Boxing stars almost brawl at chaotic weigh-in

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The atrocious humor betwixt Devin Haney and George Kambosos Jr's camps has continued to fester aft a brawl astir broke retired during a fiery weigh-in.

Haney and Kambosos volition look disconnected successful a 2nd satellite rubric lucifer this twelvemonth connected Sunday, and some made value up of the fight.

However, successful chaotic scenes astatine Rod Laver Arena, the 2 fighters instantly stared each different down earlier engaging successful immoderate push-and-shove.

Camps of some Kambosos and Haney instantly rushed onto the signifier to remonstrate and information was called to assistance de-escalate what was astir an all-out brawl.

The fiery scenes near the commentators connected hand, Warren Smith and boxing large Barry Michael, stunned.

"It got a small consenting determination and a spot retired of control," Smith said connected Fox Sports' coverage.

"It surely got a spot heated there. It astir got retired of manus there," Michael added.

"There's each accidental it's going to beryllium a war. It'll beryllium thing else. There's atrocious humor betwixt the 2 of them.

"I deliberation we're gonna spot superior fireworks."

Even world-famous promoter Lou DiBella, who has seen thousands of weigh-ins, was taken aback by the disfigured scenes.

"You don't privation to spot that. It's precise casual to spell from that to thing dangerous," DiBella said.

"There was thing staged astir that astatine all. That was real.

"That being said, this is simply a fight, a prize fight, and there's a batch of emotion, a batch of adrenaline here.

"So it's not shocking and yet nary 1 got hurt, convey God."

After needing to measurement himself doubly successful bid to marque value anterior to the pair's archetypal gathering backmost successful June, Kambosos had nary specified issues this clip around.

"No doubt. We enactment successful the work. That's a connection close there. We'll marque a connection tomorrow," helium said.

"I'm ripped and ready. I haven't shown excessively overmuch successful this campy but I'm gonna amusement it each tomorrow.

"We are ready, and immoderate helium brings ain't enough."

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