Negotiations for a super fight involving Philly puncher Jaron Ennis and teak tough Texan, Vergil Ortiz, appear to have failed as Boots announced Thursday that “it’s time to move on.”
“I did everything In my power to make this fight happen for the fans,” he said. “I waited long enough and I stayed quiet through it all.”
“It looks like Vergil or his team really didn’t want to fight.”
The fight had a pre-built marketing hook with Matchroom chairman Eddie Hearn, who represents Ennis, commenting that it’s the best bout American boxing can possibly book, stylistically, and for what it means in the super welterweight division, with the winner presenting an argument that they’re the No.1 in the division despite not possessing any of the world championship titles like Sebastian Fundora, Josh Kelly, or Xander Zayas.
Ennis was even ringside for Ortiz’s destruction of Erickson Lubin and now seems disheartened at the collapse in talks. “I came to his fight in his home town and told him he was next,” he said. “That was November, it’s March and still nothing. It’s time to move on.
It did not take long for Ortiz to respond.
“He did everything in his favor to make the fight happen, except, you know, the one and only time we were both offered to fight each other in Saudi Arabia,” Ortiz said, referencing a prior negotiation. “Y’all can cope all y’all want. Doesn’t change the past.”
As for Ennis, considering he said: “two division champion up next” as a concluding comment, it appears he’s focused on a title shot and nothing else.
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