“Boxing at the level I’ve boxed at and seeing what I see I don’t think he [Opetaia]’s ever looked invincible,” said Billam-Smith. “I think he’s looked very very very good and no one could doubt his talent, but no one’s invincible and I think he’s shown that a few times. “David Nyika hurt him. He’s been hurt a few times. Cinkara obviously hurt him, but that fight was always gonna go like that. I spoke to [BoxingScene’s] Dec Warrington about it and he said, ‘Can you give me a prediction?’ I said, ‘It’s a four-round fight for Cinkara and after that I think Opetaia will stop him I think six to eight.’ [It was over in the eighth]. So you couldn’t get that much more spot on. But Cinkara’s a hard night for anyone. People look at his age and they look at these wins and stuff but he’s got freakish punch power and his style is really weird. He’s really awkward and he’s a bit wild, so he’s going to cause anyone problems and he caused Opetaia problems. That, to me, is kind of like I expected it to happen, so it’s not like, ‘Oh wow, maybe Opetaia can be beat.’ Of course he can be beat. He’s a human being.”
