Xander Zayas

Vasiliy Lomachenko v Richard Commey. Action from the lightweight bout at Madison Square Garden in New York

Puerto Rican star Xander Zayas, boxing’s youngest male world champion, kicks off 2026 with a historic home soil event. The 23-year-old WBO junior middleweight world champion faces WBA king Abass Baraou in a title unification fight at Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

WBO world champion Denys Berinchyk makes the first defense of his title against the undefeated fighting pride of Norfolk, Virginia, Keyshawn Davis, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

Xander Zayas defends his WBO and WBA World Junior Middleweight titles against Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Robeisy Ramirez defends his WBO Featherweight title for the second time against undefeated Mexican Rafael Espinoza at the Charles F. Dodge City Center in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

Undefeated junior welterweight king Josh Taylor defends his WBO and Ring Magazine titles against former lightweight kingpin Teofimo Lopez at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

The World Boxing Organisation World Feather Champion Emanuel Navarrete will defend his title against Christopher Diaz. Navarrete won the title in 2020 when he gained weight and change the division. His opponent was Ruben Villa. Navarrete is a former WBO World Super Bantam Champion with 5 successful defences of the title. Christopher Diaz is former WBO NABO Super Feather Champion. He has only one successful defence of the title but is but he is battle-tested, having challenged Masayuki Ito for the WBO junior lightweight world title in July 2018. Diaz rebounded from a 2019 points loss to Shakur Stevenson, besting former world title challenger Jason Sanchez over 10 rounds last June inside the MGM Grand Las Vegas Bubble.

Xander Zayas takes on upset-minded Mexican puncher Jorge Garcia for the vacant WBO junior middleweight world championship at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. In the co-feature, Brooklyn native Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington and unbeaten Namibian Mateus Heita collide for the WBC interim featherweight world title.