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Ukrainian WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko (right) pounds British challenger Dereck Chisora during their title bout in Munich on Saturday. Klitschko scored a unanimous points decision over Chisora. — Reuters

MUNICH: Britain boxer Dereck Chisora was arrested yesterday by Munich police in the wake of his brawl with ex-champion David Haye at a postfight press conference after Chisora lost a title fight to Vitali Klitschko.

German police detained both Chisora and his trainer Don Charles for questioning as they were preparing to board a plane to Britain and later arrested the heavyweight boxer at Munich police headquarters.

“Given the events of Saturday evening, a criminal investigation is required,” a spokesman for Munich police said.

Munich police also want to speak to Haye and searched his hotel room yesterday morning, but according to sources he caught a flight back to Britain in the early hours.

The British Boxing Board of Control have already indicated they will launch an investigation into events leading up to the ugly melee in Munich when Chisora was heard to repeatedly shout that he wanted to “shoot” Haye and “burn” him.

On Saturday, Chisora lost to Klitschko in his World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title bout by a unanimous-points decision in Munich, but violence erupted in the post-fight press conference between Chisora and compatriot Haye.

Haye, 31, was amongst reporters after working here as a pundit and branded Chisora “a loser“.

Haye, the former World Boxing Association (WBA) champion, traded blows with Chisora as their respective trainers became involved.

Adam Booth, Haye’s trainer and working at the fight for BBC Radio, was left with a cut head.

Chisora, 28, has won few friends with his conduct after he slapped Klitschko in the face at Friday’s weighin, then spat water in the face of his opponent’s brother Wladimir, also a heavyweight champion, minutes before the title fight.