{"id":394912,"date":"2026-01-07T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:32:07","slug":"chris-billam-smith-ready-to-fight-once-the-business-takes-care-of-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394912\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Billam-Smith ready to fight once the business takes care of itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cBoxing at the level I\u2019ve boxed at and seeing what I see I don\u2019t think he [Opetaia]\u2019s ever looked invincible,\u201d said Billam-Smith. \u201cI think he\u2019s looked very very very good and no one could doubt his talent, but no one\u2019s invincible and I think he\u2019s shown that a few times. \u201cDavid Nyika hurt him. He\u2019s been hurt a few times. Cinkara obviously hurt him, but that fight was always gonna go like that. I spoke to [BoxingScene\u2019s] Dec Warrington about it and he said, \u2018Can you give me a prediction?\u2019 I said, \u2018It\u2019s a four-round fight for Cinkara and after that I think Opetaia will stop him I think six to eight.\u2019 [It was over in the eighth]. So you couldn\u2019t get that much more spot on. But Cinkara\u2019s a hard night for anyone. People look at his age and they look at these wins and stuff but he\u2019s got freakish punch power and his style is really weird. He\u2019s really awkward and he\u2019s a bit wild, so he\u2019s going to cause anyone problems and he caused Opetaia problems. That, to me, is kind of like I expected it to happen, so it\u2019s not like, \u2018Oh wow, maybe Opetaia can be beat.\u2019 Of course he can be beat. He&#8217;s a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBoxing at the level I\u2019ve boxed at and seeing what I see I don\u2019t think he [Opetaia]\u2019s ever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,101350,43137,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-394912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chris-billam-smith","12":"tag-jai-opetaia","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394912","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=394912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}