{"id":468353,"date":"2026-02-11T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468353\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:19:07","slug":"jai-opetaia-vs-brandon-glanton-set-for-zuffa-cruiserweight-title-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468353\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia vs Brandon Glanton set for Zuffa cruiserweight title, March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zuffa Boxing will host its first ever title fight on March 8 in Las Vegas as IBF cruiserweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47890539\/opetaia-face-glanton-inaugural-zuffa-cruiserweight-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jai Opetaia is formally scheduled to face Brandon Glanton<\/a> with Zuffa\u2019s cruiserweight belt on the line, with no mention of the IBF belt being in the balance at this time. The fight will be held at the Meta Apex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Opetaia (29-0, 23 KOs) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/112962\/jai-opetaia-discusses-move-to-zuffa-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently signed with Zuffa last month<\/a>, which was its first big signing, and says he intends to pursue the undisputed cruiserweight crown, including Zuffa\u2019s new hardware. He most recently stopped Huseyin Cinkara in eight rounds this past December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Glanton (21-3, 18 KOs) is a relatively unheralded opponent but is coming off a stoppage win over Marcus Browne last October, which got him back in the win column after losing a unanimous decision to Chris Billam-Smith earlier in 2025. Opetaia will be a clear step up in competition for Glanton, obviously, but he\u2019ll have the chance to make a name for himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing will host its first ever title fight on March 8 in Las Vegas as IBF cruiserweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-468353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468353","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=468353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}