Bellew out to end rival’s career
TONY BELLEW is determined to end David Haye’s career because of the trauma his threats caused to his young family.
In the build-up to Haye’s defeat by Bellew in March the former WBA heavyweight champion stepped over the line with his trash-talking.
And that has fired Scouser Bellew up for their rematch at London’s 02 Arena next month.
He said: “To put my kids what he put them through, he’s just a k*** of the highest order.
“He should never have said the things he said, saying my kids are going to visit me in hospital.
“It will never go away now that he’s said it. That gob ***** made out like it was going to be glorious to hurt me.
“I sent my family to Dubai before that fight and when they came back the first thing my son said to his mother was, ‘I can’t wait to go to school and tell everyone. I told them all dad would win.’
“So obviously kids are telling him I’m going to get beat up. It’s not nice but there’s not long left, I can see the finishing line.
“It’s not nice when your kids are having to answer to people at school. It breaks my heart to know he told people, ‘I told you my dad’s going to win’, so kids had questioned him.
“That’s just kids, they don’t see any harm in it, but they’re going to see harm when they’ve seen some gob ***** saying he’s going to put me in a coma.
“My missus also knows it’s being said. She was in tears the night she went to Dubai. When you’re fighting at heavyweight for the first time your missus and your children worry. ‘Dad, you’re not that big, he’s massive.’
“It gets personal and it gets even worse when a gob ***** says what he says.”
Bellew reassures his children – Corey, 12, Cobey, nine, and Carter, four, by promising he will soon retire.
He added: “My son knew I was a boxer but he’d never heard a fighter say he was going to leave his father in hospital.
“That was the first time he’d worried. They all know now but they’ve been told, ‘Dad’s almost at the finish line, so don’t stress.’
“I want to win more than anything but I’ll take great pleasure in knowing I was the man who put the final nail in the coffin of Haye’s career.”