Jai Opetaia looked and sounded angry when he came face to face with challenger David Nyika on Saturday to discuss their January 8 fight. From the start, Opetaia looked in a bad mood, as if he’d gotten up from the wrong side of the bed in the morning.

His petulant mood worsened when Nika didn’t flinch, show fear, or grovel as expected.

Oppetaya’s anger exposed

Opetaia wanted him to back down and be submissive, but he wouldn’t. Jai wishes to control and dominate Nyika during their meeting.

This shows how unsafe Opetaia is. He clearly has a habit of intimidating his opponents into submission so that he can dominate them when they take the field.

IBF lightweight champion Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) was excited when he learned that Nikka (10-0, 9 KOs) wanted to have a “shootout” with him on Wednesday night.

Opetaia, 29, said he wants a 12-round “war” with the 6-foot-6 Nika, who he believes he can knock out. The two boxers will meet at the Gold Coast Convention Center in Broadbeach, Australia. The event will be broadcast live on DAZN.

“Sparring is sparring. I’m ready for the fight on April 10. Don’t worry about sparring. It’s a completely different fight,” said Jai Opetaia dazeen boxing David Nika.

“I feel like I’ve done everything I need to do. I feel like I know Jai very well. It’s the heavy head that wears the crown. I’ve been following Jai for a long time,” Nyika said.

“I knew I could knock him out. I knew I could hurt him,” Opetaia said. “These little gloves are a dangerous game. You want to have a shootout. Let’s have a shootout. I know it’s not going to be a shootout. He’s going to box. He doesn’t want to get hit. It’s going to be a shootout. Chess game.

“So, let’s go out there and play. 12-round war. I’m ready. You said you were ready for me. I’m ready for anybody. I don’t have a goal for anybody. I just train. I focus on myself; that’s it. There’s no one I imagine I want to beat or beat him with,” Opetaia said.

Will Obadiah freeze again?

Jai talks big, but he’s not engaging in any war in his May 18 rematch with Mairis Briedis. Opetaia looked like someone suffering from severe combat stress. He collapsed and froze in the final six rounds as he came under constant bombardment by Latvian fighters.

Briedis dominated the second half and did enough to deserve the draw. The referee awarded it to Opetaia but it should have been a draw. That’s why it’s strange that Opetaia talks about going to “war” with Nika; he doesn’t fare well in this situation. Where Opetaia excels is when his opponent isn’t throwing the ball, he runs all the offense. When it’s just him throwing, he’s good.

“I beat myself every day. I get hurt and sacrifice every day, and I’m ready,” Oppetaya said.

“It sounds like you haven’t done your homework,” Nika said when asked what he thought when he heard Opetaia talk about him, knowing he was going to knock him out. “It seems practice doesn’t make perfect.

“I’ve practiced, I’ve studied, and I’ve gathered my intelligence. This is not a sport that you can just play with a game plan. I have a game plan from start to finish,” Nika said.

As Nika finished those words, Opetaia looked furious and frustrated that he had someone who didn’t bow to him like so many of the second-tier fighters he set records with, scraping the floor like a servant. and.