Xander Zayas will fight Jorge Garcia for WBO title

Xander Zayas (21-0, 13 KOs) will fight for WBO World super-welterweight title on July 26 in “Madison Square Garden”, New York.

He will be up against Jorge Garcia Perez (33-4, 26 KOs).

For 22-year-old Zayas will be first fight for a world title. Title became vacant after Sebastian Fundora refused to fight Zayas and choose to fight Tim Tszyu in a rematch.

Also featured on the fight card will be undefeated featherweight Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs) and rising junior welterweight star Emiliano Vargas (14-0, 12 KOs) in separate fights.

Carrington will face Namibia’s Mateus Heita (14-0, 9 KOs) for the WBC interim featherweight title in the co-main event.

Vargas, the youngest son of former world champion Fernando Vargas, will look to turn back the challenge of Ecuador’s Alexander Espinoza (20-3-1, 9 KOs) in the televised opener.