I’ll give you a slow, concussive beating – Haye tells Chisora

David Haye and Dereck Chisora came face to face at West Ham’s Upton Park, to formally announce their summer clash, which has been sensationally tagged ‘License to Thrill’. Haye has promised to finish what he started in Munich – when both British heavyweights came to blows after Chisora lost his WBC heavyweight title fight against Vitali Klitschko. The face-off has been endorsed by the Luxembourg authorities, as neither boxers have hold licenses with the British Board of Contol. Leading promoter Frank Warren has coaxed Haye out from retirement and sealed a deal, even with Chisora’s BBBoC license withdrawn. At Upton Park, Haye and Chisora were seperated by a seven-foot steel fence, as they faced the media. Haye spoke more than Chisora, who only chipped in at different times. “I’m looking forward to it,” Haye said. “The guy’s said so many different things about me; that he’s going to do this and do that. He didn’t learn his lesson in Germany so I’ve got to do it properly, with no tripods and no bottles. “We’ll do it the old fashioned way in the ring and I can expose him officially It can be on my boxing record, not my police record. “I said I’d only come out of retirement for Vitali or Wladimir Klitschko. As far as I was concerned, me and Dereck settled our difference in Germany. “But slowly but surely people kept coming up to me in the streets, asking when I was going to fight Dereck in the ring. “At first I wasn’t interested but in the end I thought “why not?”. Frank Warren made contact and put it to us that we could have a big showdown in England at a football stadium. “In my mind I was gearing up for a fight in the summer anyway. It’s a fight against someone who doesn’t do anything I haven’t seen before. “He’s not coming off a winning streak so it seems like a no-brainer. “My last two opponents were very defensive. I normally look better against a fighter who comes forward and that’s exactly what this guy does. “If I could pick my perfect opponent, who could make me look a million dollars, it would be someone around 6′ 1 or 6′ 2 and a little plodder who can’t punch hard. “Someone who doesn’t do anything spectacular in any department but can take a punch, and that’s him [Chisora]. “I don’t have to do anything technical for this fight, I just have to be in shape and I’m in shape anyway. This is going to be an exhibition. I’m going to break this guy down. “I’m glad he’s got a good chin otherwise he’d get blasted out in the first round. He can take a whack so he’s going to get a nice, slow, concussive beating.” Chisora threatened to jump over the barricade but remained on his seat, hailing himself as a ‘bad man’. “You are all talk,” he told Haye. “You get in the ring and you don’t deliver. “Talk is cheap now. That was a lucky shot he hit me with in Munich. “David: you are winning 1-0 but come July I am coming to whoop your ass.”