Mike Tyson has leapt to the defence of
Luis Suarez following the Uruguay striker’s bite on Giorgio Chiellini at
the 2014 World Cup, Goal reports.
Suarez was handed a four-month worldwide
ban by Fifa after biting the defender during Uruguay’s Group D clash
with Italy a fortnight ago.
But former world heavyweight boxing
champion Tyson, who himself once infamously chewed off part of the ear
of Evander Holyfield during a title fight, has empathised with the
Liverpool striker.
“Suarez’s bite? I understand it. It was a
blackout moment which can happen at times,” Tyson replied during a
Q&A on social networking service Reddit.
“It was just one moment in which the competition can make the blood in your veins boil and it overpowers your rationality.
“Sometimes you become something that you are not.”
Tyson is regarded as one of the greatest
heavyweight boxers in history, and still holds the record as the sport’s
youngest ever champion in his weight category at the age of 20 years
and eight months.
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