“You can imagine the number” Spence, Charlo Ask

Eddie Hearn is ready to match Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis against former aging champions Jermell Charlo and Errol Spence in 2026. He predicts that they will have a high “number” they would ask for to face ‘boots’ (35-0, 31 kos), because they don’t really want that loss on their records.

Charlo and Spence on the Radar

Spence (28-1, 22 KOS) is the least likely option for Ennis, WBA’s temporary mid-mid-weight champion, because he has not fought since his ninth Tko loss to Terence Crawford on July 29, 2024. It would take a lot of courage for Spence, aged 35, to jump straight into a long overdest against ‘boots’ after a long corner.

Hearn’s first choice for the next Ennis fight in 2026 would be against one of these world champions at 154:

• Sebastian Fundora – WBC
• Abass Baraou – Wba
• Xander Zayas – wbo
• Bakhram Murtazaliev – IBF

If Hearn can’t get one of those fights he’ll aim for a “A large tent” Fight against Vergil Ortiz Jr., NBT 154-LB Interim Champion.

Jermell: Two years of rust

“The key to ‘Boots’ is the legacy, the championship, and those are the belt holders,” Eddie Hearn told Brian Custer. channel on YouTube. “So you have Fundora, Zayas, which is a great fight. You have Murtazaliev. You have a Baraou Abass, who has just won the WBA title. But then you have the other men who have no belt, but fighting in the tent.

Establishing a fight against the former 35-year-old junior mid-weight champion, Jermell (35-2-1, 19 ko) would lead to Ennis receiving much criticism from boxing fans. Would look like Ennis robbed the old people’s home, Pushing a victim out of the hospice to pad his record with.

Charlo needs to show that he is still able to fight after two years of inactivity and three years since his last victory. He looked so terribly terrible in the lack of effort he put in his last fight against Canelo Alvarez on September 30, 2023.

Fighting against Baraou would probably be the easiest for Hearn for ‘Boots’, but it wouldn’t create as much interest as it would be if it paired against one of the other belt holders.

“You can imagine the number”

“Errol Spence and Charlo, you can imagine the number they’re going to ask for in battle because they don’t really want that fight on their resume,” said Hearn.

To bring in Spence or Jermell, Hearn couldn’t afford to be pitiful and boring with the money. He would have to dig deep to tempt one of those fighters. If Turki Alalshikh does not participate, and he probably wouldn’t take part, he would come down to Hearn.