Xander Zayas just uncomplicated the Vergil Ortiz vs. Jaron Ennis conundrum

Xander Zayas just uncomplicated the Vergil Ortiz vs. Jaron Ennis conundrum

I’ll always bear in mind chatting with boxing promoter Bob Arum within weeks of Top Rank signing a 16-year-old expertise, and asking him how he pertains to youthful fighters as he will get older, at the time deep into his 80s.

Arum recruited Xander Zayas to his roster when the teenager was still in high college, however was blown away by the fighter’s skills, measurement for his age and potential to go all the method.

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But, as he told me in 2020 via a voice that broke with emotion, “it fills me with regret because I’m a realist about longevity.”

Arum “fell in love” with Zayas and the Puerto Rican’s household, he said, despite a 71-year age hole…

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