{"id":649880,"date":"2026-05-05T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:47:09","slug":"tim-bradley-doubles-down-on-david-benavidez-vs-jai-opetaia-prediction-hes-not-going-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649880\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley doubles down on David Benavidez vs Jai Opetaia prediction: “He’s not going anywhere”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After David Benavidez<\/a> ran through Gilberto \u2018Zurdo Ramirez\u2019 with ease, two-division world champion Tim Bradley can only see one winner in a potential fight with Jai Opetaia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite moving up 25lbs, Benavidez needed only six rounds to dispatch of Ramirez<\/a>, becoming a three-division ruler and rising up the pound-for-pound rankings. Although, his future in the division is unknown, due to previous plans of returning to light-heavyweight and facing Dmitry Bivol.<\/p>\n

However, with Bivol possibly tied up in two fights<\/a> before that can take place, fans are hoping that \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 will hang around in the 200lb division and next fight Opetaia, regardless of the fact that the Aussie has signed with Zuffa Boxing and stripped of his IBF world title.<\/p>\n

Before witnessing Benavidez\u2019s beatdown of Ramirez, Bradley declared that Benavidez would comfortably overcome Opetaia and he seemed even more convinced when he told his YouTube channel<\/a> that Opetaia is not on Benavidez\u2019s level, after watching Saturday\u2019s fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cJai Opetaia is going to get his a** whooped by David, oh yeah. Jai, bring your a** on. David ain\u2019t going nowhere. He beats the s**t out of Jai Opetaia too, he ain\u2019t on your damn level either, no.<\/p>\n

\u201cJai likes to take breaks too, he can box, he got feet, yep, but you are going to be on that a**, you are going to be putting them combinations on his a**, with that speed and power? Damn, David had power too!\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez could also move up to the heavyweight division, with his father eyeing up another \u2018crazy\u2019 move for \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After David Benavidez ran through Gilberto \u2018Zurdo Ramirez\u2019 with ease, two-division world champion Tim Bradley can only see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-649880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649880","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=649880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}