{"id":313131,"date":"2025-12-13T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313131\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T02:12:13","slug":"chris-billam-smith-expects-improved-fitter-noel-mikaeljan-against-badou-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313131\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Billam-Smith expects improved, \u2018fitter\u2019 Noel Mikaeljan against Badou Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">According to Tasman Fighters\u2019 Mick Francis, the promoter of the IBF champion Jai Opetaia, a contract exists for the winner of the fight between Sweden\u2019s Jack and Mikaeljan to confront Opetaia in a unification contest in 2026, and asked which of the two he believes is likely to be more interested in testing themselves against their division\u2019s recognised number one, Billam-Smith said: \u201cMikaeljan. The winner is probably in line to fight Opetaia \u2013 that\u2019s what I would want in that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Tasman Fighters\u2019 Mick Francis, the promoter of the IBF champion Jai Opetaia, a contract exists for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[48692,2560,17029,121248,122115,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-badou-jack","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-chris-billam-smith","11":"tag-declan-warrington","12":"tag-noel-mikaelyan","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313131","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=313131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}