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IBF cruiserweight champion Jay Opetaya (27-0, 21 KOs) says he wants a unification fight with WBA/WBO champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez on Wednesday following a fourth-round knockout of challenger David Nika (10-1, 9 KOs). Night in Australia.
In game concerns
The 29-year-old Opetaya will have to fight better than Zurdo Ramirez to win the unification title. He’s a great closer fighter that Zurdo will take advantage of tonight against Nika on the inside. That’s the best part of the game. In an inside fight, he beat Opetaya and beat him with his fists.
Tonight we saw that Jai is a one-armed fighter, who can put the Left in power and only needs to be outside to generate power. Nika was average on the inside as he closed the position, grappled and punched to force him into that fight. If this was Ramirez, the Jays might be out of the league.
According to Jack Donovan’s Tasman Warriors boss Mick Francis, May 3 is the date of a potential merger between Opetaya and Zurdo Ramirez. Now the malicious party is trying to compromise the game. That won’t be easy.
Opetaya is a good fighter in the Bivol mold, but he is zero in the game, and he is not built for fighters like Gilberto Ramirez, Oleksandr Usyk or Artur Beterbiev. It is a very one-dimensional and redundant type of post.
Nika’s dog fighting tactics
“I want those merger wars. I want all those belts around my waist,” Opetaya said Media At the post-fight press conference after the victory over Nika. “I’m chasing one-on-one fights, but I can’t help it if someone else puts me in front of me.
“I was shocked at how it came out,” Opetaya said of Naika’s attack. “My old man said to me, ‘He wants to fight a dog.’ “If a dog wants to fight, let a dog fight.”
Nika was fighting Opetaya, crushing him and battering him from the inside. His tactic of turning the fight into a dogfight was effective. When Jai finished the fight in the fourth round, he hit Nika with a left hand and then attacked him with a combination.
