{"id":22576,"date":"2013-09-12T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/penis-bite-reportedly-lands-watts-eight-match-ban\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:19:33","slug":"penis-bite-reportedly-lands-watts-eight-match-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/penis-bite-reportedly-lands-watts-eight-match-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Penis bite reportedly lands Watts eight-match ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=16430\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16430\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16430 \" alt=\"Anthony Watts was convicted of affray for another offence earlier this year. Photo: Lee Besford \/ AAP Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6f0c1_anthony-watts-008.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Watts was convicted of affray for another offence earlier this year. Photo: Lee Besford \/ AAP Image<\/p>\n<p>Ex-NRL player Anthony Watts has reportedly been handed an eight-match ban for biting an opponent\u2019s penis during a local rugby league final on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Watts faced a Gold Coast-Tweed Rugby League judiciary hearing on Tuesday night on a contrary conduct charge.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Sydney Rooster and North Queensland player was accused of biting a rival player during the Tugun Seahawks\u2019 preliminary final win over Bilambil Jets on September 1.<\/p>\n<p>News Corp Australia says Watts has been banned for eight matches after being found guilty of the offence, and reports his lawyer Mark Williams had confirmed the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage of the incident shows the Jets player reeling away in pain after clashing with Watts near the goal line.<\/p>\n<p>He then quickly pulled down his shorts to show the damage to a referee who immediately placed Watts on report.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Rugby League is expected to make a statement on the incident on Wednesday. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Rugby news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/category\/sports\/rugby\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6f0c1_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Watts was convicted of affray for another offence earlier this year. Photo: Lee Besford \/ AAP Image Ex-NRL player Anthony Watts has reportedly been handed an eight-match ban for biting an opponent\u2019s penis during a local rugby league final on the Gold Coast. Watts faced a Gold Coast-Tweed Rugby League judiciary hearing on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}