“If you let Boots and Fundora fight each other, you ain’t got to beat both of them. Now you just got to beat one,” Jones said on All The Smoke Fight.

“If you go beat Boots now, you still got to fight Fundora after. So you double working yourself, but you’re gonna get less money out of it in the long run.”

Jones believes Ortiz should instead wait to see the outcome of the scheduled junior middleweight clash between Errol Spence Jr. and Tim Tszyu later this month.

“The biggest fight right now for that division is Errol Spence if he beats Tszyu versus Virgil Ortiz in Dallas,” Jones said.

“You make way more money doing that first than you do going and fighting Boots. If you’re smart, you make that dream fight happen first. Then you go ahead and take the winner out of Boots and Fundora.”

Jones also stressed that his advice was about maximizing Ortiz’s career rather than avoiding a dangerous opponent.

“That’s not ducking,” Jones said. “That’s just taking fights a smart way.”

Ennis has already expressed interest in facing Fundora in a three-belt unification bout following his victory over Zayas, while Ortiz has continued to be linked with both champions as the junior middleweight division moves closer to a series of major fights.