Open Workout: Xander Zayas and Abass Baraou Prepare For Saturday's Unification Showdown in Puerto Rico

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