{"id":331808,"date":"2025-12-08T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331808\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:15:11","slug":"opetaia-defends-titles-with-brutal-one-punch-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331808\/","title":{"rendered":"Opetaia Defends Titles With Brutal One-Punch KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jai Opetaia continued to make his mark in the boxing world last night (Sat., Dec. 6, 2025) in Gold Coast, Australia, delivering a brutal one-punch knockout victory over Huseyin Cinkara to retain his IBF and The Ring cruiserweight titles in the eighth round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Opetaia was in control throughout the fight, peppering his foe with several big shots. In the eighth round, however, the Aussie timed a perfect overhand left that rattled his foes head and sent him crashing to the canvas out cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the win, Opetaia improves to 29-0 and earns his fifth titles defense of both his IBF and The Ring cruiserweight straps. Despite his devastating knockout win, Opetaia wasn\u2019t exactly thrilled with his overall performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI feel like I just fought like s&#8212;, to be honest,\u201d said Opetaia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47204907\/jai-opetaia-huseyin-cinkara-fight-live-blog-stream-boxing-how-watch-ibf-ring-cruiserweight-world-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during his post-fight interview.<\/a> \u201cYou get these nights. We go back to the drawing board. I\u2019m very disappointed in myself, I feel like I\u2019ve let some people down with that performance. I made a lot of mistakes. I\u2019m so pissed off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia continued to make his mark in the boxing world last night (Sat., Dec. 6, 2025) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-331808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}