‘I loved it’: Jaron Ennis says hostile crowd fueled biggest win of career

Jaron “Boots” Ennis left Barclays Center on Saturday night with the WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles, the signature win of his career and answers to questions that had dogged him for years. Less than an hour after stopping previously unbeaten Xander Zayas in the seventh round, Ennis sounded convinced none of them required much discussion. The defining sequence of the fight came in the third round when Zayas landed a flush right hand through Ennis’s guard that wobbled the challenger, forcing the Philadelphia fighter to retreat and clinch during the most difficult spell of his professional career.

By Jason Griffith for PeeDeeWire

Yahoo Sports reports: Jaron “Boots” Ennis left Barclays Center on Saturday night with the WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles, the signature win of his career and answers to questions that had dogged him for years. Less than an hour after stopping previously unbeaten Xander Zayas in the seventh round, Ennis sounded convinced none of them required much discussion. The defining sequence of the fight came in the third round when Zayas landed a flush right hand through Ennis’s guard that wobbled the challenger, forcing the Philadelphia fighter to retreat and clinch during the most difficult spell of his professional career.