CHRIS EUBANK JR admitted he BIT Liam Williams as hard as he could when their grudge match turned ugly.
The middleweight contender floored Welshman Williams FOUR times during the bitter domestic clash in Cardiff.
But Eubank Jr had to overcome some roughhouse tactics throughout the 12 round distance – so was forced to quite literally seek his teeth into it.
He said: “We knew he was going to come dirty, we knew he was going to try everything he could to take the fight to me.
“Whether it was in or out of the rules of boxing. But we dealt with it, I don’t complain.
“I’m upset that the referee didn’t take a point, at least one, during that fight for the amount of headlocks, headbutts and everything else that was going on.
“He was pushing his hand up against my face a couple of times. I actually had to bite him at one point.
“I’ve never bitten anybody in the ring before, I bit him. He put his arm around my neck and was squeezing my neck and hid glove was kind of close to my mouth.
“So, I just gave it a bite as hard as I could. I was like, ‘Look, if he’s going to fight dirty, I’m going to fight dirty’. It is what it is.”
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Eubank Jr had Williams not only down but on shaky legs several times throughout the first half of the fight.
But the son of English boxing legend Chris Sr claimed he refused to look for the KO and instead wanted to ‘punish’ his rival over a sustained period.
Eubank Jr said: “I am happy with the performance, I wanted to teach that man a lesson, he said some quite menacing things to me in the lead-up to this fight.
“I wanted to punish him – I didn’t want to knock him out in one round, I wanted to punish him.
“Headbutts, headloks, I am surprised he didn’t get disqualified. But I took it like a man and I punished him like I said I would.
“It was a fun night. I think I showed some of my critics a different side to me.
“There was no danger, if I had stepped on the gas at any point in the fight he would have been gone.
“There are levels to this game. Don’t be a big mouth against guys you can get hurt against.”
