Haye-Chisora confirmed

British heavyweights to go head-to-head on July 14

The scene at the Upton Park press conference

An all-British grudge match between David Haye and Dereck Chisora will take place at West Ham United's Upton Park ground on July 14, it has been confirmed.

The two heavyweights famously brawled at a press conference in Munich in February after Chisora had just his world-title fight with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko the previous night.

Following the violent scenes, Chisora saw his licence to box taken away by the British Boxing Board of Control. Haye currently does not hold a BBBOC licence either having officially retired last year after losing his WBA world title to Vitali's brother, Wladimir.
The all-British fight has subsequently had to be sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.
Tuesday's press conference at Upton Park, in which Haye and Chisora's camps were separated by a seven-foot steel fence, was again heated with the two men exchanging insults.
"He is the ideal opponent for me," Haye said. "I am so glad he has got a good chin because if he didn't have a good chin he would be blasted out in first round. This means I will give him a nice, slow, concussive beating.

Talk is cheap

"I tried to knock him out in Munich and this is the opportunity to shut him up."
Chisora, flanked by eight burly security guards, angrily retorted: "I don't like him. David, you need to get style. Your corn rows are out of fashion.
"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.
"Your talk is cheap. You always talk but you don't deliver in the ring."
Promoter Frank Warren insisted that he was not undermining the British Boxing Board of Control by going to Luxembourg for the fight's licence.
"This is not the end of British boxing," Warren said. "I believe it will be a sell-out, a huge event. There are far, far worse things happening in sport than what's happening here.
"No charges have been made against Haye or Dereck for what happened in Munich.
"The (licence appeal) hearing was put back to July so Dereck will have effectively been out of the ring for six months and that equates, if he was a footballer, to being out of action for 24 matches," Warren added.
"He has lost half of his purse in sanctions and costs since the Klitschko fight. He has no qualifications, the next thing for him to do would be to sign on.
"He is not banned from boxing. The fight has been licensed by the governing body in Luxembourg, which has the same standards as the British Boxing Board of Control.
"It is the biggest fight of the year and the fact of the matter is that the fight is legal, lawful and will go ahead."