{"id":281708,"date":"2025-11-13T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281708\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:16:10","slug":"xander-zayas-embraces-first-step-to-joining-puerto-rican-greats-hes-idolized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281708\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas embraces first step to joining Puerto Rican greats he\u2019s idolized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OregonianThu Nov 13, 2025, 8:38 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nThese are the 4 beltholders at 154 Ibs<\/p>\n<p>WBO: Xander Zayas<br \/>\nIBF: Bakhram Murtazaliev<br \/>\nWBA: Abass Baraou*<br \/>\nWBC: Sebastian Fundora**<\/p>\n<p>*Jaron Ennis is the WBA junior middleweight interim champions.<\/p>\n<p>**Vergil Ortiz Jr. is the WBC junior middleweight interim champion<\/p>\n<p>Fundora has ONE belt. Zayas has ONE. How exactly<\/p>\n<p>LAchargers373Thu Nov 13, 2025, 8:22 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>I like xayas. He\u2019s better than people give him credit for.<\/p>\n<p>CoreloneThu Nov 13, 2025, 7:36 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>THEY say Baraou has talent, so how come we never heard of him until he beat a whole 10 fight title holder. This is like a participation prize title fight. It might be good, but not all that guaranteed KO good. Zayas has some skill and the home town edge. Three points out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p>boxingitisThu Nov 13, 2025, 5:27 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Titles don&#8217;t matter. Ennis vs Ortiz is a much better and bigger fight than this UNIFICATION.<\/p>\n<p>Grandma LoverThu Nov 13, 2025, 3:04 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>This bum and bumdora holding the belts hostage is annoying af<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OregonianThu Nov 13, 2025, 8:38 AM UTC &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; These are the 4 beltholders at 154 Ibs WBO: Xander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[68014,64,63,802,85,14849,22580],"class_list":{"0":"post-281708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-abass-baraou","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-top-rank","14":"tag-xander-zayas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}