Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis was in no mood to give challenger Karen Chukhadzhian credit for her performance in their rematch on Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Boots (33-0, 29 KOs) retained his IBF welterweight title, winning a 12-round unanimous decision, but Chukhadzhian (24-3, 13 KOs) deserved praise instead of being called “lower class” who fought him in the post-fight interview.
Points:
– 119-107
– 117-109
– 116-110
Ennis and Bozy Batatazela
Chukhadzhian’s powerful shots and skills had Ennis and his coach/father, Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis, in awe of the seventh round. Bozy kept barking the same order, telling him to get the knockout. He made it sound like Boot could just go out and score at any time when the truth is he’s drowning. There were no real instructions from Bozy. He was just telling Ennis to go for the knockout and it sounded like chaos.
Buthi looked disgraced during the fight and after it, the fans were not happy for him, the shorts were bursting at the way he did badly. Rather than take the high road and give Chukhadzhian credit for outboxing him for most of the fight, Ennis said he didn’t do well because he wasn’t the instigator.
Ennis scored the knockdown in the fifth round when he landed a series of hard shots after catching Chukhadzhian with a powerful left. He didn’t appear to be hurt but he went down because Ennis was pinning him down and throwing non-stop punches. Chukhadzhian could not escape the pressure. In the tenth, the referee took a point from Chukhadzhian for holding.
The referee should have penalized Boot for the low blows he was hitting Karen throughout the fight, because those were worse than what was going on.
“Bottom-Tier Fighter” Boots
Chris Mannix: “Your case is still the best in the welterweight division, if not the best, but in the second fight in a row, we have seen you get hit more often than we have seen before. What do you need to do to protect yourself to get better in these big fights,” said DAZN’s Chris Mannix speaking to Jaron Ennis after his win over Karen Chukhadzhian.
Jaron Ennis: “Fight the big names. “Sometimes when you’re fighting low-level guys, you don’t stand up for them,” Ennis said. “I know when I’m fighting a better guy. I’m going crazy. I’ll be on point. That’s what will make me better. I need these guys at the top.”
Mannix: “I was going to ask you about combining these titles, but it sounds like you’re ready to get out of 147.”
Ennis: “If we can get one of these guys, let’s make it happen. If not, 154, here I come.”
Eddie Hearn: “I thought it was a good game by Chukhadzhian. They said they would make a game for us this time, and they did. The boots are not always opened as if going against a fighter he would fear. I noticed this week, that he was very strong [translation: struggling to make weight] than normal at 147.”
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