Fight Hub TV<\/a>, IBF cruiserweight ruler Jai Opetaia said that, whilst his current focus is becoming the undisputed champion at 200lbs, he would step up to heavyweight and accept a fight against Usyk \u2018with both hands\u2019 if offered the opportunity.<\/p>\n\u201cWho knows what the future holds. I\u2019m not here to call out Usyk, I\u2019m not like that. I never really sit here and call people out or try to disrespect anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, if that fight comes, a fight against Usyk, you take it with both hands but we are just here to focus on becoming undisputed at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThem [Zuffa] being in talks with signing Usyk is huge. It just shows that Zuffa is heading in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Opetaia is scheduled to make his Zuffa Boxing debut on Sunday, March 8, where he attempts to claim the vacant and inaugural Zuffa Boxing cruiserweight title against Atlanta\u2019s Brandon Glanton<\/a>. A move up to heavyweight for the 30-year-old seems inevitable one day, but Usyk \u2013 who has also been linked with a move to Dana White\u2019s Zuffa \u2013 is much more likely to focus on the names already present in the division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk is on the lookout for a voluntary defence of the unified heavyweight world titles and there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431674","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\/431674","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=431674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}