Puerto Rican boxer Xander Zayas will have his first opportunity to fight for a world title. He will face Mexican Jorge Garcia for the vacant WBO super welterweight championship on July 26 in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we signed Xander at 16, he was a teenager with all the potential in the world. Now he is an accomplished young contender with a tremendous opportunity to win his first world title.<\/p>Bob Arum, Top Rank Chairman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nZayas, 22, will seek his first world title against Garcia.\n\n\n
This is a dream I’ve worked hard for my whole life. I have a good opponent in Jorge Garcia, a Mexican hungry to become a world champion. But I am ready to raise the Puerto Rican flag high with the victory and become a world champion at 22 years old.<\/p>Xander Zayas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGarc\u00eda comes from surprising the previously undefeated Charles Conwell in April.\n\n\n
Many people thought I wasn’t going to win my last fight, but I achieved a surprising victory. Although I was the underdog, I surprised the world. This fight will be no different. Becoming a world champion is my dream, and I’m ready to make it a reality on July 26th with a dominant victory over Xander Zayas. Mexico will have a new champion this summer.<\/p>Jorge Garc\u00eda<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Featherweight undefeated Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington and rising super lightweight star Emiliano Vargas will also participate on the card.<\/p>\n\n\nCarrington will face Namibian Mateus Heita for the WBC interim featherweight title in the co-main event.\n\nVargas, the youngest son of former world champion Fernando Vargas, will seek to overcome the challenge of Ecuadorian Alexander Espinoza in the televised start.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Xander Zayas Goes for the World Title in New York Puerto Rican boxer Xander Zayas will have his first opportunity to fight for a world title. He will face Mexican Jorge Garcia for the vacant WBO super welterweight championship on July 26 in New York. When we signed Xander at 16, he was a teenager […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,3055,2193,3056],"class_list":{"0":"post-8203","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","10":"tag-world-title","11":"tag-xander-zayas"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","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=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}