British boxer freed after being quizzed over post-bout brawl

Haye’s whereabouts remain unknown and he is still wanted for questioning.

Chisora lost to Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko on a points decision in a heavyweight title fight on Saturday night , and the fracas happened at the post-bout Press conference.

A spokesman for Munich police said Chisora was free to return to England after being detained in the German city to answer questions about the altercation.

Haye was not at his hotel yesterday morning and did not turn up for his scheduled flight, the spokesman added.

Asked to confirm that Chisora had been released, the police spokesman replied: “Yes.”

The boxer’s trainer Don Charles was also arrested and questioned as part of the official investigation into the incident.

After losing the 12-round fight on a points decision, Chisora mocked Haye at a Press conference for his poor performance against Klitschko’s brother Wladimir last year and tried to goad his rival into a future bout.

Chisora said: “If David Haye is a fighter he should fight me. Let’s fight, me and you.”

“David, how’s your toe?” Chisora repeatedly shouted at Haye, referring to the injury he blamed his loss to Wladimir Klitschko on.

Haye, ignoring a low-key win for Chisora last year, retorted: “You’ve had three losses in a row (sic).” Chisora then said: “Do you want to tell me to my face? Tell me to my face!”

Chisora then left the stage, approached Haye and went nose-to-nose before the brawl began which lasted at least five minutes.

While the Klitschkos stood and watched, Haye eventually left the scene while Haye’s manager Adam Booth, with blood running down his face, shouted at Chisora: “Derek, man-to-man, I want to know who glassed me. Someone hit me with a bottle.”

Chisora answered: “Did you see me with a glass?”

After being confronted by Booth, Chisora told Haye’s trainer-manager: “If you and David want it (the fight), then we can do it. Either in the ring or outside the ring. You let me know. I want it.

“You tell him; his entourage has got nothing on my entourage. I’m going to find him.

“Your boy had a bottle.”

Chisora’s promoter Frank Warren, who was at the Press conference, labelled the brawl “ridiculous and stupid”.

He said: “It doesn’t do anyone any favours. It was ridiculous.

“It was a very charged atmosphere. It just got out of hand.”

Warren also called for an inquiry into the brawl, adding: “It was something that we can do without in boxing.

“People with cool and calm heads need to look at the footage. It was disgusting. David should have let Dereck have his moment after what was a gallant performance.”

British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) general secretary Robert Smith indicated the governing body would launch an investigation.

“It was extremely disappointing and disgusting really,” he said. “There will be a hearing. I’ve seen the footage this morning and it doesn’t do the sport any good, or Britain. It was like ‘Brits abroad’.

Smith confirmed Haye did not have a BBBC issued licence, meaning the governing body is unlikely to be able to sanction him.

He said Haye’s hopes of renewing his licence, however, had “not been helped” by Saturday night’s incident.