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In the post fight conference after his loss to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, Dereck Chisora got into a wild and embarrassing brawl with compatriot David Hay. Klitschko’s manager Bernd Boente told Haye from the dias “You had an offer, you didn’t accept it, now you are out. You are out. You cannot talk yourself back into the fight, you have no belts.” Chisora then called out Haye, but Haye dismissed Chisora as “a loser.” Chisora challenged Haye to tell him that to his face and approached Haye sparking a melee. After order was restored, a furious Chisora repeated several times that he would “shoot” David Haye and claimed Haye “glassed” him. Chisora suggested to Haye’s manager Adam Booth who was sporting a facial wound from the melee that Haye had hit him with a bottle by mistake. Meanwhile the Klitschko Team watched the whole scene unfold with bemused smiles on their faces. Boente stated, “With the bad experience we’ve had with British fighters we will now look for other countries.”

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London (15th July 2011) RORY McIlroy has the golfing world at his feet and another 22-year-old Irishman, Tyson Fury believes he can do the same in the ring over the next 12 months.

Fury watched on with great admiration as McIlroy burned up the field before winning the US Open and now he is hoping to win back to back majors with glory at the Open Championship at Sandwich.

Manchester-born Fury challenges Dereck Chisora for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles on July 23 at Wembley Arena and says this is the start of him becoming a major sporting star.

Fury said: “Rory McIlroy is an inspiration to every young sports man and woman and I’m no different. Rory brings a lot of charisma and natural talent to the golf course and I bring the same to the ring. The way he won the US Open was awesome.

“After the fall of Tiger Woods Rory came in and gave golf the lift it needed and now I plan to do the same. British boxing needs a new star, it needs a new heavyweight star to replace David Haye and I’m the man to bring a breath of fresh air to the division.

“Like Rory I want to show the world how good I am and that starts with victory over Chisora. The division needs someone like me, someone who can back up what he says in the ring.

“I know that Rory likes his boxing and I hope he can be at ringside for my fight with Chisora. I know he went to watch Haye’s awful performance against Wladimir Klitschko, well he should come to Wembley Arena and watch a real heavyweight ding dong.

“And I hope he is able to bring along the Open trophy with him to show it off, it would be great to see him win again.”

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The fight that every fight fan had been waiting for Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye did not turn out to be the sort of memorable match that was anticipated or hoped for

Basically while IBF/WBO/IBO heavyweight champion Dr. Steelhammer did not quite overrun the Hayemaker, it still was pretty much a one sided affair

In round one, Haye threw lots of power punches but didn’t connect. In round 2 Klitschko connected with some jabs but nothing hard. Both landed a few shots in round three and there was promise of better thing to come. Haye landed a clean shot at the bell to end round four. In round five Haye went for single shots and Klitschko got in with a good combination. In round six Klitschko stepped up the action and seemed to be in control. In round eightKlitschko was deducted a point for pushing down and referee Geno Rodriguez gave Haye a count after he went down in the eleventh. In the last round Haye got in with a hard shot but Klitschko fought back.

The final scores were 117-109, 118-108, 116-110.

In post fight comments; Haye attributed his poor performance to a broken toe that he says he suffered in training three weeks ago.

Klitschko commenting about the fight said; “He was very cautious. He was very difficult to hit. Just like Ibragimov. I really didn’t get challenged in the ring offensively. You know, like “let’s fight!” Instead he was fighting all of them…like all of my recent opponents. I would have loved to have celebrated my 50th knockout.”

Haye also said he was “very frustrated” with the way he fought, and credited Klitschko with having the perfect gameplan.

Other Results

Saturday 2 July 2011 – Imtech-Arena, Altona, Hamburg, Germany

• Cruiserweight – Ola Afolabi def Terry Dunstan by KO 1 / 12 – Time: 2:40 – WBO Inter-Continental cruiserweight title
• Bantamweight – Ashley Sexton drew with Mike Robinson on SD 8 / 8

• Middleweight – Ryan Aston def Zahari Mutafchiev

WBO #3/WBA #5/IBF #9/WBC#11 cruiserweight contender Ola Afolabi (17-2-3, 8 KOs) stopped Terry Dunstan (24-4, 14 KOs) in the first round of a clash for the WBO Intercontinental belt.

After the bout, Afolabi said that he’s going to not be as lazy as he was in the past, and said that he hopes for a rematch with titlist Marco Huck. Huck defeated Afolabi in a competitive bout in December 2009 in Germany. (Afolabi (17-2-3, 8 KO) served as a chief sparring partner for Wladimir Klitschko for today’s big main event).

Unbeaten bantamweight Ashley Sexton (11-0-2, 5 KOs) was held to an eight round draw against Mike Robinson (4-2-2, 0 KOs). Scores were 78-76, 75-77, 76-76.

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