American Ennis crowns the best fighter in the division after stopping Lithuanian Stanionis after six rounds.
Undefeated Jaron Ennis has successfully completed the IBF and WBA welterweight belts in unified boxing after stopping Eimantas Stanionis with his sixth technical knockout victory in the world title fight depicting bruises in New Jersey.
In an explosive contest held in Atlantic City on Saturday, Ennis won after putting on a barrage of wild body shots on Stanionis and crowning the best fighter at 147 pounds (66kg).
Stanionis, 30, began to brighten up and caught Ennis in the third round with two crunch overhand rights. However, 27-year-old Ennis responded in the dominant fourth round, wobbling Stanionis with his jabs, mercilessly targeting Lithuanian bodies.
Ennis sent Stanionis onto the ropes and sent him to one knee in a series of left-handed uppercuts and body shots. Ennis tripped Stanionis with a huge blow to his body just before Bell. And the Philadelphia fighter stared at him as he hit the horn.
The seventh round never came after Stanionis’ corner decided that the Lithuanians could not continue.
“When I fight the best guy, the good guy, that’s what you see,” Ennis said. “You’re going to see me completely different. When I have a guy at the top and I’m fighting for something, that’s a completely different story. No one can ruin me.”
Ennis quickly covered himself with three championship belts.
“This is what you’re looking for,” Ennis asked.
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A native of northwest Philadelphia and a rising star in the sport, Ennis is already an IBF welterweight champion, who took the WBA and Ring Magazine titles from Stanionis. Ennis said it was so much needed to throw himself into a pound-pound conversation in the ring following the Signature victory, and it was too early to tell if he would go up in weight class.
Ennis, who improved to 34-0 with 30 knockouts, said he later decided to “hold the show” on the third defense of the IBF title.
“What went crazy is that I had a dream like this that I was going to stop him.
“The biggest part was that I was myself and had a living body before me. I did the show, had fun, used speed, power, defense.”
Stanionis fell 15-1 with nine knockouts following a loss.
The 27-year-old Ennis has won eight consecutive fights overall and four consecutive title defenses since beating Ukrainian fighter Karen Chuhajian for the championship in January 2023.
Stanionis, 30, who represented Lithuania at the 2016 Olympics, was promoted to the full WBA champion in August when Terrence Crawford opened the WBA belt.