Jai Opetaia net worth as the IBF and Ring world champion


Jai Opetaia net worth originates from boxing. He is an Australian professional boxer. Most notably, he is the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and Ring Magazine Cruiserweight World Champion with 28 wins, and 22 technical knockouts out of the total wins as of 2025.

Jai Opetaia net worth

Jai Opetaia net worth information is not publicly available. However, his income derives from winning boxing purses, brand partnerships and other personal ventures.

Boxing career highlights

He first competed in the Junior World Championships light heavyweight division in 2011 and bagged the gold medal. As a result, he became the first Australian to win a junior boxing world championship. 

The following year, he competed in the 2012 Australian Olympic in the heavyweight division and won a gold medal.
He also won in the heavyweight division at the Oceania Olympic. This led to him becoming the youngest boxer to ever make it to an Australian Olympic team. 

Afterwards, he won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the heavyweight division.

Professional boxing

To begin with, he won the first fight against Daniel Ammann with a technical knockout in the ninth round at the World Boxing Council (WBC)-Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF), cruiserweight titles in July 2017.

After that, he won against Frankie Lopez with a technical knockout (TKO) in the first round at the IBF Youth cruiserweight title medal.

At the Australian Cruiserweight title match, he won with a TKO in the third round against Benjamin Kelleher in January 2018.
Jai Opetaia won the WBO Asia-Pacific cruiserweight title after a second round TKO against Lukas Paszkowsky in April 2018.

He also won the WBO Asia-Pacific cruiserweight title in June 2018 against Kurtis Pegoraro with a TKO in the 2nd round. 

Additionally, he won the WBA Oceania interim cruiserweight title against Navosa Loata in May 2019.

At the WBO Global cruiserweight title match, he competed against Nikolas Charalampous and won by unanimous decision in July 2019.

Next, he won the IBF Asia-Oceania cruiserweight title by a TKO in the eighth round against Mark Flanagan in November 2019.

In October 2020, he defended his IBF Asia-Oceania and WBO Global cruiserweight titles and came out victorious. 

Later on, he challenged the then IBF cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis and won by unanimous decision.

In September 2023, he defended his IBF cruiserweight title against Jordan Thompson and won by fourth round TKO. 

Later on, he defended his IBF cruiserweight title again, this time against Ellis Zorro. He won by a first round TKO.

In May 2024, at the IBF cruiserweight championship, he won by unanimous decision against Mairis Briedis. Most importantly, he became a two-time world champion and two-time IBF cruiserweight champion.

In October 2024, he defended his IBF title against Jack Massey and came out victorious through sixth round stoppage. He also defended the same title again in January 2025 against David Nyika and won by a fourth round TKO. 

Again, he defended his title against Claudio Squeo in May 2025 and won by a fifth round TKO.

Overall, as of September 2025, he has had 28 fights and won all of them. Out of the 28 matches, 22 were by TKO and 6 by unanimous decision.

Summary of Jai Opetaia net worth

To sum up, Jai Opetaia’s net worth has been built from a passionate and determined ongoing professional boxing career. From his record, he is set to win more boxing championships in the future.

Featured image: Jai Opetaia on Instagram

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