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Dereck Chisora (L) is punched by retired boxer David Haye (R)
Updated at 7:20 a.m. ET: Police have detained British heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora following his brawl with former WBA champion David Haye at a post-fight press conference on Saturday night.
Police spokesman Gottfried Schlicht told The Associated Press that Chisora and his coach were detained at Munich airport and were being questioned.
Schlicht said police are still looking for Haye, who wasn't at his hotel and "we don't know where he is."
The brawl occurred during a news conference after Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight belt, scoring a unanimous points decision over challenger Chisora in Munich's Olympic Hall.
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Haye, who had been working as a television pundit, became agitated by comments made by Klitschko's manager, Bernd Boente, and began to heckle from the back of the conference.
That escalated until Chisora finally grabbed a microphone and stepped down from the main table into the media seating area to confront Haye.
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Dereck Chisora (L) of Great Britain talks with a bloodied David Haye's manager Adam Booth (R) after a brawl between Chisora and Haye on Saturday night.
Haye's manager Booth suffered a cut above his eye following the scuffle, thought to be caused by a camera tripod knocked over in the melee.
The whole incident took place in front of dozens of cameras, and can be seen in this uncensored YouTube clip, uploaded by sports website bokser.org, which contains audible bad language throughout.
"I'm totally disappointed, it went a little too far, the sport of boxing shouldn't be like that," Klitschko told the BBC after watching the fight.
The BBC reported that Chisora allegedly threatened to shoot Haye follwing the incident. It said Chisora accused Haye of "glassing him", before saying at least four times that he would shoot Haye, adding: "If David don't fight me, I am going to physically burn him."
Reuters, NBC Sports and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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So what the hell are the police wasting time investigating for??? Let'em settle this crap in the ring!!!
yeah whats the diff its ok to fight in the ring but not out are there barriers above the law at the ring go after the wrestlers ha
To the media:
This should be on the local 'police blotter' and local news, but not in the international news.
There are more important issues internationally than a 'boxer' brawl.
1. Plain ole boxing really has become boring compared MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). Not surprised that boxing must resort to theatrics to get attention.
2. If the police are also participating in the theatrics, what's that say about the integrity of the police?
All the beer bottles on the podium and carried by seemingly everybody in the venue probably didn't help. How far "The Sweet Science" has fallen.
We cheer for boxers to pound each others' brains to mush, and then we wonder why they act like this outside of the ring?
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With freedom comes responsibility
this chit happens on most talk shows no 1 goes to jail for it...kiss my asssss usa government ,,,don;t vote sends a big message to the crooks...
Norm, this incident did not occur in the USA.
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When keeping it real goes bad!
God amighty, first we have news like this (the reason I seldom pay any attention at all to sports, especially the combative variety), then we have some benighted character suggest the "mixed martial arts" sideshow as an alternative! Why not go all the way and make all sports sideshows - professional wrestling, for instance? Since the rise of feminism that has effectively castrated the nation, and postmodernism that has taught and convinced us all that everyone has his own truth (does anybody ever think - actually cogitate - about these things anymore?), the decline and fall of the nation into scum-sucking decadence has accelerated like an avalanche downhill.
Why, how - except for feminist postmodernism, of course - men came to believe that acting like an undisciplined, puerile or effeminate (once, it was only women who behaved like this, you know) clown somehow made them look more male is hard to understand. The male who built his nation to the greatest in human history didn't brawl ("rumble"), streetfight (jump from ambush, sneak punch or kick, or prey upon someone obviously weaker), or act like morons (how much brain does it take to spit on someone - in front of a national audience?). Men didn't act like women or boys, in other words.
The human race has always made me sick when forced to recognize myself as one of them; now we've added the shame of having to be recognized by my fellow humans as "male." I can remember, you see, when the term "man" denoted much more than gender.
Poor Hal, nothing's been quite right since we lost Hemingway, has it?
Well organized ploy for free advertising .
A Ukrainian World Heavy Weight Champion? When did Eastern Europeans start dominating this sport??
As to the rest of the story, two boxers mixing it up at a public appearance? Who really cares.
Were you born yesterday? Klitschko is WBC Heavy Weight Champion from 12 October 2008
Hello, glad you woke up from a long hibernation. Read up on the past ten years or so.
You're right. I haven't been following boxing over the last 10 years.
It had always been dominated by American boxers, primarily Black and Hispanic.
I guess not all Eastern Europeans are slow-footed; just the ones who play basketball.
Like the Lithuanians who beat the "Dream Team".
Shouldn't the headline be 'Boxing ends in fight, shock!'.
So Pathetic total loser