David Haye was desired for inquiring by German police on Sunday night after fight with colleague British heavyweight Dereck Chisora at the post-brawl press conference in an occasion that could guide to both boxers being disqualified for life time. Chisora was detained on Sunday morning by police at Munich Airport and was after some time freed without charge after being questioned about the unpleasant quarrel which brought British boxers into ill repute.
Haye, an ex world heavyweight champion, had in the interim gone to ground in the UK after escaping Munich early yesterday morning and was not available for any remark.
Though, Adam Booth, Haye’s instructor, said the retired fighter would obey with requests from the German officials to return to Munich for inquiring.
The squalid punch-up came after Chisora had hit the face of world champion rival Vitali Klitschko at the weigh-in, and fight water in the face of Wladimir Klitschko in the ring at the Olympiahalle minutes before the session, which was being telecasted in 150 countries.
The Daily Telegraph appreciates that the German Boxing Federation (BDB) is hunting a lifetime ban for both British fighters and has got in touch with the British Boxing Board of Control demanding that Chisora’s licence be canceled.
The panoramas of fighting exploded after warring words between Chisora, on the news conference platforms, and Haye, at the back of the press room. Chisora left the stage, come up to Haye and went nose-to-nose before coming out to push the past champion and start the fight which ended at least five minutes.
Haye come up to throw the first punch, while holding a bottle, and as the pair fought on the floor, knocking over cameras and stands, both entourages became involved in a scene of chaos witnessed by in excess of 150 news reporters who had filled into the room.
Haye then fought with Chisora’s coach, Don Charles, both men throwing punches, with Haye stimulating a camera stand and swinging it in front of him. Chisora screamed “I am going to fire you, I’m going to physically blaze you” at Haye while saying he had been “glassed”. The quarrel between the both left Haye’s manager, Adam Booth, with a facial cut.
Police were called to the scene and are considering tried provoked attack, which carries a maximum jail punishment of 10 years in Germany. Authorities went to Haye’s hotel early in the morning and were knocking on doors and inquiring guests in an attempt to search the past world heavyweight champion.
The German police officials had yesterday inquired footage of the incident from multitude telecasters RTL, though embarrassing videos of the fighting had gone viral on the internet.
Gottfried Schlicht, Munich police spokesman has said: “We don’t identify where Haye is. We want to talk to him about what occurred last night. We have to listen tow parts of the story. It’s not an allegation against David Haye. We have to details everything that took place. Maybe Haye has gone home. Then possibly we would speak to our associates in Great Britain.”
Booth told The Daily Telegraph on Sunday night: “We have not been got in touch or called by the German police. Certainly we would reply any questions, and would go to Germany to be discussed. We have nothing to escape from.”
Booth undisclosed that Haye, and his two colleague, had checked out of the Hilton Munich Park at around 2am, about quickly after the news conference. Both Haye and Chisora were staying at the same hotel.
“We left the news conference, and it would have been foolish to go back to the same hotel as Chisora and his crowd,” Booth said. “He had said he was going to attack David, and then yelled he was going to fire him and burn him. We determined to go to the airport and take an early flight home.
“What David did was a self-protective reaction. The man said he was going to hit him, walked 20 yards towards him, took his jacket off, went directly into a headbutt and pushed his fist into David’s chin. All was a self-protective from David.”
There had been discussed of Haye coming out of retirement to clash Vitali Klitschko this summer, but Booth added: “It’s over. They undoubtedly don’t would like to fight. It’s ended.”
Frank Warren, Chisora’s advertiser, said: “It was completely intolerable. I was actually in fact shocked that Dereck spat water at Wladimir Klitschko in the ring. That was unbelievable.
“Then he has a bit fight and it converts into a filthy scene that was fully intolerable from a boxing viewpoint, but makes you feel embarrassed to be British. It was like football hooliganism, just awful.”
Further he said: “Undoubtedly that Dereck did not hit the first punch, I don’t care what someone says. But it was all quarrel, and all pretty foolish. The whole thing was completely absurd.”
Wladimir Klitschko, who accepted he had been “nearby to losing willpower” when Chisora fight water in his face, issued a statement on Sunday night. He said: “I am stunned and extremely ashamed by the actions of Dereck Chisora and his squad over this past week. There has to be results for these type conflicts and they must never be tolerated by the boxing associations, the media, colleague boxers and boxing supporters.”
In the UK, the British Boxing Board of Control will start an inquiry, according to the governing body’s secretary Robert Smith.
“It was deeply disheartening and disgusting, really,” Smith said. “There will be an investigation, and I’ll be contacting the German boxing authorities, and the police. I’ve seen the recording and it doesn’t do the sport, or Britain, any good. It was like 'Brits abroad’.”
