{"id":29290,"date":"2025-07-29T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29290\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:08:07","slug":"boxing-floyd-masson-keen-on-future-fight-against-david-nyika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29290\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Floyd Masson keen on future fight against David Nyika"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nyika, a former world title contender and Olympic bronze medallist, just clocked up a win against Nikolas Charalampous in Australia on the Sonny Bill Williams-Paul Gallen undercard.<\/p>\n

Masson and Nyika know each other well, being boxers who grew up together in the amateur boxing scene in Waikato. Both now live and train in Australia.<\/p>\n

The two almost faced each other in September 2024 when Nyika was scheduled to fight Blake Caparello.<\/p>\n

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However, Caparello failed a drug test and Nyika needed a new opponent.<\/p>\n

Masson was one of the potential replacements, but Nyika ended up fighting American boxer Tommy Karpency.<\/p>\n

If Masson and Nyika end up facing each other in the future, Masson said he wanted the fight to happen on their old stomping ground.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Nyika before his fight against Nik Charalampous. Photo \/ Alyse Wright<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a fight to happen in New Zealand, I reckon, especially back in the Waikato,\u201d Masson said.<\/p>\n

If the two face off, it could be one of the biggest fights for the Waikato boxing scene since David Tua-Shane Cameron in Hamilton in 2009.<\/p>\n

Nyika and his team have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n

The Floyd Masson-John Parker IBF Pan Pacific Cruiserweight Title fight is tomorrow at Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia.<\/p>\n

Other New Zealanders on the card include Whanganui-born Jahzia Puohotaua who will take on Jack Gregory, Christchurch-born Frank Amato who will take on Levin-born Jeremiah Tupai-Ui and Whangaparaoa fighter Marcus Heywood who will take on Cullan Peters.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Watt is a retired boxing judge and New Zealand boxing writer with a decade of experience. Watt has also been BoxRec\u2019s New Zealand record-keeper since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nyika, a former world title contender and Olympic bronze medallist, just clocked up a win against Nikolas Charalampous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[1914,27859,64,63,16485,802,13478,1913,27854,21503,27860,27858,5585,27856,27855,27857,2652,10805,1917,22553,85,7570,16484],"class_list":["post-29290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-against","tag-already","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-david","tag-fight","tag-floyd","tag-future","tag-hinted","tag-however","tag-john","tag-keen","tag-masson","tag-nyika","tag-on","tag-parker","tag-plans","tag-preparing","tag-sports","tag-tomorrow","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}