Twelve for Twelve: Teremoana Headlines Melbourne Against Hemi Ahio on Nov. 18

Matchroom is heading back Down Under, and it's bringing its biggest Australian puncher with it. It's a busy stretch for Aussie boxing, too, with Tszyu-Lara now locked in for late November.

Undefeated heavyweight Teremoana Teremoana will headline against New Zealand's Hemi Ahio on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the Pullman Melbourne Albert Park. Matchroom announced the fight Wednesday. In Australia it airs on Fox Sports and Kayo Sports, and Matchroom's social posts also list DAZN.

The number that matters with Teremoana is the one that never changes. He's 12-0, and every one of those wins came by knockout. The Paris 2024 Olympian signed with Matchroom and Tasman Fighters after the Games, and since then the fights have mostly been short. His last one, in August on the Gold Coast, ended in the second round against DeAndre Savage. Nobody has made it out of round two with him yet. "I'm really annoyed that these fellas can't carry on," Teremoana told Kayo Sports that night.

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Ahio is a different kind of test. He's 25-1 with 19 stoppages and once held the WBC Middle East heavyweight belt. He's been around: Auckland, Melbourne, Perth, Dubai, Jeddah, even Salt Lake City. That's the kind of road résumé that can teach a young heavyweight something about a fight that goes past the first few minutes.

Both men are talking like it won't.

"I respect what he's achieved but he shouldn't have taken this fight," Teremoana said in the Matchroom release. He said he has five more weeks of camp and plans to "show the difference in levels."

Ahio, who goes by "The Heat," says he's in the best shape of his career. "There's going to be fireworks, and we will both be dropping big bombs," he said. "I'm ready to throw down with the big man."

Eddie Hearn went even bigger, calling Teremoana "the country's most destructive fighter" and predicting a future world title. "He must close out this year with another big statement," Hearn said, "but he'll need to be at his best as Hemi Ahio is a very dangerous operator with plenty of experience."

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Promoters say "future world champion" a lot. With a 6-foot-6 heavyweight who keeps ending fights early, it's at least easy to see why Hearn keeps saying it. The question is the same one every unbeaten big man has to answer eventually: what happens when the other guy takes the first big shot and keeps coming? Ahio has stopped 19 men himself, so he's not there to survive.

The undercard has some local flavor:

• Mitch Leek (14-0, 8 KOs), the unbeaten former IBF World Youth champion, challenges Joel "Camo KO" Camilleri (31-8, 15 KOs) for Camilleri's WBA Oceania middleweight title.
• Melbourne's Ky Hodgson faces Victor Adis-Iosifidis (3-1, 1 KO) for the vacant Australian super welterweight title.
• Unbeaten 21-year-old Omar El-Abdallah (6-0, 5 KOs) meets Lilo Telepe (6-1, 6 KOs) at middleweight.

Nobody has seen round three against Teremoana yet. Is Ahio the first to drag him past round two, or does he turn the tables? That's a Guess the Rounds pick if I ever saw one.

Sources

• Matchroom Boxing press release (Oct. 14, 2026)
• Matchroom Boxing on X
• ESPN (Aug. 12, 2026)