The Australian boxer defended his IBF title in style and the Saudi empresario thinks that he can be the next megafight opponent for Oleksandr Usyk.

Jai Opetaia retained his IBF cruiserweight title Wednesday with a spectacular fourth-round KO of David Nyika in Gold Coast, Australia.

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA – The entertaining contest between IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia and David Nyika represented the first big fight of 2025, and also concluded with what is certain to be remembered as one of the knockouts of the year.

Australia’s best boxer Jai Opetaia left his opponent on the canvas for several minutes following a devastating knockout Gold Coast on Wednesday night, after which promoter Eddie Hearn suggested he could fight Oleksandr Usyk next year.

Jai Opetaia stopped David Nyika with a vicious knockout on Wednesday, retaining the IBF cruiserweight title on home soil in Australia. Opetaia stopped the New Zealander in round four, landing a series of shots with Nyika stuck against the ropes and putting the challenger down and out with a brutal left hook.

Jai Opetaia is on a hot streak, and David Nyika is the latest challenger to fall to the Australian’s heavy hands. At a boxing event in Gold Coast, Australia, on Tuesday, Opetaia successfully defended his IBF cruiserweight title with a brutal fourth-round knockout of the previously undefeated David Nyika.