Eddie Hearn Reveals What's Likely Next For Jaron 'Boot' Ennis

As a result, Hearn said Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) could face either Ring Magazine and WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez or move up to junior middleweight, one of boxing's best divisions.

“We are discussing and negotiating that fight,” Hearn told The Ring. “And I think if Boots stays at 147, I think he will fight Teofimo. But if he doesn’t, I think he’ll move to 154 and he’ll do it next, for his next fight. The danger of that is you give up your championship and you move up without your championship, which is inevitable at some point.”

Ennis is coming off a dominant sixth-round stoppage of Eimantas Stanionis in a unification bout on April 12.

A fight with Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) is arguably the biggest fight that can be made for Ennis. Lopez is coming off a one-sided unanimous decision victory over Arnold Barboza Jr. on May 2 at Times Square and is one of boxing's top pound-for-pound talents at his best.

If Ennis moves up to 154 pounds, a potential bout with Vergil Ortiz Jr. is one of the best fights that can be made in boxing. Even outside of Ortiz (23-0, 21 KOs), fights vs IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs), WBA junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora (22-1-1, 14 KOs), or any of the other top names at 154 pounds could make for an intriguing bout.

Regardless of the path Ennis and his team choose to take, one of boxing's top pound-for-pound talents figures to be in big fights moving forward, and if his last performance is any indication, he could be poised to crack the top 10 of pound-for-pound lists if he keeps on winning.