Overview
- Matchroom and Top Rank announced Monday that unified WBA/WBO champion Xander Zayas will defend against unbeaten Jaron “Boots” Ennis on June 27 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
- The fight will air as a DAZN pay-per-view, with Matchroom presenting in association with Top Rank under the platform’s expanded partnership.
- Zayas, 23, won the WBO title in July 2025 and added the WBA belt in January, while Ennis, 28, moved up from welterweight last October and scored a first-round stoppage of Uisma Lima.
- Talks for Ennis to meet Vergil Ortiz Jr. collapsed after a Nevada court barred Ortiz from signing new agreements during his dispute with Golden Boy, which redirected Ennis toward Zayas.
- The matchup pits a rising unified champion against a former welterweight titleholder seeking a second-division crown and signals that DAZN’s promoter alignment could make more big fights easier to finalize.