11/09/24 DAZN: Jaron Ennis vs Karen Chukhadzhian 2 (IBF World Welterweight Title)/Jesse Rodriguez vs Pedro Guevara (WBC World Super Flyweight Title)

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i agree with porter - boots needed better development. however, they are trying to be positive and say he is still young enough to tighten up his defense. to be honest, i dont remember many late 20s fighters getting better defensively. usually, it's offense that can always get better.
I agree. Floyd and Sweet Pea were kinda born with that shyt.
 

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Antt brought it up but Porter kinda dismissed it.

I've noticed people looking at this two ways:

1. People are being heavily critical of Ennis and saying he's not elite.

2. People are kinda dismissing it, saying that with a better level of competition Ennis would be a better fighter.

People in particularly his Philly Cult talk like Boots is the 2nd coming of Roy Jones Jr and destroys everyone. Roy is an ATG and the context of how people talk about Boots is that he should be/will be an ATG.

Now if we can agree Elite does not = ATG then yea, boots is elite but his ATG mystique is looking shaky.

People have to be consistent in their language, because if we look at Tank nikkas try to talk like Tank is a bum how is protected when many will say he is Elite and the best in Class and even his peers say the same, but does Tank being Elite = ATG, that is a separate convo (that people often conflate).
 

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i agree with porter - boots needed better development. however, they are trying to be positive and say he is still young enough to tighten up his defense. to be honest, i dont remember many late 20s fighters getting better defensively. usually, it's offense that can always get better.

Boots the most useless 33-0 record ever and they keep talking that active talk lol. Keyshawn got 1/3 the fights but you can't question his match making did wonders for his development.
 

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I know I have & I'm pretty sure @patscorpio & @LauderdaleBoss & others have said it for years

oh trust u spot on again. thats why i always believed that boots team been clout chasing crawford name and didnt really want no smoke. which is fine...thats how u build fighters to a certain extent. but nah crawford would prolly do dude worse than spence. matter of fact i would take spence in his prime over ennis. u cant tell people nothing though, especially fans boys. they will all learn the hard way. this might be the limit to boots, we will see if he can improve.
 

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Oscar cracking jokes about Boots now. Says Eddie ducking the smoke now.

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