kiaba360Sun Oct 12, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC<\/p>\n
The greater issue is that Opetaia could fight a more formidable contender, but it wouldn’t improve his marquee value or standing. There’s seemingly no incentive or external pressure to take on a tougher foe, unless it’s a unification. Additionally, the IBF isn’t being proactive in forcing their contenders to weed each other out<\/p>\n
famicommanderSun Oct 12, 2025, 3:56 PM UTC<\/p>\n
Jai prefers to continuously fight the worst guy he can get away with fighting without being stripped.<\/p>\n
Except for Briedis twice, his resume is Rolly Romero-tier.<\/p>\n
CoverdaleSun Oct 12, 2025, 3:54 PM UTC<\/p>\n
Oh no, I was really looking forward to another historic ‘interim’ title fight with an unknown quantity as one of the opponents.<\/p>\n
In all seriousness, the obvious fight to make while Zurdo is injured is Jai – CBS. Sanctioning body politics are creating obstacles in all divisions.<\/p>\n
famicommanderSun Oct 12, 2025, 3:20 PM UTC<\/p>\n
Nothing ever happens at cruiserweight.<\/p>\n
Opetaia keeps fighting no-hopers, Zurdo is hurt, Badou Jack is in some kind of WBC tournament groundhog day nonsense, CBS can’t even get a fight.<\/p>\n
RJJ-94-02=GOATSun Oct 12, 2025, 3:17 PM UTC<\/p>\n
I believe it\u2019s being lowered to 150k. Boxxer still might not have the available budget from BBC. :lol1:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"kiaba360Sun Oct 12, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC The greater issue is that Opetaia could fight a more formidable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,27651,1920,128565,128566,85,8941],"class_list":["post-208364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-scene","tag-boxing-news","tag-chris-billam-smith","tag-roman-fress","tag-sports","tag-wbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}