Wild Video: British Boxer Released After Cops Ask Questions Following Post-Fight Brawl With Foe
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British boxer Dereck Chisora arrives at London's Heathrow Airport from Munich , Germany, Sunday, Feb. 19 2012. British heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora was released Sunday after nearly seven hours of questioning by Munich police following his brawl with former WBA champion David Haye at a post-fight news conference. A black van carried the boxer and his coach, Don Charles, from police headquarters, speeding past assembled photographers. "He still faces a charge of simple assault but he is allowed to return to England for now," police spokesman Gottfried Schlicht told The Associated Press. (AP Photo)
MUNICH (AP) — British heavyweight Dereck Chisora was released after nearly seven hours of questioning by police Sunday following his loss in a title bout to Vitali Klitschko and brawl with former WBA champion David Haye at a post-fight news conference.
A black van carried the boxer and his coach, Don Charles, from police headquarters. Police spokesman Gottfried Schlicht told The Associated Press that Chisora could still face charges of causing grievous bodily harm.
Chisora and Charles were detained at Munich airport. Schlicht said police were still looking for Haye, who wasn’t at his hotel.
The Munich-based Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that Haye went straight to the airport after the brawl Saturday night and took a flight at dawn.
In the mayhem after the bout, Chisora was heard vowing to shoot Haye.
“I swear to God, David, I am going to shoot you. I am going to shoot you. I am going to physically shoot David Haye,” Chisora was heard yelling as he claimed that Haye hit him with a glass.
Chisora’s promoter, Frank Warren, called the brawl “ugly, horrible and disgraceful” but said it was not his boxer who threw the first punch.
Coach of David Haye, Adam Booth, left, bleeds from a cut on his head after getting involved in a brawl between British heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora and former WBA champion Haye during a press conference in Munich early Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Chisora and his coach Don Charles were detained at Munich airport on Sunday and taken in for questioning, police spokesman Gottfried Schlicht told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/dapd, Marianne Mueller)
“It was an embarrassment for British boxing,” Warren told Sky Sports News. “I would say they were total idiots.”
Chisora and Haye came to blows after Chisora’s defeat by unanimous decision to Klitschko in their WBC title fight.
Chisora taunted Haye about losing the WBA belt to Klitschko’s younger brother, Wladimir, last July, leading to a heated exchange before Chisora knocked a bottle out of Haye’s hand and they came to blows.
Haye also fought with members of Chisora’s entourage, and his coach, Adam Booth, was bleeding from a cut on his head.
Camera equipment went flying and reporters fled before security managed to separate the men and police arrived.
“You’ve really lost it this time,” Chisora told Haye.
The 40-year-old Klitschko beat Chisora in a bruising bout in which the Ukrainian claimed to have fought from the fourth round with only his right fist after injuring his left shoulder. Klitschko was examined in a Munich hospital Sunday and later reported a partially torn ligament in his left shoulder.
“I think we all heard excuses about a broken toe,” Chisora said before the brawl, referring to Haye’s claim after his defeat to Wladimir Klitschko in Germany last July.
Chisora found little support from the sellout crowd of 12,500 after slapping Vitali Klitschko’s face at the weigh-in Friday. The ill feelings continued when he spat water in Wladimir‘s face as his brother’s record was being called out before their bout.
“I wanted to knock him out, to be honest,” Vitali Klitschko said. “Such a cheek.”
Wladimir acted as a buffer as Chisora persisted in goading them.
Vitali was clearly incensed, but it took some time before he could assert control in the ring against the Briton’s aggressive approach. His greater reach and experience made the difference. The judges scored the bout 118-110, 118-110 and 119-111.
Chisora said he wanted a rematch, or a bout with Wladimir, who is now holder of the IBF and the minor WBO and IBO belts. The younger Klitschko is to fight next against Jean-Marc Mormeck of France on March 3 in Duesseldorf, Germany.
But the British fighter was not optimistic about a rematch.
“He won’t fight me again. I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t fight me either,” he said.
Klitschko improved his record to 44-2 (40 KOs) after what was perhaps the toughest bout he’s had since losing by technical knockout to Lennox Lewis in 2003.
The Zimbabwe-born Chisora dropped to 15-3 (9 KOs) after his third defeat in his last four fights, but he had the fans in Munich’s Olympiahalle worried as Klitschko appeared to tire from his relentless attacks. Sensing an upset, they chanted the Ukrainian’s name in the seventh round before Klitschko reasserted his dominance with precise blows.
