Jaron Ennis prepares for title fight against Xander Zayas in Atlantic City

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ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY - APRIL 11: Jaron Ennis weighs in for his IBF, WBA and Ring Magazine welterweight championship fight against Eimantas Stanionis at the Circus Maximus at Caesars Atlantic City on April 11, 2025 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Getty Images) | Getty Images Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis sat down for a pre-fight interview with Chris Mannix and Sergio Mora on behalf of DAZN to talk about tomorrow’s title shot at unified champion Xander Zayas. During the interview Boots would be asked about his preparations for this fight and his assessment of his opponent. Here are some final excerpts from the fighter between the pair settle it inside the ring. Boots on preparing a game plan for Xander Zayas instead of Vergil Ortiz “They two different fighters. You know what you’re getting out of Vergil, he doing to come forward, bring the pressure. But with Xander, he a different style. He can box, he’ll come forward, he’ll move, he’ll do a little bit of everything. So for this camp we had a little bit of everything in our camp.” On how he expects Zayas to fight “I don’t care how he come. Whatever he do, it don’t matter. We ready all the way around the board, whether he come forward, whether he try to box, he stay there. We’re ready for every aspect of whatever he got coming…It’s going to be goodnight either way.” On the best sparring he had in this camp “I feel like I had all great work. I had some up-and-coming guys, sharp work. I sparred a lot of people for this fight…I sparred Boo Boo Andrade. It’s so many people I’m going to miss a lot of people [that I worked with during this camp].” On Zayas believing he has the superior footwork “I think he’s delusional. I feel like leading up to this fight, every time I hear him talk he just be talking to say anything just because he in front of a camera. I feel like he don’t know what to say and he just excited and just say anything.”