Two of the sport’s biggest hypotheticals got a straight answer on Mill City Boxing this week, and Bernie Tha Boxer did not hedge on either.
First, 154. With Sebastian Fundora holding the WBC belt and the division waiting for somebody to run it, Bernie’s pick for undisputed was Jaron “Boots” Ennis — full stop. His reasoning is the timing argument that follows Fundora everywhere: the 6-foot-6 champion’s chin and his long frame present a puzzle, but Boots, in Bernie’s telling, is simply the best fighter at the weight — the speed, the switch-hitting, the finishing — and class tells over twelve rounds. It is worth noting the contrast with what Keith Thurman said on this same channel days ago: no king at 154 until the men actually fight. Bernie is ready to crown one early.
Video credit: Mill City Boxing.
Second, the rematch talk that will not die. Bernie weighed in on Canelo Alvarez wanting Terence Crawford again — a desire that has now been voiced from both directions, with Crawford’s own trainer BoMac saying this week that Bud is ready and Canelo has to pay up. Bernie’s posture matched the obvious question hanging over the whole thing: what, exactly, changes in a second fight? The first meeting was not a controversy. It was a verdict. Canelo wanting the fight is pride doing what pride does — champions who lose clearly almost always ask to run it back — but wanting it and solving Crawford are different projects.
That is the honest frame for both halves of this video. Ennis over Fundora is a pick about the future: the most gifted fighter in the division finally collecting the belts his talent keeps promising. Canelo–Crawford 2 is an argument about the past: whether money and legacy can justify re-asking a question that already got answered in full.
One of those fights crowns a new era. The other reopens a closed one. This site will happily cover both — but only one of them needs to happen.
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