All parties must accept some responsibility for ruckus, says Warren

Published on Tuesday 21 February 2012 04:10

DERECK Chisora’s promoter Frank Warren claimed the blame for the disgraceful scenes in Munich on Saturday night, which saw Chisora brawl with David Haye, should be shared rather than dumped solely at the door of his fighter.

“His emotions were high, his face was bleeding,” Warren said yesterday of Chisora.

“But it was unacceptable. I’m not trying to defend him – I’m just explaining the facts and what exactly did happen.

“What happened as far as Dereck’s concerned [threatening to shoot Haye] – call it ‘street talk’, call it whatever you want – it’s ridiculous, it’s out of order, it’s wrong. Nobody can condone that. Saying you’re going to shoot somebody in front of 250 press, to say the least, is a stupid remark.

“It was unacceptable. Everybody has to accept some responsibility – Dereck Chisora, David Haye, the British Boxing Board of Control, myself...”

The 59-year-old continued: “Could I have stopped it? I doubt it. What could have stopped it is had the German promoters had some adequate security. But they didn’t. [Chisora’s trainer] Don Charles, you see the transcripts of what he said – ‘please get that man out of here’ – but they didn’t have any security.

“The BBBofC also have to accept some responsibility in as much as their chairman was there and was nowhere to be seen when all this was going on. He disappeared.”

Warren was also unhappy that the aftermath overshadowed what had happened in the ring.

“There was a lot of horrible stuff that went on prior to the fight,” he said. “What I was more annoyed about was that Dereck Chisora put in a really good performance in the ring. He went there as big underdog and gave Klitschko the hardest fight he has had since he fought Lennox Lewis.

“That was all taken away by David Haye gatecrashing the press conference, calling out Klitschko and I thought that was disrespectful to Dereck Chisora.”

Warren has no plans to promote any potential future match-up between Chisora and Haye.

“No, I wouldn’t,” he said when asked about the possibility. “I’m sure down the road that will probably happen now, but I don’t feel I could do that.

“Any differences they had, that should have happened in the ring rather than instead of the circumstances it did.”

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