{"id":766173,"date":"2026-06-28T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:34:08","slug":"live-blog-xander-zayas-vs-jaron-boots-ennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766173\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BLOG: Xander Zayas vs. Jaron &#8216;Boots&#8217; Ennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 A matchup of two champions performing in their primes can seem too infrequent in boxing, but it happens Saturday night at Barclays Center as unified 154-pound champion Xander Zayas defends his WBO and WBA belts versus unbeaten former unified welterweight titlist Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis.<br \/>BoxingScene will provide live round-by-round coverage here with writers Lance Pugmire and Tris Dixon near ringside in Brooklyn.<br \/>Philadelphia\u2019s Ennis, 35-0 (31 KOs), won his 154-pound debut by first-round knockout and Puerto Rico\u2019s Zayas, 23, has claimed the WBO and WBA straps in his past two bouts.<br \/>Ennis, 28, is a -500 betting favorite because of his comprehensive skillset, but Zayas, 23-0 (12 KOs), boasts an effective jab and footwork, seeking to draw the smaller Ennis into a toe-to-toe battle that can provide openings to land effective blows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 A matchup of two champions performing in their primes can seem too infrequent in boxing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,19730,82,17571],"class_list":["post-766173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jaron-ennis","tag-sports","tag-xander-zayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766173","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=766173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}