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At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on the 1st, China’s Tang Jing bit down on the sleeve of Maeda Rin’s judogi during a ground-fighting exchange in the women’s 70kg quarterfinal, resulting in a loss by disqualification. Clear teeth marks were left near Maeda’s left wrist, visible in the U-NEXT broadcast footage of the match. On 5ch, posters repeatedly brought up Mike Tyson’s infamous ear-biting incident and soccer’s Luis Suárez, while other comments debated judo’s rules and the dynamics of ground fighting.
Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games
At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on the 1st, the women’s 70kg judo quarterfinal saw Maeda Rin defeat Tang Jing (China). Her opponent appeared to bite Maeda’s judogi, leaving clear teeth marks near her left wrist. Tang Jing, disqualified for the foul, looked unconvinced by the call.
After Maeda took the fight to the ground, Tang Jing apparently tried to fend off the attack by biting the left sleeve of her judogi. Play was stopped, and Maeda showed her left hand to the referee to claim she’d been bitten. The U-NEXT broadcast of the match also captured the clear teeth marks left near her left wrist.
Source: news.jp / Original article here
What people said
Start doing that and you're just an animal.
There was a guy nicknamed "Biting Suárez," you know
She's got a total "whyyy?" face lol
What's going on there
People would just bite their way out of armbars and triangle chokes
I mean, same with Suárez,
but the one doing the biting
can end up wrecking their own teeth too
That's alllll!!! (an old Japanese TV catchphrase)
I bet the guy behind that line has probably passed on by now…
Jaw strength is no joke
Jaw strength is actually stronger than grip strength — but it's also a weak point
The jaw is the only bone in the human body that's just structurally hanging there
Dude's insanely slippery
A master of the Poison Fang Fist style, huh lol
"When food and clothing are sufficient, one learns courtesy" is originally a Chinese proverb, and yet…
Background and Key Points
Biting has long been designated a strict “prohibited act” in judo — it results in an immediate loss by disqualification (with the opponent winning by default) regardless of scoring or technique, a serious foul handled separately from accumulated shido (penalty) warnings. This isn’t a special rule invented for this one case. The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games is being held in Japan in autumn 2026, and this match took place during that event. On the thread, many posters drew comparisons to Mike Tyson’s ear-biting incident and soccer’s Luis Suárez, drawing reactions from both combat-sports and ball-sports fans alike. That said, no official explanation of exactly how or why the biting happened has been given yet, so further reports are worth watching for. Some posts speculating baselessly about nationality have been excluded from this writeup.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisokuhō+) thread “[Asian Games/Judo] Chinese athlete disqualified in shocking foul — bites down on Maeda Rin, clear teeth marks… Women’s 70kg.”
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