Jai Opetaia looked and sounded angry during his face-to-face with challenger David Niika on Saturday to discuss their January 8 fight. From the start, Opetaia looked like he was in a bad mood as if he had gotten up on the wrong side of the bed in the morning.
His frenzied mood worsened when Nyika didn’t flinch, show fear, and act in the servile manner she seemed to expect of him.
Opetaia’s anger was revealed
Opetaia wanted to cower and act submissive and she wouldn’t do it. Jai wanted to be in control and dominate Nyika during their meeting.
It was a sign of how insecure Opetaia is. He’s clearly used to intimidating his opponents, making them submissive so he can dominate them until they get in the ring.
IBF cruiserweight champion Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) got involved when he was told that Nyika (10-0, 9 KOs) wanted to have a “fight” with him on Wednesday night.
Opetaia, 29, said he wants a 12-round “war” with the 6’6 Nyika and believes he will knock him out. The two fighters will meet at the Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach, Australia. The event will be broadcast live on DAZN.
“Sparring is sparring. I am ready to fight on April 10th. Don’t worry about sparring. It’s a whole different ball game,” Jai Opetaia said DAZN Boxing to David Nyika.
“I feel like I’ve done what I had to do. I feel like I know Jai pretty well. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. I have had my eye on Jai for a long time,” said Nyika.
“I know I can knock him out. I know I can hurt him,” Opetaia said. “These little gloves are a dangerous game. You want to have a fight. Let’s have a fight. I know it’s not going to be a weapon. He’s going to box. He doesn’t want to be hit. It will be a chess match.
“Well, let’s go there, let’s play it. 12 rounds of war. I’m ready for it. You say you are prepared for me. I am prepared for anyone. I don’t have my goals on anyone. I’m just training. I focus on myself. this is it. There’s nobody out there that I can imagine wanting to beat or beat,” Opetaia said.
Jai talks a lot, but he was not involved in any part of the war in his rematch against Mairis Briedis on May 18th. Opetaia had the look of someone with a bad case of battle anxiety. It fell apart when it came under constant bombardment from the Latvian fighter and froze in the last six laps.
Briedis dominated the second half of the match and did enough to deserve a draw. The judges gave it to Opetaia, but it had to be a draw. That is why it is strange that Opetaia talks about wanting to go to “war” with Nyika. he is not good under these conditions. Where Opetaia is good is when his opponents don’t throw, and he does all the attacking. When it’s just him throwing, it’s fine.
“I do myself every day. I’m in pain, a sacrifice every day, I’m ready for it,” Opetaia said.
“Sounds like you haven’t done your homework,” Nyika said when asked what goes through his mind when he hears Opetaia talking about him, knowing she’s going to knock him out. “It doesn’t seem like perfect practice makes perfect.
“I’ve practiced, researched and gathered my knowledge. This is not the kind of sport where you can go in with a game plan. I have a game plan from A to Z,” Nyika said.
When Nyika was saying all these things, Opetaia looked angry, very upset at having someone who wouldn’t bow to him and scraped the floor like a foot servant like the many second rate fighters he had built his record. with.
