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‘Jaws’ Suarez gets an earful from bite victim Evander Holyfield

Uruguay striker Luis Suarez sparked a Twitter storm with his World Cup bite scandal, from pictures of him with a muzzle to a reaction from once-bitten boxing legend Evander Holyfield.

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Mike Tyson takes a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear during the third round of the WBA Heavyweight Championship fight in Las Vegas in 1997. Photo: Reuters
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Uruguay striker Luis Suarez sparked a Twitter storm with his World Cup bite scandal, from pictures of him with a muzzle to a reaction from once-bitten boxing legend Evander Holyfield.

I guess any part of the body is up for eating
Evander Holyfield

Uruguay’s 1-0 victory over Italy on Tuesday, which qualified them to the second round at the European team’s expense, was overshadowed by allegations Suarez got away with biting defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder.

“I guess any part of the body is up for eating,” wrote Holyfield, whose ear was partly chomped off by rival Mike Tyson in a 1997 heavyweight fight.

Other social media users published photo montages of the Liverpool forward, who had been sanctioned twice before for biting players in the Netherlands and England.

 
Post by Sharam.

One picture shows him with the mask of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional, cannibalistic serial killer portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.”

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In another movie meme, Suarez replaced the shark in an old poster of the movie Jaws with the comment: “Someone call Steven Spielberg.”

Others have him sporting a dog’s flea collar and many more with vampire fangs, or as part of the cast of the zombie television show Walking Dead.

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The incident made the front page of the New York Times web site, while the Huffington Post’s British version used the headline “Chewy Luis and the Blues.”

 
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