The anonymous puncher David Nyika New Zealand after a day suddenly became a celebrity for an unfinished reason. He did not have too many difficulties to defeat Youness Baalla, the Morocco boxer in the boxing qualifier. But the most notable thing does not belong to the score of 5-0 belongs to Nyika.
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On the Kokugikan arena, the Nyika heavy fist constantly made the opponent fall into suffering in the first two rounds. The wind punches at his fast speed made Baalla unable to access. Losing his temper for losing with too big gap, Baalla was angry and tried to play badly.
Taking advantage of the referee did not observe clearly when the two punches were close to each other, Baalla sneaked at the head near Nyika's ear and “bite” one. Phat bite made Nyika painful, startled and temporarily retreated for a few minutes. However, the New Zealand puncher still maintained his performance and won the final.
It is rare to see in a match that the winner is more upset than the defeat after this match. At the end of the fifth match, Nyika interviewed with the media and angrily said: “Do you see it? I think the referee does not see even though at that time standing very close to the situation.”
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Painful because he was bitten in his ears, but Nyika said he still felt … lucky. The reason is because Baalla has a tooth protection pad, and that reduces the biting force quite a lot by slippery sweat. “But I still can't accept it. I was bitten into my chest at the Games of the Sports, but this is the Olympic, who did it!”.
The “crane” Baalla for Nyika seemed to be inspired by the classic confrontation between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield in 1997. “Steel boxer” that day bite off the side of Holyfield's ear cartilage, causing the suffering of the owner to be teased sometimes still teased because of that.