{"id":370784,"date":"2026-01-15T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:52:08","slug":"xander-zayas-ready-for-big-opportunity-against-warrior-abass-baraou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370784\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas ready for big opportunity against \u2018warrior\u2019 Abass Baraou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Following a training session at Centeno&#8217;s Sweatbox Boxing Gym, where Zayas trains with coach Javiel Centeno, Zayas said: \u201cThis is the best opportunity of my career, not just because of what\u2019s at stake, but because I\u2019m coming back home in front of my people. It\u2019s been five years, and I\u2019ve wanted to return ever since, but I knew I had to wait for the right moment. Now it\u2019s here on January 31, when I return as a world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a training session at Centeno&#8217;s Sweatbox Boxing Gym, where Zayas trains with coach Javiel Centeno, Zayas said:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[44913,2560,141488,141489,101,56,54,55,11725],"class_list":{"0":"post-370784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-abass-baraou","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxingscene-top-rank","11":"tag-puerto-rican-boxing","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-xander-zayas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370784","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=370784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}