Xander Zayas and Jorge Garcia will clash for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title Saturday at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n
Zayas (21-0, 13 KOs), ESPN’s eighth-ranked junior middleweight, looks to keep his unblemished record intact in his first bout since February. The 22-year-old San Juan, Puerto Rico, native stopped a then-unbeaten Slawa Spomer in the ninth round in the same venue.<\/p>\n
The upset-minded Garcia (33-4, 26 KOs) will mark Zayas’ first shot at a world championship. Garcia enters the showdown on an eight-fight winning streak. The 28-year-old’s last defeat came in a split decision against Etoundi Michel William in January 2023.<\/p>\n
In the co-feature, Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs) and Mateus Heita (14-0, 9 KOs) will face off in a 12-round matchup of unbeatens for the WBC interim featherweight title.<\/p>\n
Also on the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN: Zayas vs. Garcia fight card:<\/p>\n
Rising junior welterweight Emiliano Vargas (14-0, 12 KOs), the youngest son of former world champion Fernando Vargas, takes on Alexander Espinoza (20-3-1, 9 KOs) in a bout scheduled for eight rounds.<\/p>\n
Welterweights Rohan Polanco (16-0, 10 KOs) and Quinton Randall (15-2-1, 3 KOs) square up for 10 rounds.<\/p>\n
Yan Carlos Santana-Guerrero (14-0, 12 KOs) faces Aaron Alameda (30-2, 17 KOs) in a 10-round pairing of featherweights.<\/p>\n
Steven Navarro (6-0, 5 KOs) and Cristopher Rios (11-2, 7 KOs) meet in an eight-round tussle of junior bantamweights.<\/p>\n
Junior bantamweights Juanma Lopez De Jesus (2-0, 1 KO) and Jorge Gonzalez-Sanchez (5-2, 4 KOs) duel for four rounds.<\/p>\n
Julius Ballo makes his professional debut against Brandan Ayala (2-0, 1 KO) in a four-round test between featherweights.<\/p>\n
Where can I watch the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN: Zayas vs. Garcia fight card?<\/p>\n
Coverage begins Saturday, July 26, with prelims at 5:10 p.m. ET on ESPN+<\/a> and Disney+<\/a>. The main card is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN+ and Disney+.<\/p>\n Additional prefight coverage:<\/p>\n Thursday, July 24<\/p>\n Top Rank Boxing: Zayas vs. Garcia news conference — 2 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and Disney+<\/p>\n Friday, July 25<\/p>\n Top Rank Boxing: Zayas vs. Garcia weigh-in — 1 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and Disney+<\/p>\n Fans can catch all the action in the Top Rank Boxing streaming hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n How can fans access more boxing content from ESPN?<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN boxing hub page<\/a> for the latest news<\/a>, features<\/a>, schedules<\/a>, rankings<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas and Jorge Garcia will clash for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title Saturday at The Theater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-19158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}