{"id":668577,"date":"2026-07-01T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:50:08","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-sums-up-jaron-ennis-performance-against-zayas-as-he-calls-for-vergil-ortiz-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668577\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya sums up Jaron Ennis’ performance against Zayas as he calls for Vergil Ortiz fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> has revealed exactly what he made of Jaron Ennis<\/a>\u2018 performance against Xander Zayas on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ennis was successful in his quest to become a two-division world champion as he earned a seventh round stoppage win over Zayas at the Barclays Center in New York.<\/a><\/p>\n

With the WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles now in his possession, it appears that \u2018Boots\u2019 will either look to go in search of the other belts at 154lbs, or turn his attention to a long-awaited showdown with fellow unbeaten star Vergil Ortiz.<\/p>\n

Ortiz is promoted by De La Hoya\u2019s Golden Boy Promotions, but there have been legal issues in recent months that contributed to the clash between \u2018Boots\u2019 and Ortiz never coming to fruition.<\/p>\n

It has been reported recently that those issues could be on the brink of getting resolved, with Ortiz said to be nearing a return to the ring.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, De La Hoya has posted on social media<\/a> praising Ennis for the performance against Zayas, before stating his desire to make \u2018the biggest fight in boxing\u2019 against Ortiz.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoots Ennis, what a great fight, you are a machine. Zayas a little inexperienced, but you will be back, you\u2019re a great fighter. Let\u2019s make the biggest fight in boxing today. Vergil Ortiz, Boots Ennis, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ortiz hasn\u2019t fought since defeating Erickson Lubin inside two rounds back in November, so may choose to have a fight in the interim before heading into a clash with Ennis, but it would certainly be a must-see bout if and when the 154lb showdown takes place.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya has revealed exactly what he made of Jaron Ennis\u2018 performance against Xander Zayas on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668577","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=668577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}