Key stats and numbers for Zayas-Garcia and 'Shu Shu'-Heita

Xander Zayas volition look his toughest trial yet erstwhile helium takes connected Jorge Garcia Perez for the vacant WBO inferior middleweight rubric Saturday successful New York. The combat astatine the Theater astatine Madison Square Garden (ESPN, ESPN+, 9 p.m. ET) volition beryllium Zayas' archetypal for a satellite title.

Zayas (21-0, 13 KOs) has won 3 of his past 5 fights by stoppage, including a ninth-round TKO of Slawa Spomer successful February. Zayas, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, but present surviving successful Florida, has been connected the accelerated way ever since his debut successful 2019. He is ESPN's No. 8-ranked combatant astatine 154 pounds.

Garcia Perez (33-4, 26 KOs), of Sinaloa, Mexico, is riding an eight-fight winning streak since losing to Etoundi Michel William successful January 2023. He had awesome victories implicit 2016 U.S. Olympian Charles Conwell and rubric contender Kudratillo Abdukakhorov successful his past 2 fights.

In the co-main event, Bruce "Shu Shu" Carrington vies for the WBC interim featherweight rubric successful a 12-round combat against Mateus Heita.

Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs) is from Brownsville, a vicinity successful Brooklyn that has produced champions specified arsenic "Iron" Mike Tyson, Riddick "Big Daddy" Bowe and Zab Judah, among others.

Ranked No. 6 successful ESPN's featherweight rankings, Carrington is one of the astir talented fighters successful boxing, with earthy power, velocity and fantabulous defense.

Heita (14-0, 9 KOs), from Namibia, is warring successful the U.S. for the archetypal clip -- 13 of his 14 fights person taken spot successful his location country, with the different being successful Zimbabwe.

Eight of Heita's past 10 fights person ended wrong the distance, 7 successful the archetypal 5 rounds. He fights with an orthodox stance, possesses powerfulness successful his close manus and has large footwork.

Let's look astatine some fights by the numbers, with information from ESPN Research and CompuBox.

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Xander Zayas vs. Jorge Garcia Perez

16: Zayas' property erstwhile helium signed with Top Rank, making him the youngest combatant ever signed by the company.

3: Zayas' victories by stoppage successful his past 5 fights.

7: Times that Zayas has fought astatine Madison Square Garden (Theater oregon arena), including his past 3 fights. However, helium has lone 2 stoppage wins successful those fights (Slawa Spomer and Alessio Mastronunzio).

11: Youth nationalist tournaments won by Zayas, including the U.S. Youth National Championships successful 2017 and 2018. He defeated Derrick Jackson by points successful the final.

4: Position successful ESPN's ranking of champion fighters nether the property of 25 successful 2023 and 2024.

67.8: Average of punches thrown per circular by Zayas, good supra the inferior middleweight part mean (55.5).

30.9: Percentage of Zayas' assemblage punches landed, good supra the part mean (28.8%).

-425: Odd for Zayas to win. Zayas is +340 to triumph by KO/TKO/DQ.

15.4: Average fig of punches landed by Garcia Perez successful his past 3 fights. Of those, 5.5 were assemblage punches.

2: Garcia Perez's victories by first-round KO successful his past 5 fights (against Ilias Essaoudi and Abraham Juarez Ramirez). He needed lone 46 seconds to decision Essaoudi.

78.79: KO percent for Garcia Perez successful his pro vocation (26 KOs successful 33 wins). Zayas' KO percent is 61.9 (13 KOs successful 21 wins).

750: Punches thrown by Garcia Perez successful his upset triumph implicit Conwell successful April. He threw 49 much full punches and 90 much powerfulness punches than Conwell successful that 12-round fight. Garcia Perez won by divided determination (115-113, 115-113 and 113-115).

27.8: Percentage of powerfulness punches landed against Garcia Perez by Conwell, Abdukakhorov and Angel Cruz -- 8.1 per round.

13.1: Average fig of powerfulness punches landed per circular by Garcia Perez retired of 42.5 thrown (30.8%) against Conwell, Abdukakhorov and Cruz.

Bruce 'Shu Shu' Carrington vs. Mateus Heita

6: Carrington's wins by stoppage successful his past 10 fights, including a third-round TKO of Enrique Vivas successful March.

0: Number of 12-round fights for Carrington entering this interim rubric bout.

9.2: Average per circular of punches landed by Carrington's past 5 opponents, good beneath the mean for the featherweight part (16).

43.9: Percentage of powerfulness punches landed by Carrington against his past 5 opponents. The mean for the featherweight part is 35.1%.

6.1: Jabs landed by Carrington against his past 5 opponents. The mean for the part is conscionable 3.8.

5.2: Average fig of rounds fought by Heita -- 73 rounds successful 14 fights.

32: Number of letters successful Heita's commencement name: Mateus Natangwe Nghidimbwasha Heita.

11: Ranking presumption for Heita with the WBC, which is sanctioning his combat against the No. 1-ranked Carrington.

+1600: Odds for the underdog Heita to triumph the fight. Carrington is simply a -5000 favorite.