{"id":75456,"date":"2026-06-28T00:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/jaron-ennis-survives-scare-to-stop-xander-zayas-and-unify-154lb-titles-in-instant-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:59:34","slug":"jaron-ennis-survives-scare-to-stop-xander-zayas-and-unify-154lb-titles-in-instant-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/jaron-ennis-survives-scare-to-stop-xander-zayas-and-unify-154lb-titles-in-instant-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis survives scare to stop Xander Zayas and unify 154lb titles in instant classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Ennis stops Zayas in seventh to unify 154lb titles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Boots survives toughest test to stay unbeaten<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Zayas suffers first defeat after dramatic contest<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis survived the toughest fight of his professional career before stopping Xander Zayas in the seventh round on Saturday night to unify the WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles at Barclays Center.<\/p>\n<p>The previously unbeaten Ennis knocked Zayas down three times and weathered a furious third-round rally before referee halted the bout at 1:49 of the seventh round, giving the Philadelphia native the signature victory that had eluded him despite years of being regarded as one of boxing\u2019s brightest talents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/28\/jaron-ennis-xander-zayas-fight-boxing-result\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ennis stops Zayas in seventh to unify 154lb titles Boots survives toughest test to stay unbeaten Zayas suffers first defeat after dramatic contest Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis survived the toughest fight of his professional career before stopping Xander Zayas in the seventh round on Saturday night to unify the WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles at Barclays &#8230; <a title=\"Jaron Ennis survives scare to stop Xander Zayas and unify 154lb titles in instant classic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/jaron-ennis-survives-scare-to-stop-xander-zayas-and-unify-154lb-titles-in-instant-classic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jaron Ennis survives scare to stop Xander Zayas and unify 154lb titles in instant classic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}