{"id":416551,"date":"2026-02-09T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416551\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:05:08","slug":"xander-zayas-and-emiliano-vargas-represent-boxing-at-super-bowl-lx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416551\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas and Emiliano Vargas represent boxing at Super Bowl LX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Boxing got a little bit of the spotlight at last night\u2019s Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show, unified super welterweight titleholder Xander Zayas and prospect Emiliano Vargas were seen with the gloves on, throwing some hands. No contact, of course. They have to be paid more for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While it\u2019s not likely to make either man a household name, it\u2019s still a pretty cool thing in general and obviously a huge moment for both young fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 23-year-old Zayas (23-0, 13 KO), who is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, just unified the WBO and WBA 154 lb titles with a win over Abass Baraou on January 31 in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 21-year-old Vargas (16-0, 13 KO) \u2014 the standout son of Fernando Vargas and a budding star at 140 lbs \u2014 is set to return on February 28 in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vargas also shared a behind the scenes photo of himself, Zayas, and Bad Bunny:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing got a little bit of the spotlight at last night\u2019s Super Bowl. During Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416551","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=416551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}