Can we talk about how good Jai Opetaia is?

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Holy shit. He is ruthless. Hits hard as anybody out there. Fast as fuck. Incredible footwork. This guy should be way more well known than he is right now. What's he going to have to do to become a superstar? Maybe he should move up to HW sooner rather than later?
 
That's what he'll have to do to become a star. Move back up to heavyweight. He's fought there before, several times in fact, but against piss poor opposition. That's why nobody mentions it. I'd like to see him sit at the big boy table and see if he can eat with them. It's a very dangerous jump but that's where the most lucrative match-ups are.
 
He’s exciting and talented, but seems a bit of a glass cannon to me, which doesn’t bode well at HW. Old breidis beat the shit out of him twice in fights he lost handily. His problem is CW is terrible and his only real challenge is a blown up SMW in rameirez, who I think he beats. He’d be a very small HW (he’s a small CW) and is he gonna be durable enough for guys that hit far harder than breidis? I don’t see him having success at HW at all if he did move up.

The biggest/best fight for him is beterbiev but is he gonna put on nearly 2 stone to fight Opetaia? Probably not in all honesty. Unfortunately for jai I Think he’s gonna be stuck fighting at CW or Bridger. Weight classes that most don’t really care about
 
Jonny Ninja said:
He’s exciting and talented, but seems a bit of a glass cannon to me, which doesn’t bode well at HW. Old breidis beat the shit out of him twice in fights he lost handily. His problem is CW is terrible and his only real challenge is a blown up SMW in rameirez, who I think he beats. He’d be a very small HW (he’s a small CW) and is he gonna be durable enough for guys that hit far harder than breidis? I don’t see him having success at HW at all if he did move up.

The biggest/best fight for him is beterbiev but is he gonna put on nearly 2 stone to fight Opetaia? Probably not in all honesty. Unfortunately for jai I Think he’s gonna be stuck fighting at CW or Bridger. Weight classes that most don’t really care about
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It's a very interesting point. It seems like cruiserweight for some reason just doesn't get that much attention. It's either LHW or HW that everyone wants to see. Most of the big names would have to move up to fight him, and the HWs sure aren't going to move down.
 
mommas homeboy said:
It's a very interesting point. It seems like cruiserweight for some reason just doesn't get that much attention. It's either LHW or HW that everyone wants to see. Most of the big names would have to move up to fight him, and the HWs sure aren't going to move down.
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Historically it hasn't but cruiser received a fair bit of international attention several years ago. It was the only weight class to be featured in back-to-back Super Series tournaments. Winner was awarded the Ali trophy & received $10 million in prize money.
 
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as someone mentioned above, he took an absolute fucking beating in one of his fight i watched, and while he won the fight, he cant take that sort of punishment against the big boys, especially with the likes of Dubois, Bakole and Parker knocking about who are all pretty active and hard hitting guys

also, outside of breidis, who was the guy who battered him, he hasnt really fought decent opposition, like to see him unify his division before he moves up, i actually think the best cruiserweights are a division below that weight
 
Apart from an old Breidis he has fought nobody, literally cab drivers including his next fight so we still don't even know how good he is. Apparently his resume and continual bum fights is immune from criticism.
 
Roids said:
Apart from an old Breidis he has fought nobody, literally cab drivers including his next fight so we still don't even know how good he is. Apparently his resume and continual bum fights is immune from criticism.
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Who should he fight then?
 
mommas homeboy said:
It's a very interesting point. It seems like cruiserweight for some reason just doesn't get that much attention. It's either LHW or HW that everyone wants to see. Most of the big names would have to move up to fight him, and the HWs sure aren't going to move down.
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Opetaia is in a difficult position because of the big weight differences between LHW - CW, and CW-HW. He’s a little too big for LHW, too small for HW. Beterbiev has a similar problem in some ways. A great fighter that may only ever win titles in one weight class
 
Roids said:
How about someone in the top 10 of the division? I don't think he has ever done that apart from Breidis.
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Are you suggesting he's ducking other top ten CWs? There's not fucking way. He wants all the belts and all the glory. He's ready, waiting, and wanting to fight the other top guys in his division.
 
mommas homeboy said:
Are you suggesting he's ducking other top ten CWs? There's not fucking way. He wants all the belts and all the glory. He's ready, waiting, and wanting to fight the other top guys in his division.
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Im stating as a fact he isn't fighting anyone in the top ten and is a can crusher. You think the whole top 10 is ducking him, ok cool. I doubt you are as consistent towards other can crushers.
 
Roids said:
Im stating as a fact he isn't fighting anyone in the top ten and is a can crusher. You think the whole top 10 is ducking him, ok cool. I doubt you are as consistent towards other can crushers.
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I have no idea if other top tens are ducking him. Are they? Or is there reason to believe he's ducking them? It sure doesn't seem like he's trying to avoid fighting the best.

He's not trying to fight guys like Mikaelian or Ramirez? If there's evidence that he's ducking top ranked guys then that's news to me.
 
mommas homeboy said:
I have no idea if other top tens are ducking him. Are they? Or is there reason to believe he's ducking them? It sure doesn't seem like he's trying to avoid fighting the best.

He's not trying to fight guys like Mikaelian or Ramirez? If there's evidence that he's ducking top ranked guys then that's news to me.
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I don't think he's ducking I think it's just bad management and not putting in enough effort to fight top 10 guys plus a few prob ducking him. Either way there is no excuse for fighting cans for so long. People give him a pass because of Breidis but that has expired. He also ducked the Breidis rematch immediately and got stripped.
 
Roids said:
Im stating as a fact he isn't fighting anyone in the top ten and is a can crusher. You think the whole top 10 is ducking him, ok cool. I doubt you are as consistent towards other can crushers.
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CBD ducked him, Riakphore ducked him. Doesnt help
 
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