Meanwhile, Bika, who flies to the United States this weekend in preparation for his IBO super-middleweight title fight against Peter Manfredo jnr on November 13, has fallen out with previous manager Angelo Hyder, with a sticking point the negotiation for a fight against world champion Anthony Mundine. Hyder says Bika rejected a $200,000 offer from Mundine to fight. "He was asking for $400,000. Every time I'd get him a fight he'd ask for double what was offered, after a while I just said I couldn't deal with it."
Bika claims there was never a firm offer on the table and that Mundine's manager, Khoder Nasser, refused to enter into any negotiation if Hyder was involved. Bika dropped Hyder as soon as his contract expired in June, along with co-manager Robert Burton. Boxing. The feeling between Bika and Hyder is now venomous. "He told everybody else but me that he was dropping me when the contract was up," Hyder said. "When he told me, I said, 'That's OK'. I held up a circle with my fingers and said, 'This is a zero, it's how much you had in your account before you signed with me'."
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