There is plenty of great talent in the boxing world right now and Floyd Mayweather certainly has an eye for it.
Up and down the divisions there have been more undisputed champions than ever in recent years, including Oleksandr Usyk at cruiser and then heavyweight, Terence Crawford at welterweight after lightweight, and Naoya Inoue, who has also managed the feat at bantam and super-bantamweight.
There are also plenty of world champions on a quest to repeat that feat – Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev are to battle it out for all four of the light-heavyweight belts later in the year.
Then there are the single belt holders who may be a year or two away from unifications and undisputed fights – Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, Shakur Stevenson and Vasiliy Lomachenko at lightweight and Teofimo Lopez and Devin Haney one division up.
On the welterweight scene, outside of the two top champions of Crawford and Errol Spence Jr in recent years who have both now moved up in weight, Jaron Ennis is the name on everybody’s lips.
Speaking to FightHype, former Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe detailed taking a call from Floyd after the first time he saw the Philadelphia native fight.
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“Floyd was like “who the f**k is this ‘Boots’ guy? That m*********r can fight his ass off”. He right now is one of the best fighters in the world, without a belt.
Everybody determines the belt is the highest goal that you can achieve and become a champion but the guy who is able to hold onto that hardware, that’s the guy who continues night in night out to prove that he is better than everybody else out there.”
The 27-year-old has a flashy style that is as impressive on offence as it is defence, switch-hitting and moving to bamboozle opponents. In 32 fights, he has zero losses and 29 knockouts, the latest of which was against David Avanesyan in five rounds.
‘Boots’ got his belt not long after Crawford vacated his welterweight titles to move up to 154 and become a four-division titlist. He is currently chasing the fight with ‘Bud’ and has said he would move up to get it, but has also expressed an interest in collecting the three remaining major titles at 147.
