Eddie Hearn likes ‘massive’ Teofimo Lopez fight for Jaron Ennis

HAMBURG – Eddie Hearn revealed he’s eager on matching Jaron “Boots” Ennis with Teofimo Lopez after information broke that talks to match them had begun.

Ennis is the IBF welterweight champion, whereas Lopez has been undisputed champion at light-weight and WBO junior-welterweight champion and desires to be a three-weight king.

Prime Rank had earlier confirmed that talks have been ongoing. Lopez is searching for a giant battle at 147, however Ennis hopes to unify, which suggests Lopez shouldn’t be a precedence.

Regardless, Hearn likes the thought of matching Lopez and Ennis, which he views it as an East Coast battle that would occur in New York or Philadelphia. One supply related to the negotiations cited a working date as March

“The problem is the one factor that ‘Boots’ needs to do is unify,” mentioned Hearn. “The rationale he didn’t transfer to 154 is he needs to unify. I just like the Teofimo Lopez battle. Boots likes it as properly.

“When you mentioned to him Teofimo Lopez or unification, it’s the quickest resolution on the earth. He simply needs to unify. But when we will’t get unification, it’s positively a battle now we have to take a look at. I feel it’s an enormous battle.”