{"id":104210,"date":"2026-01-18T10:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jai-opetaia-signs-with-zuffa-boxing-cruiserweight-champion-seeks-unification\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:29:27","slug":"jai-opetaia-signs-with-zuffa-boxing-cruiserweight-champion-seeks-unification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/jai-opetaia-signs-with-zuffa-boxing-cruiserweight-champion-seeks-unification\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Opetaia Signs with Zuffa Boxing: Cruiserweight Champion Seeks Unification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jai Opetaia Joins Zuffa Boxing<\/h2>\n\nZuffa Boxing has made its first major addition to its roster of boxers, by signing IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia to a promotional deal this Friday.\n\nThe announcement was made via Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s account on X, with a video of Opetaia confirming the signing.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cNow I&#8217;m with Zuffa Boxing. I&#8217;m excited for the future. Exciting times, man. Let&#8217;s get these big fights: unification and undisputed as well. Let&#8217;s go,\u201d Opetaia declared.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Jai Opetaia<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIt is not known whether Opetaia will compete exclusively on Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s cards or if he will be allowed to continue fighting for world titles for other sanctioning bodies.\n\nOpetaia (29-0, 23 KOs), originally from Gold Coast, Australia, is widely considered the best cruiserweight in the sport. He is coming off a brutal eighth-round knockout of Huseyin Cinkara in December, his fourth consecutive knockout victory.\n\nOpetaia, 30 years old, has expressed his frustration at not being able to secure a unification fight with the other champions in the division. Noel Mikaelian holds the WBC title, while Gilberto &#8220;Zurdo&#8221; Ramirez is the WBO and WBA champion. Ramirez will defend his unified titles against David Benavidez in May.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jai Opetaia Joins Zuffa Boxing Zuffa Boxing has made its first major addition to its roster of boxers, by signing IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia to a promotional deal this Friday. The announcement was made via Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s account on X, with a video of Opetaia confirming the signing. \u201cNow I&#8217;m with Zuffa Boxing. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3754,3755,1619,9313],"class_list":{"0":"post-104210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-cruiserweight","9":"tag-jai-opetaia","10":"tag-signing","11":"tag-zuffa-boxing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}