Jai Opetaia won the inaugural Zuffa Boxing Cruiserweight title with a 12-round unimous decision over Brandon Glanton at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas.

In round six, Glanton was deducted a point for holding.

In round 11, Opetaia was deducted a point for holding.

Opetaia of Australia won by scores of 119-106 on all cards.

The bout was marred in controversy all week as Opetaia was seemingly stripped of his IBF title after the organization was on board with the sanctioning. The IBF made the decision late on Friday night, apparently feeling disrespected for the placement of their title bout during fight week activities.

Salas Stops Saracho in 8

Ricardo Salas stopped Jesus Saracho in round-eight of their scheduled 10-round welterweight bout.

Salas dominated and poured on the volume over the second half of the fight and the bout was stopped at 2:09 of round eight.

Salas is now 23-2 with 18 knockouts. Saracho falls to 16-3-2.

Rubio Gets Dropped Twice But Decisions Palma

Pablo Rubio Jr. was dropped two times in round three, but was able to comeback and out work Adan Palma and take an eight-round unanimous decision in a featherweight bout.

In round three, Palma was able to hurt and drop Rubio with a left hook along the ropes. Later in the round, it was a short right that put Rubio down again. Rubio was able to gather himself and begin landing volume for the remaining round and took the unanimous decision by scores of 77-73 twice and 76-74.

Rubio of Whittier, CA is 15-0. Palma is is 14-1.

Vlad Panin stopped Shinard Bunch in round nine of their 10-round welterweight bout.

Panin dominated the action and a big flurry caused a stoppage ay 2:29 of round nine.

Panin, 146.5 lbs of Las Vegas is 24-2 with 16 knockouts. Bunch, 147 lbs of Trenton, NJ is 22-4-1.

Joshua Juarez remained undefeated with an eight-round unanimous decision over Jardae Anderson in a heavyweight bout.

Juarez, 256 lbs of Laredo, TX won by scores of 79-73, 78-74 and 77-75 and is now 15-0. Anderson, 263 lbs of Davenport, IA is 11-2.

Jaycob Ramos and Ethan Perez battled to a six-round draw in a featherweight battle featuring fighters from the Lone Star State.

Each fighter landed 83 punches.

Ramos took a card 57-55 and two cards were even at 56-56.

Ramos, 126 lbs of Dallas is 4-1-1. Perez, 125.5 lbs of San Antonio is 8-0-1.

In round two, Perez dropped Ramos with a straight left to the chin. In round three, Ramos returned the favor by dropping Perez with a counter right,

In a battle of undefeated lightweights, Brady Ochoa and Adrian Serrano battled to a six-round majority draw.

Ochoa outlanded Serrano 105-104.

Ochoa took a card 58-56 while two cards were even at 57-57.

Ochoa, 134 lbs of Las Vegas is 9-0-1. Serrano, 135 lbs of Salinas, CA is 6-0-2.

Emiliano Alvarado remained undefeated with a six-round unanimous decision over Erick Rosado in a featherweight bout.

After a good first round from Rosado, Alvarado landed a perfect double left hook to the body and then head that put Rosado on his back.

Alvarado, 125.5 lbs of Coachella, CA won by scores of 59-54 on all cards and is now 11-0. Rosado, 1245 lbs of Santo Domingo, DR is 16-5.

August 4, 2025, Toppenish, WA – Maricela “La Diva” Cornejo, born and raised just down the road from Legends Casino Hotel and ranked No. 2 in the world by the World Boxing Association (WBA) and No. 7 by the World Boxing Council (WBC), will fight in front of hundreds of family and friends in a “Homecoming” on Friday, August 8.

Roy Jones Jr. will open the show with one of his favorites “Ya’ll Must’ve Forgot”. If you did happen to forget that track you can watch it here. He will then do a set during a fifteen-minute intermission between the third and fourth fights of the night. A grand finale will follow the final bout of the evening.

