Jay Opetaia looked and sounded angry during his face-to-face meeting with challenger David Nyika on Saturday to discuss their January 8 fight. From the start, Opetaya looked as if he had gotten up from the wrong side of the bed in the morning.
His flustered mood worsened when Niika didn’t flinch, show fear, and behave in the servile manner he expected of him.
Opetaia’s Anger Exposed
Opetaia wanted to cower and act submissive, but he didn’t want that. Jai wanted to control and dominate Niika during their date.
It was a signal of how insecure Opetaja was. He’s clearly used to intimidating his opponents, forcing them into submission so he can dominate them until they enter the ring.
IBF cruiserweight champion Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) was upset when he was told Niika (10-0, 9 KOs) wanted to fight him on Wednesday night.
Opetaia, 29, said he wants a 12-round “war” with the 6’6″ Nick, and believes he will knock him out. The two fighters will meet at the Gold Coast Convention Center, Broadbeach, Australia. The event will be broadcast live on DAZN- in
“Sparring is sparring. I am ready to fight on April 10th. Don’t worry about sparring. It’s a whole different ball game,” Jay Opetaia said DAZN Boxing To David Niika.
“I feel like I did everything I needed to do.” I feel like I know Jai well enough. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. “I have been watching Jai for a long time,” said Niika.
“I know I can knock him out.” I know I can hurt him,” Opetaja said. “These little gloves are a dangerous game. You want to have a shootout. Let’s have a shootout. I know it won’t be a shootout. He will box. He doesn’t want to be hit. It will be a chess match.
“Well, let’s go there, let’s play.” 12 rounds of war. I’m ready for it. You say you’re ready for me. I am ready for anyone. I don’t have my goals before anyone else. I’m just training. I focus on myself; that’s it. “There’s nobody there that I imagine I want to beat or beat,” Opetaia said.
Will Obadiah freeze again?
Jai talks a lot, but did not participate in any part of the war in the rematch against Mairis Briedis on May 18. Opetaya looked like someone with severe battle stress. He fell apart when under constant bombardment from the Latvian fighter and froze in the last six rounds.
Briedis dominated the second half and did enough to deserve a draw. The referees gave it to Opetaj, but it should have been a draw. That is why it is strange that Opetaja talks about wanting to wage a “war” with Njika; he is not good in those conditions. Opetaia is good when his opponents don’t throw, and he does everything on offense. When only he throws, it’s good.
“I beat myself every day.” It hurts, I make sacrifices every day, I’m ready for it,” Opetaja said.
“That sounds like you haven’t done your homework,” Niika said when asked what goes through his mind when he hears Opetaia talking about him, knowing he’s going to knock him out. “It doesn’t seem like perfect practice makes perfect.”
“I practiced, researched and gathered my information. This is not the kind of sport you can go into with one game plan. I have a game plan from A to Z,” said Niika.
When Niika was saying all these things, Opetaia seemed to be in a fit of rage, very upset that he had someone who didn’t bow down to him and scrape the floor like a foot servant like many of the second rate fighters he built his record with.
