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BELLEW likes nothing about David Haye – including his parenting skills.

The Liverpool boxer has questioned Haye’s role as a father and slammed the Londoner’s personalit­y ahead of Saturday’s heavyweigh­t clash.

WBC world cruiserwei­ght champion Bellew could not believe Haye’s decision to train away from home in Miami rather than being with his children.

He said: “What kind of father would choose to spend Christmas Day waking up in Miami in the sun with people who couldn’t give two hoots about you rather than waking up around your own children? “It says an awful lot for me to be honest. “What makes him tick doesn’t make me tick. All I’m trying to do is provide a great future for my three children.

“I have manners and I’m a lot more grounded than this clown is.

“I’ve seen this guy reject people for photograph­s. He is the most arrogant and egotistica­l pr*ck you could imagine.”

Bellew, 34 (right) insists the bad blood between the two is not manufactur­ed for pay-per-view television and says former WBA world heavyweigh­t king Haye is taking him lightly.

He added: “I don’t think he’d prepare for Anthony Joshua the way he has prepared for me.

“I think he’s an ars*hole and I don’t like him at all.

“He’s a broken man with nobody around him who cares enough to say something to him and tell him what he has been saying is wrong.”

NICK PARKINSON END NICK PARKINSON doesn’t let them watch the fight on TV. It will be quite sad to witness what I’m going to do to their dad and husband. “I’m looking at putting a combinatio­n together that really hurts him, a Tommy Morrison-Ray Mercer finish where his brain hasn’t even told his legs to fall down and I’m still hitting him as he’s upright. “I’m looking at doing a real number on him before the referee can even stop the fight, landing a few vicious haymakers. “I don’t think he will even defend his WBC cruiserwei­ght title after what I do to him. I would be very surprised if he is granted a boxing licence after this. “It’s a good thing that he’s going to get a big payday for this because his WBC title will be a bit wasted. “Maybe as the fight draws closer he will realise that it is curtains for him. “It’s easy to be brave when you’re three or four weeks out but now it’s getting closer. “He won’t be boxing after March 4, no way. Just like John Ruiz didn’t box, just like Mark de Mori, just like Nikolai Valuev. “There are a lot of fighters when I fight them they stay hit forever and never fight again. “He has said he is willing to die in the ring – I’m the last person on the planet you want to fight if you’re willing to die in the ring, if you’re willing to keep getting up because I punch so hard.” If everything goes to plan for Haye next weekend, he will progress to meet the winner of British rival Joshua’s IBF-WBA world heavyweigh­t showdown with Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium on April 29. And he would relish the chance to take on the Watford giant (above). Haye added: “I would love it this year personally but it’s all down to Joshua. “I’m really hoping he wins and I believe he is a big favourite. Fingers crossed he wins. It’s a fight that the public would really relish.” Watch David Haye vs Tony Bellew exclusivel­y on Sky Sports Box Office on March 4 from The O2, London

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