left the uncertainty of his career. Now under the bright lights of the Atlantic City corridor, he sees the opportunity not only to win but to make a statement. “I am ready to appear, put a show, and show the world why I am the best.” “Come on Saturday night, I will take all these belts home.”
Ennis critics have argued that he has not yet faced a deduction that he could really pay, and put his amazing talents in testing the appropriate road. This changes on Saturday. With the presence of the historic corridor hall where the background-a 96-year-old place hosts the likes of Mike Tyson, Ivander Hoilledd, Linux Lewis, Bernard Hopkins, and Artoro Gatti-the timing of the specified performance. “It was one of the favorite battles Floyd against Gati“This was my role,” Enis said, and that was in this square. Now it’s my role. “
But this moment is not only related to shoes. It is the culmination of family disease for decades. The professional profession of the professionals has ended with a modest record of four wins and two losses in the medium weight, but I heard it as a coach, and Miracle 69 years old, and grew with shoes. His children have filled Feli gyms and local fighting cards for more than 15 years. But Gorld Title Glory – the type that throws sticks – may fade. yet. “The relationship between the father and the son is different,” he said. “We believe in what we build. We are not in a hurry. We are ready.”
After Saturday, there may be no further waiting. The win put ennis at 34-0. He puts unification attacks with Mario Barius, WBC BRIAN Norman JR. It puts shoes firmly in the conversation between the sports elite. He did not hide his long-term goals-that he wanted each title at 147 pounds before moving to 154-but he insists that he set all the talk about the opponents in the future to focus on the task on hand. “I am here to collect all the belts, and I am closed to Stanionis,” Enes said. “Win on Saturday and I am the hero of the WBA, IBF and Ring magazine, and then we will see the next. But I am discount in Stanionis, undoubtedly, and I am ready to give everyone what they ask.”
In fact, most of the piston spent on Thursday playing Sudoku on his phone. But boxing, more than most sports, does not reward the possibilities. Performance is rewarded under the fire. Stanunes will apply the pressure. Whether it could say everything about the ceiling that was said long ago – and the floors that his family built in order to stand on. Ennis said: “I am not looking for a knockout.” “But it will come.”
Bozi thinks the same and more. “Shoes have not reached another level yet,” he said. “Perhaps Stanone’s highlights. That’s what I am waiting for. After that, the world will see something.”
And if this thing is coronation, it will not only belong to neighboring. It will belong to Germantown. To the cell. To Boo and Farah. For the Ennis family, which I dreamed of first. On Saturday night in Atlantic City, Botus fights for all of them.