{"id":525469,"date":"2026-03-07T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:02:08","slug":"johnny-lewis-predicts-jai-opetaia-will-surpass-jeff-fenech-and-kostya-tszyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525469\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Lewis predicts Jai Opetaia will surpass Jeff Fenech and Kostya Tszyu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">The 30-year-old Opetaia has made little secret of his desire to become the undisputed champion in one of his weight division\u2019s most competitive eras, and it is that \u2013 and therefore, officially, supremacy over Glanton, Noel Mikaelian, Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez and others \u2013 that the respected Lewis believes he needs before he surpasses Tszyu and Fenech as the best of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 30-year-old Opetaia has made little secret of his desire to become the undisputed champion in one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,53146,27662,2781,2807,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-525469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-jai-opetaia","12":"tag-jeff-fenech","13":"tag-johnny-lewis","14":"tag-kostya-tszyu","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525469","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=525469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}