David Haye Haye giving away 37lbs in grudge match versus Dereck Chisora

DAVID HAYE will be conceding 37lbs to Dereck Chisora when the British rivals meet at Upton Park on Saturday night. Haye scaled 210lbs at a feisty weigh-in at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, the lightest he has been for any of his six heavyweight fights.

• Pair to fight at Upton Park in London on Saturday night after brawling in Munich in February

Chisora, the underdog, will enter the ring with a two and a half stones advantage after totalling 247lbs. Both fighters arrived with large entourages that crept within five metres of each other as Haye and Chisora weighed in, cheered on by their supporters in a packed room.

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It was the fourth time Haye and Chisora have met since their infamous brawl in Munich five months ago, an incident that created the demand for Saturday’s showdown. As usual, a steel fence was in place to separate them and they weighed in either side of the barrier.

When they came face to face through the mesh, Chisora and his trainer Don Charles taunted Haye. “We drive the same cars and we’re going to have the same records,” Chisora said.

“I’ve had three losses and after the fight he’ll have had three losses. We’ll be even. I’m coming for you. I’m feeling good. I’m excited and I can’t wait. It’s going to be a great fight, the fans will love it.”

Charles said: “I try my best in all the fights Dereck has had in the past to not get emotionally involved,” he said. “But I can’t stand David Haye. The arrogance he shows is beyond belief. He’s delusional and lives in a dream world. He’s a guy who plays a lot of Playstation games and he gets caught up in that mindset, he thinks it’s all a game, but this is real.”

Meanwhile, newly-reinstated WBA champion Amir Khan believes victory in Saturday’s light-welterweight unification clash with Danny Garcia will help him move on from what he describes as the worst six months of his career. Khan endured a “devastating” spell as he lost his WBA and IBF titles in a surprise defeat by Lamont Peterson last December.

The fall-out from that fight was messy and controversial as Khan raised a number of grievances relating to issues inside and outside the ring. The saga reached new levels before their scheduled May rematch when American Peterson tested positive for banned synthetic testosterone, before admitting he had already used it before their first fight in December, albeit for medical reasons. While Peterson’s positive test vindicated Khan, it also robbed the 25-year-old of the chance to avenge his second career loss. His bitterness has been eased, however, by the news that the WBA have stripped the title from Peterson and strapped it around his own waist once more.

“It was the hardest six months of my career,” Khan said ahead of Saturday’s bout with WBC champion Garcia in Las Vegas.

“Straight after the fight I was devastated because I’d lost the fight and I was so upset. Then when I got into the camp I was so happy that I’d got the rematch, because even that was so hard to negotiate. I agreed to whatever they said.”

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