Jaron “Boots” Ennis says he is not concerned with comparisons to former undisputed champion Terence Crawford as he prepares for the biggest fight of his career against Xander Zayas this Saturday night in Brooklyn.
Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs) will challenge Zayas for the WBA and WBO junior middleweight titles at Barclays Center, looking to become a unified champion in a second weight class. As his profile continues to rise, many fans have compared his skill set and versatility to Crawford, who vacated the IBF welterweight title in 2023 before moving up in weight.
“I don’t be worrying about that,” Ennis told Daily Mail Boxing. “I know that I fight like me, don’t nobody fight like me, and I don’t fight like nobody. My style is different from everybody else. I feel like I have got a unique style and can’t nobody do what I do.”
Ennis made it clear that he sees himself as a unique fighter rather than the next version of someone else.
“They have been doing that for a long time. They compare every fighter to somebody, but I just keep doing what I am doing,” said Ennis. “None of these fighters fight like me. They can’t do what I do. I am different.”
The unbeaten Philadelphia native captured portions of the welterweight championship before moving up to 154 pounds earlier this year. He announced his arrival in the division with a first-round knockout of Uisma Lima and now faces the toughest assignment of his junior middleweight run.
Zayas (23-0, 13 KOs) enters the fight as the division’s youngest unified champion after adding the WBO title to his WBA belt. A victory over the Puerto Rican star would give Ennis two world titles in a second division and strengthen his position among boxing’s elite fighters.
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