{"id":418515,"date":"2026-01-17T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418515\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:23:07","slug":"zuffa-boxing-signs-world-cruiserweight-champion-jai-opetaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418515\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing signs world cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Opetaia, 29-0 (23 KOs) \u2013 a Sydney native now based in Australia\u2019s Gold Coast \u2013 is coming off a three-win campaign in 2025, all of them inside the distance and versus unbeaten opposition. In his most recent start, the 30-year-old southpaw violently knocked out IBF mandatory challenger Huseyin Cinkara on December 6 at Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broadbeach, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opetaia, 29-0 (23 KOs) \u2013 a Sydney native now based in Australia\u2019s Gold Coast \u2013 is coming off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,53146,85,118061],"class_list":["post-418515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-sports","tag-zuffa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418515","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=418515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}