The WBO/WBA junior middleweight unification bout between Xander Zayas and Abass Baraou now has a broadcast home.
The fight, scheduled for Saturday, January 31 at Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, will air live on the Top Rank Classics FAST channel, Top Rank announced Wednesday. The channel, which airs reruns of the Las Vegas-based promotion’s biggest fights from years past, can be accessed on mobile or desktop at trboxing.co/TopRankClassics, or on FAST channel apps like Roku, Tubi and Vizio.
The broadcast will begin at 5:30 p.m. ET, and will also include a welterweight fight between Rohan Polanco, 17-0 (10 KOs) and Christian Gomez, 23-6-1 (21 KOs).
Zayas, 22-0 (13 KOs), will be fighting for the first time in his native Puerto Rico since his fourth pro fight in 2020, and is making the first defense of his WBO 154lbs title. The 23-year-old Zayas defeated Jorge Garcia in his last fight, in July, by unanimous decision to win the vacant belt.
Baraou, 17-1 (9 KOs), is also making his first appearance as a WBA 154lbs champion, having defeated Yoenis Tellez by unanimous decision in August.
Other fights slated for the card include Juanmita Lopez De Jesus vs. Conner Goade; Carlo De Leon Castro vs. Diuhl Olguin; Yadriel Caban vs. Jeremis Hernandez-Torres; Euri Cedeno vs. Etoundi Michel William; and Giovani Santillan vs. Courtney Pennington.
Zayas-Baraou is the latest show for Top Rank to air on their own platform following the expiration of their output deal with ESPN last year. In November, the company also aired the WBO featherweight title fight between Rafael Espinoza and Arnold Khegai on their Classics channel.
