{"id":517229,"date":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","slug":"jai-opetaia-brandon-glanton-officials-confirmed-ibf-title-status-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517229\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia-Brandon Glanton officials confirmed; IBF title status\u2026 is not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Opetaia defeated Zorro via 1st round knockout, to defend The Ring championship. He eventually fought Briedis a second time, winning via unanimous decision in May 2024 to regain the IBF strap which he\u2019s since defended four times. Included among the run was a mandatory title defense against Huseyin Cinkara, whom Opetaia knocked out in the 8th round last December 6 at Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broadbeach, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opetaia defeated Zorro via 1st round knockout, to defend The Ring championship. He eventually fought Briedis a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,60776,25990,87392,53146,85,114155],"class_list":["post-517229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-brandon-glanton","tag-cruiserweight","tag-ibf","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517229","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=517229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}