{"id":301892,"date":"2025-12-06T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301892\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:43:07","slug":"jai-opetaia-retains-ibf-and-ring-titles-with-devastating-huseyin-cinkara-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301892\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia retains IBF and Ring titles with devastating Huseyin Cinkara knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jai Opetaia retained his IBF and Ring cruiserweight titles with a devastating knockout victory against Huseyin Cinkara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian, 30, dominated before landing a dynamite left hand to put Turkish-German Cinkara on the canvas in Queensland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 40-year-old lay motionless for several minutes after the bout was called, but regained consciousness and was helped to his stool after medical attention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite improving his 29-0 unbeaten record, Opetaia was unhappy with his performance in front of a home crowd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You get these nights. We go back to the drawing board,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very disappointed in myself &#8211; I feel like I&#8217;ve let some people down with that performance. I made a lot of mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opetaia confirmed after the victory that he is eyeing WBO and WBA champion Gilberto Ramirez in order to unify the belts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want the unification fights,&#8221; said Opetaia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want Ramirez. I&#8217;ve been asking for them [Ramirez&#8217;s team] for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia retained his IBF and Ring cruiserweight titles with a devastating knockout victory against Huseyin Cinkara. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-301892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}