{"id":467366,"date":"2026-02-11T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467366\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:25:09","slug":"first-zuffa-boxing-championship-fight-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467366\/","title":{"rendered":"First Zuffa Boxing Championship Fight Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-10-Feb-2026-08-15-PM-3709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23961329\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\u00a9 Jasmin Frank-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO Dana White has announced the first Zuffa Boxing championship title fight.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, March 8th, Ring Cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia vs Brandon Glanton, which will be for the newly minted Zuffa Boxing World Cruiserweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to announce today for Zuffa Boxing Jai Opetaia, Ring Magazine champion and the number one ranked fighter in the world, makes his Zuffa Boxing debut against Brandon Glanton for the inaugural Zuffa Boxing World Cruiserweight Championship on March 8.Great fight, and it will be for the first ever Zuffa cruiserweight world championship. Whoever wins this fight will be our first world champion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dana White announces <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ZuffaBoxing04?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ZuffaBoxing04<\/a> Main Event<\/p>\n<p>Jai Opetaia vs Brandon Glanton for the inaugural Zuffa Boxing World Cruiserweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>March 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gs9FIzta3q\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gs9FIzta3q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jed I. Goodman \u00a9 (@jedigoodman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jedigoodman\/status\/2021335973175623889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ will stream the 12-round bout from UFC\u2019s Meta APEX Performance Center.<\/p>\n<p>Opetaia<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Jasmin Frank-Imagn Images UFC CEO Dana White has announced the first Zuffa Boxing championship title fight. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,10359,82],"class_list":["post-467366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dana-white","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467366","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=467366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}