Opetaia is an excellent boxer. Ive been watching more of his fights lately. He has to be a younger cousin of demigod Bivol. The just have to be apart of the same family. Both are grandmaster chess players in the ring and look similar. Brother from another mother !! I love a fighter will high IQ that can control distance and mentally play their opponent like a puppet on strings. Its like they won before the fight was even announced. Opetaia is in a different league to Okolie and he will go down as a cruiserweight Great. He will even win a title at heavyweight and continue the route that the other greats, Spinks, Holyfield, and Usyk have done before him. He will beat the heart out of Okolie and no part of this fight will be competitive. Okolie is a decent fighter but he's horrible to watch and he milks his size advantage like no other. And he's got a glass chin. But Opetaia will come to the rescue and end the british hype for good. People think because the Mechanical Menace Opetaia is a southpaw that automatically means he's tailor made for Okolie. Far from it my friend. The feints will make Okolie behave more one dimensional with his offense and Opetaia will counter with a left down the pipe over that telegraphed jab, mess with the range and force Okolie to rely on one punch power rather than size. And little by little he will slice and dice the squid until he's ready to be served to the canvas. He will show a boxing dimension Okolie has not seen since he got trashed by Erislandy Savon. The Mechanical Menace Jai Opetaia will become undisputed cruiserweight champion of the world !!
As injury prone as he is he’d be lucky to get 2 defenses in. But yeah gifted fighter,just wish his body would allow him to work more.
I genuinely believe that we're lucky Briedis didn't fight Okolie. Its an upopular opinion but based on what i saw from Briedis against Opetaiaz Okolie would've just jabbed and hugged him to a decision. The size difference would be too big for Briedis to have over come, simply because Okolie uses his size advantage to the absolute max and leaves no stone unturned when exploiting his height, reach, and strength. Opetaia will be the man to beat Okolie. The Mechanical Menace will send him running up to heavyweight. And the Opetaia will also move up to heavyweight and demolish Okolie again to show him whos boss. It will be satisfying.
