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While Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford, longtime elite welterweight champions in the discussion as boxing’s pound-for-pound best, are set to fight for the undisputed title in the year’s most important fight on July 29, there is a man lurking behind them.

His name is Jaron “Boots” Ennis and he once again put them and every other welterweight of consequence on notice that he is the real deal.

Ennis turned in a brilliant performance in an entertaining but utterly one-sided thrashing of Roiman Villa, whom he knocked out in the 10th round to retain the IBF interim title for the first time in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Showtime on Saturday night at the Adrian Phillips Ballroom at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the Philadelphia native was the big crowd favorite.

Ennis, with the tremendous speed advantage, good defense, two-fisted power and the ability to fight inside or outside and to easily switch between right-handed and southpaw stances, imposed himself from the start on Villa, who had a durable chin, a huge heart and no chance.