Terence Crawford vs Jaron Ennis has once again emerged as a fight that boxing fans would love to see.
Crawford became undisputed welterweight champion in 2023 before moving up a division, allowing Ennis to claim world honours at 147lbs and give him the chance to display what he is capable of.
After a lacklustre performance against Karen Chukhadzhian in November, ‘Boots’ showed why he is rated highly by so mainly with a sixth round retirement win over Eimantas Stanionis in April, adding the WBA title to his IBF belt and reigniting talk of a fight with ‘Bud.’
One man who was seemingly impressed by that performance was former welterweight champion Shawn Porter, who has sparred Ennis in the past and also fought Crawford in November 2021, suffering a 10th round stoppage defeat.
Having experienced what it is like to share the ring with both men, Porter has given his prediction on his The Porter Way Podcast for how the fight may go, and he struggled to pick a winner.
“I truly don’t know. This fight right here, if it happens this year it will go down in history as one of the classic fights that go with Martin Hagler vs Thomas Hearns, and Ray Leonard and all of those guys. That’s A plus vs A.
“It’s such a special fight because you’ve got two alpha males in the ring that are true alpha males, I was an alpha male until I got in the ring with that dude [Crawford].”
Porter was then asked which of the two hits harder, and again couldn’t split them.
I don’t know. That dude [Ennis] hit me with a right hand in sparring, and I was like wow, that was real.”
Any hopes of seeing Crawford vs. Ennis in the near future remain slim for now, due to ‘Bud’ preparing to step up to 168lbs to take on super-middleweight king Canelo Alvarez later this year.
