{"id":313770,"date":"2025-11-28T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313770\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:30:10","slug":"justis-huni-vs-kiki-toa-leutele-fight-cancelled-after-keri-fius-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313770\/","title":{"rendered":"Justis Huni vs Kiki Toa Leutele fight cancelled after Keri Fiu’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian heavyweight star Justis Huni<\/a> has withdrawn from his fight against New Zealand’s Kiki Toa Leutele on December 6 following the death of his trainer, Keri Fiu.<\/p>\n

Fiu, 48, collapsed after stepping off his training bike during a routine conditioning session earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Huni and his strength and conditioning coach succeeded in reviving him, but Fiu died later after being put into an induced coma and entering intensive care.<\/p>\n

‘Ring of Fire’: Opetaia vs Cinkara for the cruiserweight world titles on December 6 is available to order now on Stan Pay-Per-View<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Justis<\/p>\n

Justis Huni at Ipswich Town Hall.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I can’t find the words to describe how much this hurts, and it doesn’t feel real,” Huni said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

“I love you, Kez, and everything I do from here will always be for you. Until we meet again, big buddy.”<\/p>\n

Huni had been slated to head the undercard of Jai Opetaia vs Huseyin Cinkara at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Jai<\/p>\n

Jai Opetaia and Keri Fiu.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

Fiu’s life and contribution to boxing will be honoured in a 10-minute memorial tribute, featuring Samoan dancers and a minute of clapping, on the fight night.<\/p>\n

Opetaia had also worked extensively with Fiu and will fight to make him proud against Cinkara, a 40-year-old German giant who also boasts an unbeaten record.<\/p>\n

“Cinkara is a tough opponent in my mandatory, however, he stands in my way on the road to being undisputed world cruiserweight champion,” Opetaia said.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Ring of Fire fight card.\u00a0Stan<\/p>\n

“It’s great to end the year up at home on the Gold Coast, and I look forward to putting on a spectacular event again with Tasman Fighters on Stan Pay-Per-View.<\/p>\n

“We will go to war on December 6.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian heavyweight star Justis Huni has withdrawn from his fight against New Zealand’s Kiki Toa Leutele on December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-313770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313770","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=313770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}