{"id":252558,"date":"2025-11-09T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252558\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:05:12","slug":"xander-zayas-vs-abass-baraou-unification-planned-for-january-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252558\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas vs Abass Baraou unification planned for January 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/zayas-baraou-agree-to-154-pound-title-unification-fight-jan-31-in-san-juan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Coppinger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/xander-zayas-abass-baraou-unification-bout-eyed-for-january-31-in-san-juan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Donovan<\/a> both report that WBO super welterweight champion Xander Zayas and WBA titlist Abass Baraou have agreed to meet in a January 31st unification bout in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per Donovan, the show will be announced on-site next week on the 12th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 23-year-old Zayas (22-0, 13 KO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/110404\/xander-zayas-reportedly-eyeing-abass-baraou-unification\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pushed for this matchup almost immediately<\/a> after defeating Jorge Garcia Perez for the vacant title left behind by Sebastian Fundora, reportedly turning down a softer touch in Giovanni Santillan to do so. It\u2019s an enormously commendable show of chutzpah; Baraou (17-1, 9 KO) was the definition of high-risk, low-reward before overpowering prospect Yoenis Tellez for a belt in August and even now lacks anywhere near the notoriety of his fellow elite at 154.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll let you know once we\u2019ve got more details on the broadcast or the undercard; barring some seriously quick negotiating on Bob Arum\u2019s part, seems like this will end up on Top Rank Classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Coppinger and Jake Donovan both report that WBO super welterweight champion Xander Zayas and WBA titlist Abass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-252558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}