{"id":653344,"date":"2026-06-23T03:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:56:07","slug":"xander-zayas-tells-ariel-helwani-that-jaron-ennis-record-is-padded-and-he-ducked-the-big-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653344\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Zayas tells Ariel Helwani that Jaron Ennis\u2019 record is &#8216;padded,&#8217; and he &#8216;ducked the big fights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Unified WBO and WBA world junior middleweight champion Xander Zayas of Puerto Rico says that despite the fact his opponent this weekend, Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis, is a former world champion gunning for titles in a second weight class, Philadelphia\u2019s Ennis has ducked big fights repeatedly and his record has a lot of \u201cpadding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Zayas, 23-0 (13 KOs), will defend his two belts against Ennis, 35-0 (31 KOs), in the main event this Saturday, June 27, live on DAZN PPV from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unified WBO and WBA world junior middleweight champion Xander Zayas of Puerto Rico says that despite the fact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[174776,2560,6102,10078,31663,101,56,54,55,11725],"class_list":["post-653344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ariel-helwani","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\/653344","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=653344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}