Whyte-Chisora on O2 bust-up

Heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Dereck Chisora famously clashed after Whyte’s defeat to Anthony Joshua last year, and both have now opened up about what really went down.

The bitter rivals will finally settle their feud on Saturday night as they battle for the British title live on Sky Sports Box Office.

The fiery Londoners have already been separated by security after losing their composure during the filming of ‘The Gloves Are Off’ and the British Boxing Board of Control has insisted that they be kept apart until the first bell sounds at the Manchester Arena.

The animosity clearly runs deep for both and it was during that filming that the pair argued their different accounts as to what really happened after Whyte’s seventh-round stoppage defeat to Joshua a year ago.

Chisora is clear that he meant well, saying: “After the Joshua fight, what was in my mind was to go in there and say ‘you know what, you done well’. Any man who would have got hit by those shots would have gone down, but with your stubbornness you stayed up.”

Whyte though was quick to disagree: “He was doing a lot of talking before the fight, saying this and that, he was hating on me because I’m …

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