Zayas vs. Pérez: Wbo Gold on the Line, on July 26

Xander Zayas says he plans to defeat Jorge Garcia Pérez to capture the vacancy of Wbo Junior Middleweight on Saturday, and then try to make an immediate struggle for unification against the 154 -pound champion of WBC, Sebastian Fundora. The way Zayas (21-0, 13 kos) speaks, is only a formality that will defeat Perez number 2 (33-4, 26 kos) to capture the WBO Vacant title.

Pre -view of Zayas vs. Perez

Zayas-Pérez will head to Madison Square Garden Theater in New York on July 26. The event will be displayed live on ESPN and ESPN+ at 21:00 ET / 18:00 PT PT for the main card. The prelims begin at 5:10 et.

“I am happy at 22. I’m struggling for a world title. It’s another fight and I have to take care of business,” said Xander Zayas to Sean Zittel About his fight against Jorge Garcia Pérez on Saturday. “It’s exciting to hear people say they want to be the next boy from Puerto Rico, and that’s what I want to do.”

It would have been better if Zayas had overcome some quality fighters to obtain his number 1 rankings, because it only seems to be maneuvering in his slicest place instead of putting him against the level A fighters to win his position. Judge by yourself. These are the last three of Xander’s opponents:

– Slawa Spomer
– Damian Sosa
– Patrick Teixeira

It is not by chance that the first rank coincided with Zayas against these fighters instead of Vergil Ortiz JR, Israil Madrimov, Serhii Bohachuk or Yoenis Tellez.

“I want to bring glory to my island but I want to take glory to Xander Zayas. I don’t want to bring glory like the next Tito or as the next Cotto. I just want to be me,” said Zayas.

There is no way that Xander can become the next Miguel Cotto, Felix Trinitat or Wilfredo Benítez for Puerto Rico, because he lacks power and has a lot of rabbit in him. Zayas fights more like a cross between Devin Haney and Shakur Stevenson. Nor is it a fulfillment.

The reason for Zayas’s popularity has not increased is that his style is not entertaining. It’s a bigger version of Haney. The first rank has been promoting Zayas to fans, hoping to turn it into a star, but it has been a failure. It lacks this “factor” looking for fans.

Unified dreams of Zayas

“When I become a world champion, we can still make the struggle come true in the future,” Zayas said about Sebastian Fundora. “I don’t think it’s duck. He made a business decision.”

It was an obvious option for Fundora. Go in the direction of a good salary in a resale with Tszyu in a struggle that fans wanted to see, instead of fighting a lesser -known defensive fighter for small money in Zayas. If Puerto Rican’s chandper, the United States, would have made sense for him to fight against him. It takes nothing to the table.