{"id":889861,"date":"2026-09-12T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T23:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:28:38","slug":"jai-opetaia-vs-noel-mikaelian-boxing-fight-2026-live-updates-round-by-round-results-ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-main-event-australian-champion-mourns-louis-meehan-after-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889861\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia vs Noel Mikaelian boxing fight 2026, LIVE updates, round by round results, Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn main event; Australian champion mourns Louis Meehan after murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jai Opetaia\u2019s move to join Zuffa Boxing earlier this year has unwittingly acted as a double-edged sword for the undefeated Australian superstar.<\/p>\n

On one hand, Opetaia has been exposed to a lot more eyeballs \u2013 especially in the United States \u2013 rubbing shoulders with UFC champions, WWE legends and even Donald Trump as part of the Dana White-led and Saudi-backed promotion.<\/p>\n

But on the flip side, the 31-year-old has been caught in the middle of political dramas that saw him stripped of his IBF cruiserweight title.<\/p>\n

While this weekend\u2019s showdown in Sin City has some difficult circumstances surrounding it for both competitors, it does continue an unlikely rise for Opetaia.<\/p>\n

From growing up in a small NSW town to fighting in front of millions of people, Opetaia\u2019s decision to sign with Zuffa has grown his global status.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR THE EXCLUSIVE STORY<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jai Opetaia poses for a photo with Donald Trump.\u00a0Instagram\/@jaiopetaia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia\u2019s move to join Zuffa Boxing earlier this year has unwittingly acted as a double-edged sword for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-889861","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\/889861","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=889861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}