{"id":18514,"date":"2025-07-25T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/zayas-vs-garcia-perez-and-carrington-vs-heita-key-fight-statistics\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:06:58","slug":"zayas-vs-garcia-perez-and-carrington-vs-heita-key-fight-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/zayas-vs-garcia-perez-and-carrington-vs-heita-key-fight-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayas vs. Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez and Carrington vs. Heita: Key Fight Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xander Zayas Faces Jorge Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez for the World Title<\/h2>\n\nXander Zayas is preparing for the most important challenge of his career as he faces Jorge Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title. The fight will take place at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.\n\nZayas, with an undefeated record of 21-0 and 13 KOs, will seek his first world title. The pugilist, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and residing in Florida, has shown a meteoric rise since his debut in 2019. Currently, he is ranked number 8 in the junior middleweight rankings.\n\nHis opponent, Jorge Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez (33-4, 26 KOs) from Sinaloa, Mexico, comes into this fight with an eight-fight winning streak. P\u00e9rez has achieved notable victories over Charles Conwell and Kudratillo Abdukakhorov.\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nKey combat data:<\/em>\n\n\n
  • 16:<\/strong> Zayas’ age when signing with Top Rank, the youngest boxer to be signed by the company.<\/li>
  • 3:<\/strong> KO\/TKO victories for Zayas in his last five fights.<\/li>
  • 7:<\/strong> Times Zayas has fought at Madison Square Garden (Theater or Arena), including his three most recent fights.<\/li>
  • 11:<\/strong> National youth tournaments won by Zayas.<\/li>
  • 4:<\/strong> Ranking position among the best boxers under 25 years of age.<\/li>
  • 67.8:<\/strong> Average punches thrown per round by Zayas, higher than the junior middleweight division average (55.5).<\/li>
  • 30.9:<\/strong> Percentage of body shots connected by Zayas, higher than the division average (28.8%).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nKey data about Jorge Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez:<\/em>\n\n\n
    • -425:<\/strong> Odds for Zayas to win. Zayas is +340 to win by KO\/TKO\/DQ.<\/li>
    • 15.4:<\/strong> Average punches landed by Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez in his last three fights. Of these, 5.5 were body shots.<\/li>
    • 2:<\/strong> Knockout victories in the first round for Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez in his last five fights.<\/li>
    • 78.79:<\/strong> KO percentage of Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez in his professional career (26 KOs in 33 victories). Zayas’ KO percentage is 61.9 (13 KOs in 21 victories).<\/li>
    • 750:<\/strong> Punches thrown by Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez in his victory over Conwell.<\/li>
    • 27.8:<\/strong> Percentage of power punches landed against Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez by Conwell, Abdukakhorov and Angel Cruz.<\/li>
    • 13.1:<\/strong> Average power punches landed per round by Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez against Conwell, Abdukakhorov and Cruz.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n

      Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington Seeks Interim Title<\/h2>\n\nIn the co-main event, Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington will face Mateus Heita in a 12-round fight for the WBC interim featherweight title.\n\nCarrington, hailing from Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for producing boxing champions, arrives with an undefeated record of 15-0 and 9 KOs. He is currently ranked number 6 in the featherweight division.\n\nHis opponent, Mateus Heita of Namibia, also undefeated, will make his debut in the United States. Heita has won eight of his last ten fights before the limit.\n\n\n
      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Key facts of the fight:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
      • 6:<\/strong> Carrington’s KO victories in his last 10 fights.<\/li>
      • 0:<\/strong> 12-round fights for Carrington before this interim title fight.<\/li>
      • 9.2:<\/strong> Average punches landed per round by Carrington’s last five opponents, below the featherweight division average (16).<\/li>
      • 43.9:<\/strong> Power punch percentage landed by Carrington against his last five opponents. The average for the featherweight division is 35.1%.<\/li>
      • 6.1:<\/strong> Jabs landed by Carrington against his last five opponents. The division average is only 3.8.<\/li>
      • 5.2:<\/strong> Average rounds fought by Heita.<\/li>
      • 32:<\/strong> Number of letters in Heita’s full name: Mateus Natangwe Nghidimbwasha Heita.<\/li>
      • 11:<\/strong> Heita’s position in the WBC ranking, which sanctions his fight against Carrington.<\/li>
      • +1600:<\/strong> Odds for Heita to win the fight. Carrington is the favorite at -5000.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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        Xander Zayas Faces Jorge Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez for the World Title Xander Zayas is preparing for the most important challenge of his career as he faces Jorge Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title. The fight will take place at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Zayas, with an undefeated record of 21-0 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,6313,530,3056],"class_list":{"0":"post-18514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-jorge-garcia-perez","10":"tag-title-fight","11":"tag-xander-zayas"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}