Jaron Ennis has denied hating on Terence Crawford following his victory over Canelo Alvarez last month.
Ennis sparred Canelo in the lead-up to his unanimous decision loss to Crawford in Las Vegas, who secured the undisputed super middleweight championship.
The Philadelphia man received criticism in some circles for helping Alvarez in his preparation and was further questioned after revealing that he didn’t watch the fight.
Ennis and Crawford have long-been linked with a showdown and some disputed the 28-year-old’s claim that he didn’t watch the super fight.
However, ‘Boots’ has doubled down on those comments, but insists it wasn’t out of spite.
“I didn’t get to see the fight but good for him,” Ennis told TheOnlyKayla.
“He made history and he conquered three-time undisputed.
“He moved up three weight classes, because he only had one fight at ’54.
“That’s good for him and he’s in the history books.
“He’s making a mark for himself so that’s good for him and he did a good job.
“People be weird. People thinking I’m probably hating because I said I didn’t watch it.
“I didn’t watch it.”
Ennis is deep into camp ahead of his super welterweight debut against Uisma Lima at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia next Saturday, live on DAZN.
‘Boots’ relinquished his IBF and WBA welterweight titles after stopping Eimantas Stanionis in April and according to his promoter, Eddie Hearn he has signed to face Vergil Ortiz Jr next, who defends his WBC Interim super welterweight belt against Erickson Lubin on November 8.
Ennis is the number one contender with both the WBC and WBA, but insists he is not overlooking Lima, who is ranked in the top 10 of three of the four governing bodies.
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“He throws a lot of punches,” he told YSM Sports Media.
“Volume punches and tries to break you.
“But that’s not going to happen.
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“Even though he’s not known, guys like this you can’t take lightly.
“You’ve got to treat them like they’re a named fighter.
“I’m going to treat him like he’s a top pound-for-pound king and I’m going to go in there and just handle business.”
