{"id":767980,"date":"2026-06-29T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:00:17","slug":"jaron-ennis-has-message-for-vergil-ortiz-after-punishing-xander-zayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767980\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis has message for Vergil Ortiz after punishing Xander Zayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">With the flexibility to take his new WBO and WBA junior-middleweight belts and either meet the IBF champion Josh Kelly, who\u2019s promoted by Ennis\u2019 promoter Eddie Hearn, or accept an early Sunday morning request from Premier Boxing Champions to discuss a unification with WBC champion Sebastian Fundora, Ennis no longer needs Ortiz like he did when he boarded a flight to Texas to call him out in November. Soon after that, Ortiz and De La Hoya became embroiled in a contract dispute that has stalled the fighter\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the flexibility to take his new WBO and WBA junior-middleweight belts and either meet the IBF champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,22709,85,73250,22580],"class_list":["post-767980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-jaron-ennis","tag-sports","tag-vergil-ortiz","tag-xander-zayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767980","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=767980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}