Jaron “Boots” Ennis is focused on Saturday night’s unified junior middleweight title fight against Xander Zayas, but he is already leaving the door open for another high-profile opponent further down the road.
With Benn being linked to a move up to junior middleweight, Ennis said he would welcome a future fight if the opportunity arises.
“He’s a solid fighter,” Ennis said to talkSPORT Boxing when asked about Benn before discussing the possibility of facing him in the future.
“If it come across the table, we can make it happen.”
Ennis declined to say whether Benn has earned the lucrative opportunities he has received in recent years, saying those decisions are not for him to judge.
“I can’t really speak on it because I’m not a part of his team or whatever he got going on. He’s getting stuff at the right time,” said Boots. “Things will come to you at the right time. You got to be patient. You can’t worry about what this person doing or worry about what that person doing. Just be patient and wait your turn.”
Benn has previously campaigned at welterweight but has increasingly been linked with a permanent move to junior middleweight, where several of boxing’s biggest names are now competing. A meeting with Ennis would become one of the division’s highest-profile attractions if both continue winning.
Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs) will challenge unified WBA and WBO junior middleweight champion Xander Zayas (23-0, 13 KOs) this Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Benn (25-1, 14 KOs) has been linked to a September showdown with WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia, although no official announcement has been made.
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