Ennis is coming off an impressive seventh-round stoppage win against Xander Zayas last month to pick up the WBA and WBO 154-pound titles.

Instead of moving forward with the on-again, off-again fight against Ortiz, who's still in a legal dispute with Golden Boy Promotions, Ennis is instead eyeing encounters against the remaining titlists in the division, Sebastian Fundora (WBC) and Josh Kelly (IBF).

"I did my part [for the Ortiz fight]. I was training for that fight since January, and it kept moving. It is what it is," Ennis said on Monday's episode of "Inside The Ring."

"Right now, my task is belts. I'm the man of the division. I do what I want. My goal is to be undisputed, and that's what I am going to do. We are going to bring on these next champions next … The next best thing is Fundora and Kelly. Everybody wants to see Fundora and me because he's a tall task."

Ennis (36-0, 32 KOs) was then asked who'd be the more complicated clash, the 6-foot-5“ Towering Inferno" or the volume power-punching Ortiz.

"I can't really say [who's tougher]. It doesn't matter to me," Ennis said. "I think that Zayas got a little more game to him than Vergil. You know what you get from Vergil. He's going to try to walk you down. You can't just run through me. I have heat for you. People are going to say it's a tailor-made fight for me. Fighting a guy like Fundora, they'll accept it more … The more I step up, the harder and bigger the fight is, the easier it's going to get for me."

Ennis must wait to see how Fundora (24-1-1, 16 KOs) and Kelly (18-1-1, 9 KOs) do in their upcoming matchups before actually moving forward with a title unification clash against either opponent.

Kelly aims to defend his title for the first time since beating Bakhram Murtazaliev on July 25 against Caoimhin Agyarko in Saudi Arabia, while Fundora is moving forward with his mandatory challenger Ermal Hadribeaj either in September or October.

In the meantime, Ennis, a 29-year-old Philadelphia native, has attracted observers after dropping Zayas three times in a mostly one-sided matchup. The victory catapulted Ennis to The Ring's pound-for-pound list at No. 9, and he's also rated as the No. 1 junior middleweight.

"Every fight, even as it gets bigger and bigger, it's just regular for me," he said. "It's like going to the gym. It's nothing new to me. I've been in these places before. I just do me, and be me.

"The better the fighter is, the better that I am going to be and the sharper I am going to be. I am here to collect those belts and be undisputed at 154 pounds. I will be undisputed."