WBA interim super welterweight champion Jaron "Boots" Ennis is ready to give boxing fans what they truly want: An all-American mega-fight between himself and Vergil Ortiz Jr. 

"I can't wait. They're going to see," Ennis told Uncrowned's "The Ariel Helwani Show."

"It's not personal, but I see all the talking they've been doing, and like I said, let him get through his fight and we'll take it from there."

Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs) has twice before turned down fights with Ortiz (23-0, 21 KOs) in the past, which has led some to question his desire for the matchup. Now, however, "Boots" said he's put pen to paper for a fight against Ortiz next. He hopes to be in attendance for Ortiz's defense of the WBC interim super welterweight title against Erickson Lubin on Nov. 8 and potentially face off with Ortiz afterward. 

Ortiz has yet to agree to the bout with Ennis, although his promoter, Golden Boy's Oscar De La Hoya, confirmed to Uncrowned that Ennis vs. Ortiz is the matchup he hopes to make next as well.

"That's what I heard as well," Ennis said of Ortiz revisiting talks after the Lubin fight. "That's understandable though, you've got to stay on task on what's in front of you."

"I did [sign to fight Ortiz before I fought Uisma Lima on Oct. 11], but I still was locked in on Lima. Even when guys were asking me about the Ortiz situation, I wouldn't even say nothing about it."

Ennis vs. Ortiz would see two of the top undefeated, rising stars in boxing clash, and without a doubt would be one of the sport's marquee matchups of 2026 — and importantly, on U.S. soil. At a time when many of the major fights in the sport are heading to Saudi Arabia, and there is a noticeable lack of big fights on the U.S. boxing schedule due to the absence of regular shows from Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions, the importance of Ennis vs. Ortiz taking place in the U.S. cannot be understated.

Ennis previously hoped to become the undisputed champion at welterweight, but his run was ended by a mixture of reluctance from champions to share the ring with him and his own inability to safely make the 147-pound limit. In his final fight in the division, Ennis dominated and stopped Eimantas Stanionis — who was then No. 2 in the division behind Ennis — to unify the WBA, IBF and Ring Magazine titles. 

Although Ennis couldn't achieve his goal of being undisputed at welterweight, he hopes the stars will align for him to not only conquer the 154-pound weight class one belt at a time, but also silence those who have been critical of his opposition and achievements to date.

"I can't wait. I'm really about to show y'all," he said. "I'm about to run through these guys one by one — 154 [pounds] is really mine. I'm going to shut everybody up. I can't wait. I hear the little chatters and all the little talks … They're questioning me. It's cool. It's not doing nothing but adding fuel to the fire. It's going to make it worse each and every time for whoever steps in the ring with me."

"[Roy Jones Jr.] said, 'They say I ain't fight nobody [but] I just make them look like nobody. … I fought Stanionis, and leading up to that fight, everybody was like, 'I don't know about this fight, Stanionis is going to do this, Stanionis is going to do that. [He's] too tough, [he's] this, [he's] that.' Then, when I beat him and I made it look easy, everybody was like, 'He was supposed to do that.'

"I got used to it. Now I don't really care. I'm just here to shut everybody up, run through the division and do what's best for me, my team and my family."

One of the biggest news stories in the boxing world in recent months has been the arrival of TKO — the parent company of UFC, WWE, and now Zuffa Boxing. Dana White's Zuffa Boxing, which has secured a five-year media rights deal with Paramount, will formally launch into the sport in January, and it hopes to do so with the passing of the controversial Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act. 

Should the act — which the California State Athletic Commission unanimously voted to support this past week — come into law, it would allow TKO's boxing efforts to take place in a league-type format. TKO would be able to run a Unified Boxing Organization (UBO), where it could create its own belt and have a separate boxing system, eliminating the need to deal with sanctioning bodies or other promoters. Crucially, it'd also allow TKO to retain significant control over fighters, similar to what it has in the UFC.

"You've got to keep the [WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO] belts, for sure," Ennis said of TKO's plans to create a Zuffa belt. "It's definitely history. Without the belts, without those certain belts, you can't really say you have legacy. So I feel like you've got to keep the belts.

"At first, when I was coming up, I'm like, 'There should only be one or two belts.' But now, like actually being in it, it's actually better [to have four major belts] because then you've got something to look forward to or something to say. 'I beat this, that champion, that champion, [and] that champion all back-to-back.' If you fight one person and just beat them for the belt and that's it, it's kind of corny. It makes it less fun. I feel like it's more fun when you've got multiple champions.'"

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White has been adamant about not working with the traditional boxing promoters when he enters the sport, which could close the door to key matchups fight fans want to see if Zuffa were to build or sign world-level talent. Ennis isn't a fan of that idea either.

"In UFC, you could be a champion in the UFC, but you can't fight the champion in Bellator — I don't like that," he said.

"[I couldn't fight Vergil Ortiz without co-promoting], but that's the fight that everybody wants to see. So I don't like that. They should definitely do the co-promotion thing."

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