Australian cruiserweight Jai Opetaia has outlined that his boxing mission remains to be the undisputed champion at 200lbs.<\/p>\n
Opetaia, the Zuffa cruiserweight champion, is 30-0 (23 KOs), is regarded as the best fighter in the world at the weight, although David Benavidez, should he stay at 200lbs after dismantling Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez, could argue the case.<\/p>\n
Opetaia has boxed just once this year, outscoring Brandon Glanton in March, and he\u2019s calling for the biggest fights at his weight and he wants the champions.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth\u2019s Chris Billam-Smith \u2013 another Zuffa signing \u2013 is in hot pursuit of the Australian southpaw following his stoppage of Ryan Rozicki last week, but Opetaia is looking for belts and Billam-Smith previously lost his WBO title to Ramirez.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually had a good sitdown with the team today and we\u2019re hoping to make that dream possible by the end of the year,\u201d Opetaia said, talking about his next steps at a TKO event in Washington DC. \u201cThat\u2019s a perfect plan. Early next year would be good but undisputed is what I want. Any of these other beltholders want it, I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s an easy fight to make. All they\u2019ve got to do it reach out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cruiserweight Jai Opetaia has outlined that his boxing mission remains to be the undisputed champion at 200lbs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,175715,53146,85],"class_list":["post-737642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-cruiserweight-boxing","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737642","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=737642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}