By Thomas Gerbasi - He hasn’t made it to the Top Ten yet, but some of us are of the opinion that after just 11 pro fights, Jared Anderson is a heavyweight contender. Regardless of that opinion, the 22-year-old from Ohio is BoxingScene’s Prospect of t...
Unbeaten prospect Xander Zayas will celebrate Christmas surrounded by his family after a busy 2021. It will be the first time in two years that the young boxer will taste typical Puerto Rican dishes during a Christmas Eve dinner prepared by his paren...
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NEW YORK – Xander Zayas made quick work of Alessio Mastronunzio on Saturday night. The hard-hitting, rising junior middleweight prospect pummeled the Italian veteran for almost an entire round before referee Danny Schiavone finally called a halt to a...
Vasiliy Lomachenko and Richard Commey couldn’t contain their smiles for long Friday afternoon once they made weight. The former lightweight champions clearly respect one another, thus they simply laughed and shook hands, instead of displaying any ani...
by Thomas Gerbasi - Despite his status as one of the top prospects in boxing, sometimes you get a reminder of how young Xander Zayas is, and it’s a jolt. Case in point, as the 19-year-old Zayas prepares for his Madison Square Garden debut this Saturd...
Keyshawn Davis, the lightweight star who earned a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, has a golden chance to shine on one of boxing’s biggest platforms. Davis (3-0, 2 KOs), in his first fight since signing a long-term deal with Top Rank, will face Me...
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Three-weight kingpin Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko, the Ukrainian virtuoso who saves his best for the New York City spotlight, hopes his next oversized challenge is not a bridge too far. Lomachenko returns to Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Dec. 11 fo...
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Puerto Rican prospect Xander Zayas will take a break for a few days, before returning to the gym on the way to his sixth fight of 2021. Zayas will see action on December 11, as part of the undercard to the lightweight fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The apprenticeship is over for Xander Zayas. With a co-main event slot against Dan Karpency on Saturday’s Jamel Herring-Shakur Stevenson card at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, the 19-year-old has reached the point where there’s no g...
Xander Zayas (10-0, 7 KOs), the 19-year-old Puerto Rican-born prodigy, will fight Dan Karpency in a six-round junior middleweight bout Saturday, Oct. 23 at State Farm Arena. Zayas-Karpency will serve as the co-feature to the “Throwdown in A-Town” mai...
Xander Zayas impressively handled an opponent Friday night who had only lost once before he encountered the highly touted prospect. Jose Luiz Sanchez occasionally exploited Zayas’ defensive flaws, but the hard-hitting, unbeaten Puerto Rican fighter m...
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