Uncrowned has Xander Zayas vs. Jorge Garcia and Bruce Carrington vs. Mateus Heita live results, round-by-round updates, highlights, ring walks and start time for the Zayas vs. Garcia fight card on Saturday night at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Rising star Zayas looks to win his first world title as he and Garcia collide for the vacant WBO super welterweight championship in another installment of boxing’s age-old Puerto Rico vs. Mexico rivalry.
Puerto Rico’s Zayas (21-0, 13 KOs), 22, will become boxing’s youngest active major male champion with a win over Garcia. Zayas headlined a ESPN-broadcasted event for the first time in June 2024, winning a wide decision over Patrick Teixeira. Most recently, he stopped Slawa Spomer in the ninth round this past February.
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Mexico’s Garcia (33-4, 26 KOs) scored a big upset over Charles Conwell by split decision in April to capture the WBO’s No. 2 ranking and put himself in line for a vacant world title shot.
In the night’s battle of unbeatens co-feature, Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs) looks like capture the WBC interim featherweight title against Mateus Heita (14-0, 9 KOs).
The Zayas vs. Garcia fight card begins at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN+, with the main card scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN. Main event ring walks are expected around 11 p.m. ET.
Follow all of the action with Uncrowned’s live results and highlights below, as well as play-by-play of the main card.
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Main card (9 p.m. ET, ESPN)
WBO super welterweight title: Xander Zayas def. Jorge Garcia via unanimous decision (116-112, 118-110, 119-109)
WBC interim featherweight title: Bruce Carrington def. Mateus Heita via unanimous decision (119-109, 119-109, 120-108)
Super lightweight: Emiliano Vargas def. Alexander Espinoza via first-round KO | Watch video
Prelims (6 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
Welterweight: Rohan Polanco def. Quinton Randall via unanimous decision (97-93, 100-90, 99-91)
Super flyweight: Juanmita Lopez De Jesus def. Jorge Gonzalez-Sanchez via second-round TKO | Watch video
Featherweight: Yan Santana def. Aaron Alameda via unanimous decision (100-90, 100-90, 100-90)
Super flyweight: Steven Navarro def. Cristopher Rios via unanimous decision (77-75, 77-75, 77-75)
Lightweight: Julius Ballo def. Brandan Ayala via unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)
