Rattled Haye fled at dawn after shameful brawl with Chisora

Take that: David Haye punches Dereck Chisora
while seemingly holding a drinks bottle

This is the moment when Dereck Chisora believed David Haye glassed him during their disgraceful brawl in the early hours of Sunday morning. Haye, with a glass bottle in his right hand, punched Chisora. Drink spilled on to Chisora’s shirt and the end of the bottle appeared to catch his chin. Women screamed as more members of both camps joined the fray involving the two British heavyweight boxers, and huge men lurched around the room, scattering bottles, tables and chairs.

A camera tripod was raised by Haye in a scene captured by Sportsmail photographer Graham Chadwick, who was caught up in the melee. Police raced to Munich’s Olympiahalle after Chisora’s world heavyweight title defeat by Vitali Klitschko was followed by the bloody eruption at the post-fight media conference. Chisora and Haye face being banned from boxing. Hours later, Chisora was arrested at Munich airport. He was released without charge after questioning. Haye’s flight to London had taken off minutes earlier and the boxer has now gone into hiding.

German police issued a statement saying they are still anxious to quiz former champion Haye about his part in the melee in which Chisora, his trainer Don Charles and Haye’s manager/trainer Adam Booth were left bleeding from the head and face after an angry shouting match erupted into a frenzy of flying fists. After the fracas, Haye and Booth rushed to their five-star hotel in Munich, threw their belongings into bags and set off for the airport before 4.30am. Haye returned briefly to his home in Bexleyheath and then left for a secret location, believed to be a country club. He could not be contacted while Booth refused to comment.

British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith told Sportsmail: ‘My first reaction was to wonder what on earth their mums must think of them. ‘It was extremely disappointing and disgusting. There will be a hearing. I’ve seen the footage and it doesn’t do the sport any good, or Britain. It was like “Brits abroad”. The first thing we need to do is find out the facts. I will be contacting the German authorities and the police to get the facts. I can’t say much more at this stage.’ The question now is not if Chisora and Haye will fight in the ring, but how long it will be before they are allowed to fight again, if ever.

Haye, 30, surrendered his boxing licence when he announced his retirement after losing the WBA world title to Wladimir Klitschko. Even if Vitali were to agree to fight him — which has to be even more unlikely now — there is no certainty that the British board would renew his permit. Chisora, 28, was already in trouble following his unprovoked face- slapping of Klitschko at Friday’s weigh-in. The WBC, whose belt was at stake on Saturday night, warned him to expect a $50,000 (£32,000) fine and asked the German boxing federation to withhold at least that much of his $300,000-plus purse (around £200,000). Come fight night there were arguments in the dressing room when Wladimir Klitschko complained about the style in which Chisora’s hands had been wrapped. This dispute kept worldwide television waiting almost a quarter of an hour for a delayed start.

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