Source:The Guardian
'Diss respect' appears to have been the trigger factor for British boxers David Haye and Dereck Chisora's brawl three days go in Munich, as both men tore at each other in a vivacious attack usual accustomed with feral animals(but then again such ferocious attacks have been finely coated and disguised to be known as boxing...a type of sport).
Chisora's promoter Fran Warren, appeared to insinuate he (Chisora) may have felt disrespected when Haye interrupted an ongoing press conference. According to Haye's post brawl personal statement, he (Haye) was "stood at the back of the room" until he heard his name called out. He then responded to a comment about a different boxer- Klitschko. However Chisora appeared to have been rubbed the wrong way as he started trading insults with Haye, leaving the conference table to meet him. The rest as we all know, has been immortalised forever in YouTube history.
Richard Carbon(President of Amateur Boxing Association of England) remarked the pair's Saturday night fracas had brought boxing "into disrepute and could do immense damage"...er isn't the whole idea of boxing to damage the opponent beyond physical recognition? How can boxing people up for sport, fun, recreation ever be reputable?
Haye and Chisora displayed puerile, infantile and juvenile behaviour to the world on Saturday. In fact they were fine exports in reenacting what one could find on British streets during nights out: bad tempered men threatening to "shoot the other" for seemingly being "diss respectful" innit? Well newsflash bruvs, you gotta earn respect you get me? You do not box your way into it.
Turns out the truly disrespectful ones in this case were these two grown adult size men, who conducted themselves like pint sized uncontrollable newly developed teenagers on their first 'grown -up ' night out with no adult supervision.
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