{"id":571075,"date":"2026-03-30T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:41:10","slug":"xander-zayas-vs-boots-ennis-fight-official-date-location-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571075\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas vs Boots Ennis: Fight official; date, location set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s official: Xander Zayas will defend his WBA and WBO super welterweight titles against Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Top Rank\u2019s Zayas (23-0, 13 KO) and Matchroom\u2019s Ennis (35-0, 31 KO) will headline a DAZN-streamed card on June 27 from Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center, in what is a truly fantastic matchup of young boxing stars who are both still on the rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zayas, 23, won the then-vacant WBO title last July, beating Jorge Garcia, and unified with the WBA belt on January 31, taking it from Abass Baraou in a very good, competitive fight in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ennis, 28, has been trying to get a more marquee-level matchup for a while now. He held the IBF title at welterweight and moved up in weight last October, thrashing Uisma Lima inside of two minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Philadelphia\u2019s \u201cBoots\u201d had been linked to a fight with Vergil Ortiz Jr, which was definitely wanted by boxing fans, but Ortiz and Golden Boy Promotions are in the middle of a pretty serious dispute, sidelining Vergil for the time being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Instead, Ennis and Matchroom turned their attention to Top Rank, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/113765\/top-rank-inks-multi-year-deal-with-dazn-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just joined the squad of promoters working with DAZN<\/a>, and are making an immediate and highly-encouraging, high-stakes clash with one of their top young stars facing a standout from a rival promoter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This one\u2019s a credit to all involved, the fighters and promoters, two unbeaten, young fighters taking the risk in the biggest fight either can make at the moment, and it\u2019s absolutely one to look forward to on the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Xander Zayas will defend his WBA and WBO super welterweight titles against Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis. Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-571075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571075","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=571075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}