Chisora was bleeding from the lip after the first round, but seemed more than capable of taking Klitschko’s multiple punches.
Klitschko eventually took control in the ninth round, catching Chisora with a huge right and seemingly picking his punches at will. Chisora was barely hanging on in the 10th.
“He tried it all, but apart from a few grazes I didn’t get anything more,” Klitschko said.
Chisora gave it everything he had in the 12th and final round as he sought a knockout. But Klitschko, knowing the work was already done, used his greater experience to safely see out the round and maintain the brothers’ dominance of the heavyweight division.
“I wanted to give him what he deserves,” Klitschko said. “It didn’t work out. Life is an interesting thing. Life is long. Who knows? Maybe we’ll meet some other day.”
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The Sergeant Major
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 5:54pmA little “wall to wall” counseling is an effective tool. Let these goons take their gloves off and finish this little respect problem. Boxing has no class, take a lesson from the UFC.
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 3:02pmDereck Chisora doesn’t appear to be a U.K. citizen. His hat has “African” colors as well as an Africa graphic, maybe his violent a $$ should be sent back to the mother continent.
Report Post »Cigar
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:18pmStand up boxing is such old hat.. The real fighters are in MMA… This would never happen at an MMA post fight.. Because the guys leave it all in the cage….
Report Post »Espada
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:30pm“Not long enough out of the tree.”
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:10amI say let those African english shot the african french and then turn their guns on the africa mexicans and then the African Mexicans can turn their guns on the african Chinese and then the African chinese can shoot the African japanese then give the African japanese bigger guns and they can go after the african Iraneins and then the jews will be free to go after the american Africans.
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 3:12pmMy feelings exactly :)
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:01amWhen did they let these primates down out of the trees?
Report Post »Wyratt
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:55amIs this the part where boxing becomes interesting again?
Report Post »caligulaboy
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:54amHilarious. Demonstration of how stupid and out of date the sport of boxing has become. Again two idiots arguing in a language they clearly don’t speak well. Can not only not understand any of it. But they look completely moronic. Love it!!! Glass me!!! Glass me!!! Glass me!!! His entourage has got nothing on my entourage!!! Hilarious!!!
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:51amAfrican Britons…. almost like African Americans..still can’t act like humans in public. Both should not be able to fight.
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:17pm“They” should be glad that England took them in. They are not humans, in my opinion.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:34amthese thugs are being chastised for fighting? I do not care about the details, I did read most of this. These guys fight for MONEY, ahem ‘professional’ fighters.
Put them in a military and send them off to war…
Report Post »( I know, this would insult most military establishments)
THE EQUALIZER
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:21amAt least these morons are african_britons
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:15amwow, so they are mouthy and disrespectful in in Great Briton also. Do they commit 64% of the rapes, 75% of amred robberies, 49% of murders over there like they do here?
Report Post »truelife
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 6:44amyou can dress these goons up but you cant take them out
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 5:41amIs it just me or do the Brititsh accents just make this video funny. I mean, there is nothing scary or intimidating in a British accent.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:08amWhen the British ruled the world they did so with a polite British accent.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:26amWhen did the word “shoot” become something that has to be bleeped out? Weird. And another thing; don’t assume that one of the parties has to be the good guy. In most of these kinds of cases, they’re both “bleep” holes.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:16amThey are both a couple of jerks. Why wasn’t they other idiot questioned by police too? I watched other videos and the fighter who was drinking absolutely punched Chisora while he had a bottle in his hand. Then later he hit his own guy (the dude in blue) in the head with a tripod.
Report Post »Scarybones
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:06amLoser.
Report Post »MonkeyBeagle
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:42amBet you some security guys will be fired after this… they were told to remove the guy over and over… shame. They have more video that actaully show the fight. and the “glassing” at http://tinyurl.com/8yk8gep no sportsmanship anymore.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:19amYeah that guy should have been removed when he started shootin off at the mouth but instead they let him go on and on and then it escalated. That dude was making threats and at the end you could hear other guys saying, “shhhh”, but it’s all on tape. What an idiot. Sore loser!
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:37amThats a long artical for a non story.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:41amYup.
Report Post »FugMan
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:22amlol. He Glassed me! That other guy had it coming though.
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