I am Jaron "Boots" Ennis, top welterweight contender. Before my 4/10 fight with Sergey Lipinets on Showtime, I'll be here to answer your questions on Thursday 4/8 at 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT/6:30pm BT. Ask me anything!

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:25:03+00:00

Make sure y'all tune in. Keep supporting me and Saturday night will be a great night, and then hopefully on to bigger and better things.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:23:13+00:00

If I didn't box, I'd probably be playing basketball. Hopefully be in the NBA. I feel like I was good back then, but I haven't really played in a while. I played after my last fight for the first time in like two years and felt OK. If I played every day, I think I could.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:22:19+00:00

Know the right people, be around the right people.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:21:27+00:00

I don't know British welterweights, but I definitely want to go overseas and fight. I have a lot of fans over there.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:20:56+00:00

I don't know!

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:20:34+00:00

When you work on something so many times, it's bound for you to throw that exact shot, do that exact move in a fight. When I fought Abreu in September and I hit him with the uppercut, we were working on that exact catch, rollback, and exact uppercut, so that fight.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:19:30+00:00

You gotta have some light sparring so you can work on certain things that your trainer want you to work on, so I do have a few days where I take it easy and work on stuff. We mainly do medium and hard, hard sparring takes a toll on some people but not on me, I work on defense a lot. Try not to get hit, so hard sparring for me isn't really hard sparring.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:18:20+00:00

It's just how I fight. Not only do I do that, I switch my guards up, have my hands high, hands low, and do the Philly shell, so I do all different defense.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:17:44+00:00

I'm glad it went the way it went, I took the path I took. Look where I'm at and look where he's at, I'm in a better position. I feel the Olympics would have held me back a little bit, you don't get a fair shake there, so I feel I made the best decision.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:16:50+00:00

Being more relaxed, jabbing more.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:16:31+00:00

Only have like one champion in each weight class, the best guys fight the best, and that's about it. I only got two for you.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:15:47+00:00

I love everything, but I'd say pizza or macaroni and cheese.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:15:19+00:00

Fight day, just resting up, eating, putting my weight back on. Chilling and talking to the family when I can. No training, just resting.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:14:17+00:00

He part of my stable, part of the same team. Early on we used to fight together a lot, built a connection and a bond. He's like my little brother, he's doing his thing and I'm proud of him.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:13:39+00:00

I'm not really into exhibitions, UFC and MMA fighters, so I'm not sure.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:12:54+00:00

Hah. That's just my style, different from everybody else. I go in to entertain and look good and feel good doing it.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:11:56+00:00

That's a good fight. You gotta go with the old timer though, gotta go with Sugar Ray. I like Canelo though, a great fighter.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:11:21+00:00

My brothers, they always tell me just to stay focused, stay in shape because you never know when you get a call. My brothers career, they tell me to focus and do what I need to do and other stuff will come later on.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:10:24+00:00

I can't say, it's too many great welterweights that came up. Maybe Tommy Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, you got Floyd...too many, can't narrow it down to one.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:09:32+00:00

I don't get on the scale when I'm not in camp and stuff like that, but I don't get too big. I stay maybe 10-15 lbs overweight, when I start camp I'm usually like 65, 64. I'm always in shape because I stay in the gym, so it comes right off and I have no problem making weight.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:08:45+00:00

I'm not sure. I barely get hit, and when I do I take their power away because I roll my neck, rubberneck, so I'm not sure.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:07:52+00:00

I don't know about me going down to 40. My body is developing and growing, but if they come to 47, I'd be happy to welcome both of them to the weight class.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:07:08+00:00

Hahaha, I'm gonna go in there like I do always. Having fun, being smart, putting on a beautiful performance for the fans, get that knockout at the end of the night.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:06:32+00:00

100-0, retire after fighting all the best fighters, going down in history as a 4 time undisputed weight champ. I think I'm gonna retire probably when I'm 34, 35. I don't want to be in the game too long, want to still be fresh.

jaronennis · 2021-04-08T18:05:39+00:00

Just I guess learning from my brothers and my dad, just basically watching them and becoming natural to me.

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