{"id":593465,"date":"2026-05-20T00:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:40:09","slug":"jaron-ennis-will-announce-himself-to-the-world-against-xander-zayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593465\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis will \u2018announce himself to the world against Xander Zayas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cI never expected Xander to take the fight, if I\u2019m honest,\u201d Hearn added. \u201cBecause he\u2019s a unified world champion. Boots is not a champion. I think he [Boots]\u2019s the best fighter in the division. But Xander\u2019s got some balls on him. And Xander\u2019s a competitor and Xander wants to be in the biggest fights. So, massive credit and respect to him. And when the Ortiz fight fell apart, Sean Palmer, who works with us, he was dealing with Top Rank and he said, \u2018Yeah, I think we&#8217;ve got a good chance of making the Xander fight.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI never expected Xander to take the fight, if I\u2019m honest,\u201d Hearn added. \u201cBecause he\u2019s a unified world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,31663,101,56,54,55,11725],"class_list":["post-593465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-jaron-ennis","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xander-zayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593465","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=593465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}