{"id":781585,"date":"2026-07-06T00:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:29:10","slug":"michael-zerafa-gets-matchroom-debut-as-teremoana-headlines-august-12-gold-coast-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781585\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Zerafa Gets Matchroom Debut As Teremoana Headlines August 12 Gold Coast Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be out to make a statement on August 12 and book a future, massive fight on a big pay-per-view card Down Under,\u201d Eddie Hearn said after confirming Zerafa\u2019s first appearance under the Matchroom banner.<\/p>\n<p>The comment provides the clearest indication yet of Matchroom\u2019s plans for Zerafa after signing him to a multi-fight promotional deal. A victory would likely move him toward another high-profile domestic bout before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The card will be headlined by unbeaten heavyweight Teremoana Teremoana (11-0, 11 KOs), who faces fellow knockout artist DeAndre Savage (11-1, 11 KOs) in what is expected to be the toughest test of his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe offered this fight to the current Australian champion and a number of other undefeated heavyweights Down Under. They all swerved it,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cSavage stepped up, and Teremoana gladly accepted the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, this will be his hardest bout yet. Savage is a dangerous operator, and he really can whack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savage\u2019s lone defeat came on points to Brandon Moore last year. Every one of his 11 victories has come by knockout, setting up a meeting between two heavy-handed fighters with a combined 22 knockouts from 23 wins.<\/p>\n<p>Also scheduled to appear on the August 12 card are super middleweight Jack Bowen, flyweights Jasmine Parr and Jemma Peart, and unbeaten prospect Lekesha Woodbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019ll be out to make a statement on August 12 and book a future, massive fight on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-781585","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\/781585","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=781585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}