The Legends Casino Hotel doors open at 6 pm PT and THE SHOW begins at 7 pm PT / 10 pm ET. Tickets, price from $50, are available at the Legends Casino Hotel Gift Shop and at Ticketmaster here

Beginning at 10 pm ET, the complete event will be streamed live on our YouTube channel RJJBOXING as well as numerous boxing and combat and ROKU channels. Make sure to subscribe to RJJBOXING so as not to miss any lead up to the event.

Cornejo will battle Canadian Natasha “The Nightmare” Spence in a six-round middleweight bout. In the co-featured bout, local favorite Andrew Murphy will battle Jeremiah Sierra in an eight-round super middleweight bout. Also, Joshua Juarez in a six-round heavyweight bout against Oscar “Raton” Cortes; and Chris “The Hybrid” Young in a six-round lightweight bout against local product Derick Funkhouser; and opening the show will be a local junior middleweight scrap between Jovanis Rodgriguez and Alvin Welch.

“Looking forward to our show at Legends Casino Hotel, and the debut, for me, Maricela Cornejo who is a great fighter from the area and we are looking forward to having her on our card,” said Roy Jones Jr. “And once again, we have hometown, undefeated, all-action fighter Andrew Murphy who has never disappointed a crowd. One of my faves, Chris “The Hybrid” Jones, is back in the house, who when he came to me fought like Tyson, so I taught him a little Roy Jones Jr. and now he is a hybrid. It’s going to be an awesome night of boxing so whatever you do, don’t miss it.”

“And, just for sake, because you are such loyal fans I am going to add to the process, the RJJR Experience, you feel me? Body Head will be in the building. Be on the lookout.”

Maricela “La Diva” Cornejo (19-7, 7 KOs) was born in nearby Prosser and raised in Grandview, Washington, both just a thirty-minute drive from Legends. She made her professional debut in 2012 and in just her fifth bout, Maricela won the WBC International super middleweight title. In her following bout (fight #6) she traveled to New Zealand to fight for the WBC World Middleweight title but lost. After winning eight straight, Maricela fought for the WBC Super Middleweight title against Franchon Crews Duzern and one year later she fought a rematch against Crews Duzern this time for the WBO and WBA supermiddleweight beltsfinishing on the wrong side each time.  On June 3, 2023, Cornejo battled Claressa Shields for the Undisputed World Middleweight Championship – 5 belts on the line, but succumbed. In her last bout, August 10, 2024, she fought former Undisputed World Champion Cecilia Breakhus for the WBC Interim World Title. Maricela has since had a child and with a win will once again fight for a world title.

Cornejo said: “Beyond excited to fight in front of my hometown!! It has been a goal of mine to come back here where I grew up and have all my family be able to take a 30 min drive to watch me fight. Looking forward to putting on a great show come Aug 8^th.”

Natasha “The Nightmare” Spence (8-8, 6 KOs) and hails from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada and has been fighting professionally since 2010. She fought for, but lost, in a WBA and WBO super welterweight world title fight, in 2017.

Undefeated and the pride on Central Washington, Andrew Murphy (10-0, 7 KOs) is from nearby Yakima, a medium distance walk from Legends Casino Hotel. Murphy, fighting for the third time since shoulder surgery, is coming off an impressive seventh round knockout in April. He will battle fellow Washingtonian Jeremiah Sierra (4-2, 1 KO).

Chris Young (1-0, 1 KO) from Hattiesburg, Mississippi will fight in a six-round lightweight bout against Oregon’s Derick Funkhouser (0-1). “Chris Young is a hybrid,” said Jones. “How can you put Tyson and Jones together? He did, so don’t miss this fight.”

Opening the Show at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT will be local turf war between Tacoma, Washington’s Jovanis Rodriguez Pallares (1-0, 1 KO) against fellow Washington product Alvin Welch (0-1).

ROY JONES JR. was world champion at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight (undisputed) and in 2003 became the first former middleweight world champion to become world heavyweight champion in over 106 years when he beat John Ruiz to win the title. Throughout that stretch he was recognized as the No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world. He now trains over a dozen boxers.