Open Workout: Xander Zayas and Abass Baraou Prepare For Saturday's Unification Showdown in Puerto Rico
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Zayas-Baraou and undercard bouts will stream on the Top Rank Classics FAST channel beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Jan. 28, 2026) — Xander Zayas and Abass Baraou kicked off fight week today with a public workout at Distrito T-Mobile in San Juan, Puerto Rico, just three days out from a historic unification showdown.
Zayas (22-0, 13 KOs), the rising WBO junior middleweight world champion, will fight at home for the first time in nearly six years when he meets Baraou (17-1, 9 KOs), the WBA champ, this Saturday, Jan. 31, at Coliseo de Puerto Rico.
Both men earned their crowns last summer and moved directly into a winner-take-all unification showdown, marking only the second time two reigning world champions will meet on the Island.
They were joined by Dominican contender Rohan “El Rayo” Polanco (17-0, 10 KOs) and Mexican puncher Christian Gomez (23-6-1, 21 KOs), who will lock horns in the 10-round welterweight co-feature.
Also appearing was rising second-generation hopeful Juanmita Lopez De Jesus (4-0, 2 KOs), the 19-year-old son of former world champion Juan Manuel “Juanma” Lopez, who faces Conner Goade (8-4-2, 7 KOs) in a six-round tilt at junior bantamweight.
Zayas-Baraou, Polanco-Gomez, and the entire undercard will stream for free on the Top Rank Classics FAST channel in the U.S. beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT.
Zayas vs. Baraou will begin at approximately 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
To watch on mobile or desktop, visit trboxing.co/TopRankClassics. To watch on your smart TV, check the availability of FAST channel apps and search for Top Rank Classics on The Roku Channel, Tubi, or Vizio.
Promoted by Top Rank, in association with ICON+, Move Concerts, and Noah Assad Presents, tickets are on sale via Ticketera.com.
The Zayas vs. Baraou event will also be shown worldwide in the following territories:
AMERICAS
First Bell: 5:30 p.m. ET
Main Event: 10 p.m. ET
PlutoTV — Canada
ESPN2/Disney+ — Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Argentina
ESPN/Disney+ — Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Uruguay
TV Azteca — Mexico
EUROPE
First Bell: 10:30 p.m. GMT
Main Event: 3 a.m GMT (Sunday)
Top Rank on Facebook — UK, Ireland, and Germany
Arena Sport — Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Slovenia
TVP — Poland
Megogo — Ukraine
Nova — Bulgaria
TV3 — Baltics
ASIA-PACIFIC
First Bell: 9:30 a.m. AET (Sunday)
Main Event: 2 p.m. AET
Top Rank on Facebook — Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Australia
CCTV-5 — China
Fight Sports — South Korea
Freedom Media — Kazakhstan
The full fight card is as follows:
Xander Zayas vs. Abass Baraou, 12 Rounds, Zayas' WBO and Baraou's WBA Junior Middleweight World Titles
Rohan Polanco vs. Christian Gomez, 10 Rounds, Polanco's WBO Intercontinental Welterweight Title
Juanmita Lopez De Jesus vs. Conner Goade, 6 rounds, Junior Bantamweight
Carlos De Leon Castro vs. Diuhl Olguin, 6 rounds, Junior Lightweight
Yadriel Caban vs. Jeremis Hernandez-Torres, 4 rounds, Junior Bantamweight
Euri Cedeno vs. Etoundi Michel William, 10 rounds, Middleweight
Giovani Santillan vs. Courtney Pennington, 10 rounds, Junior Middleweight
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