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Preaching patience

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APRIL 10

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JARON “BOOTS” ENNIS’ flamboyant style is a hybrid, grounded in bedrock fundamentals but expressed in a seemingly spontaneous manner. It was far too much for the normally durable Sergey “Samurai” Lipinets to handle during their scheduled 12-round welterweight bout at the Mohegan Sun Casino. The California-based Kazakh was knocked out at the 2-11 mark of the sixth round, the victim of a continual beating and a right-left coup de grâce that left him helpless on his back.

Lipinets’ only previous loss was to Mikey Garcia by unanimous decision in March 2018, but he was at a considerable physical disadvantage against

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