If you can’t beat them, eat them.

Mike Tyson remains the poster boy for boxing bites, but this past weekend, Kash Ali also got in on the action. During his all-British heavyweight bout against David Price in Liverpool, Ali tackled his opponent to the ground and then munched on his torso.

Price alleges that Ali was actually biting him throughout the fight, although it was the fifth-round incident that led to the disqualification.

Before we go to the footage, here’s Boxing Scene:

The British Boxing Board of Control has announced that Ali’s boxing license has been suspended pending a hearing. Ali was disqualified for biting David Price during Saturday’s heavyweight bout…

Ali will be called before the BBBofC [British Boxing Board of Control] for a hearing and he is expected to face a hefty fine and a ban from the sport…

Ali was pelted with drinks from the angry crowd inside the M&S Bank Arena as security rushed him away.

“Before the fight he was like a lunatic looking across the ring at me. From early on he was throwing the head in and trying to bite me,” Price told MTK Global…

“I hit him with a left to the body and he winced, then fell on top of me and bit me. He had already bit me earlier in the fight and was looking for a way out.”

That way out was sinking his teeth into Price, and forcing the referee to disqualify him:

Here’s another angle:

ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!! I repeat Kash Ali should never be allowed in a boxing ring again absolutely discussing disqualified for biting David Price pic.twitter.com/QiintDp1ju

— MR FRANKIE KNUCKLES (@Frank__knuckles) March 30, 2019

Not your best work, Kash.

I suppose, for a point of comparison, we should see that Tyson bite one more time:

He really commits at the one-minute mark, there. I’m giving the battle of the biters to Tyson.

According to talkSPORT, Ali blamed the biting on his ‘street mentality’:

“I had him hurt in the fifth, I could have stopped him, which I would have. We ended up wrestling down anyway and it was a stupid thing what I did, ridiculous. There’s no excuses for it.

“I think just the build-up to the fight- It’s my first time boxing on a big stage, I was so pumped up I just wanted to fight. The street mentality just kicked in, it was stupid.

“As mad as it sounds, when I ended up on top of him, boxing went out the window.

“I just thought, ‘This is a fight now.’ Stupid. I’ve got nothing else to say, just it was out of order and I apologise to him.”

Well, the apology is a good start.

Stick to punching people in the head in the name of sport, guys.

[sources:boxingscene&talksport]