David Nyika

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646 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #61 David Nyika: Chasing a Boxing World Title | 2x Commonwealth Gold & Olympic Medallist · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

And that was tough.

What did what what got you through it?

Um probably my dog at the time.

Uh like uh my friends, my family.

Um yeah, I just I I I think everybody felt a little bit of that during COVID.

Uh, you know, you like they they they moved the games and I didn't know where the where the future was.

Um but you know, I've I've overcome I've overcome everything.

Up to date.

So I'm just gonna yeah, still focusing on the way forward a the horizon.

And turning pro, when did you turn pro?

I think I had my uh first probe out on the Joseph Parker Junior Far under that was the one that yeah came to our our gym to do it.

Yeah, so that that was that was prior to the Olympics, so I managed to squeeze that one in.

Um and that yeah, great great card, great team.

Uh Duco have been looking out they've been looking after me since well before we had any uh official relationship.

But uh Higgins has always kind of been been in the in the in the back.

I was so happy with Dave was telling me.

So um I like the reason I went uh the reason I turned up in Gatton, uh it was that was that was actually all David Higgins, uh w when I think about it.

So he managed to get me on the trip over to Morecambe to train with Tyson Fury and Joseph Parker.

Uh so Tyson is exactly he's exactly who you think he is.

Like what you see on camera is exactly who and how he is.

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