Boots Ennis Goes to 34-0, Stops Stanionis at Boardwalk Hall in 147 Pound Unification Bout
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Atlantic City, NJ (April 13th, 2025)– According to Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, regarding Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, 34-0 with 30 knockouts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “This is a true, true champion. What you saw tonight is but a snippet of what’s to come.” According to Hearn, Ennis’ stoppage of WBA Welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis after six rounds was a walk in the park. Ennis, by winning the DAZN main event at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday night, April 12, 2025 is now the unified lineal, Ring Magazine, International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association 147 pounds World Welterweight champion.
Ennis had height and reach advantage, and was ahead on the punch count, jabs landed, and power shots landed. Stanionis did land some effective power shots, and was more accurate, but his punch volume was negligent. This enabled Boots to get through with jabs, power shots, and uppercuts which bloodied the nose of Stanionis. The Stanionis plan was to come forward with pressure. However, Stanionis was outclassed, took the eventual beating in round six, took brutal uppercuts to the nose on the ropes and got knocked down, then had the bout stopped by his trainer Marvin Somodio in the corner between rounds.
The greater enemy of Stanionis was not Boots Ennis. For Stanionis, the real enemy was inactivity. Whatever the cause of fight postponements and delays, including a scrapped bout with Vergil Ortiz Jr., Stanionis fought only twice in the past 44 months. Being inactive for almost four years, and having gone the 12-round distance in those two bouts defeating Radzhab Butaev and Gabriel Maestre, Stanionis was placed in the position of having to outpoint Ennis. However, Ennis had more than twice as many bouts, rounds and experience than Stanionis, and Stanionis has not had a knockout win since 2020.
All factors considered, Stanionis, now 15-1 with nine knockouts, Kaunas, Lithuania, needed more fights and more experience before being thrown in with the best 147-pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Ennis has only one major challenge available now: 27-0 WBO World Welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr.
Result was Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis scored a stoppage TKO in 6 rounds over Eimantas Stamionis, Welterweights (3:00). Referee was David Fields. Ennis now holds the International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Association and Ring Magazine lineal World Welterweight titles. The IBF supervisor at ringside was Melvina Lathan.
In the televised preliminary bout to the main event, southpaw super featherweight contender Raymond Ford, 17-1 with eight knockouts, Camden, New Jersey, outpointed Thomas Mattice, 22-5-1 with 17 knockouts, Cleveland, Ohio. At 34, Mattice, for 10 years a factor in the super featherweight and lightweight division, has gradually faded from contender status.
On the undercard, perhaps two more future Boots Ennis welterweight challengers emerged. 18-0 Shakhram Giasov of Uzbekistan, knocked out 17-3 Argentinian Franco Maximiliano Campo in the fourth round. Another rising Philadelphia welterweight, 14-0 Tahmir Smalls of Philadelphia, knocked out 13-2 Earl Bascome of Devonshire, Bermuda at 1:13 of the first round.
16-0-1 Mexican super bantamweight prospect Arthur Popoca of Sahuayo de Morelos, Mexico, stopped 9-8-1 southpaw Edgar Joe Cortes off Millville, New Jersey at 1:30 of the eighth round. 7-0 lightweight Francisco Rodriguez of Pleasantville, New Jersey, stopped 5-2 Naheem Parker of Camden, New Jersey, after three rounds. 2-0 super welterweight Omari Jones of Orlando, Florida, knocked out 13-6-2 William Jackson of Cincinnati, Ohio, at 1:47 of the first round. In the opening bout, 3-0 Zaquin Moses of Newark, New Jersey, knocked out 1-4 Alex Pallette of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, at 2:13 of the second round.
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