{"id":491785,"date":"2026-03-24T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:54:11","slug":"boxings-youngest-unified-world-champion-closing-in-on-jaron-ennis-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491785\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing’s youngest unified world champion closing in on Jaron Ennis fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaron Ennis<\/a> could soon find himself involved in a massive fight after all.<\/p>\n

For the past few months, Ennis looked to be on the verge of agreeing a deal to take on fellow unbeaten star Vergil Ortiz in a huge 154lb battle, but after Ortiz found himself at the centre of a dispute with his promoter Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>, the bout unfortunately fell through.<\/p>\n

It left fans wondering whether \u2018Boots\u2019 and his promoter Matchroom would be able to secure a clash with the same level of magnitude as a match-up against Ortiz, and it appears that one could be on the brink of being confirmed.<\/p>\n

The recent announcement that Top Rank had signed a deal with streaming platform DAZN is a big factor, after Chris Mannix reported<\/a> that Top Rank fighter Xander Zayas is in advanced talks for a showdown against Ennis, with the two teams hopeful of making a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Top Rank deal opens things up for a lot of cross-promotional fights, and we may get a very big one in the next couple of months.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last week I\u2019ve reported that there were preliminary discussions between the teams of Xander Zayas and Jaron Ennis for a title fight between those two 154-pounders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose conversations have advanced significantly over the last week, and I\u2019m told both sides are very optimistic that they can get a deal done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zayas is the current youngest unified male world champion in boxing, having added the WBA light middleweight title to his WBO strap when he defeated Abass Baraou back in January.<\/a><\/p>\n

A fight against Ennis would see two unbeaten stars go head-to-head and give \u2018Boots\u2019 the chance to be a two-weight world champion, having already been a unified world champion at welterweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis could soon find himself involved in a massive fight after all. For the past few months,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491785","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=491785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}