{"id":13106,"date":"2025-04-13T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jaron-ennis-beats-eimantas-stanionis-to-unify-ibf-wba-welterweight-titles\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:15:30","slug":"jaron-ennis-beats-eimantas-stanionis-to-unify-ibf-wba-welterweight-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jaron-ennis-beats-eimantas-stanionis-to-unify-ibf-wba-welterweight-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis beats Eimantas Stanionis to unify IBF &#038; WBA welterweight titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">American welterweight Jaron Ennis unified the IBF and WBA world titles with a sixth-round technical knockout of Lithuania&#8217;s Eimantas Stanionis in Atlantic City. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ennis, 27, won the IBF title in November 2023 and saw off WBA champion Stanionis to maintain his unbeaten record with a 34th victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stanionis, 30, had held the WBA welterweight crown since 2022 and won all his previous 15 professional bouts, but failed to come out for the seventh round after suffering a series of savage body shots in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What&#8217;s crazy is that I had a dream I was going to stop him just like this, and it came true,&#8221; said Ennis after completing the third defence of his IBF title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy48yrz19zjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American welterweight Jaron Ennis unified the IBF and WBA world titles with a sixth-round technical knockout of Lithuania&#8217;s Eimantas Stanionis in Atlantic City. Ennis, 27, won the IBF title in November 2023 and saw off WBA champion Stanionis to maintain his unbeaten record with a 34th victory. Stanionis, 30, had held the WBA welterweight crown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13108,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions\/13108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}