by Frank Warren
CARL FROCH and Audley Harrison claimed I did not try to stop Dereck Chisora from leaving the table when he confronted David Haye during his press conference in Munich.
But at the time I did say to Don Charles, Chisora's trainer, to grab him. Chisora storming off just caught everybody unaware.
The Klitschko's, under the K2 banner, were promoters of the show and try to maximise their income as is evidenced by almost cheap undercards when they fight.
In Haye's case I thought there was a complete lack of security and barriers for his ring entrance when he fought Wladimir.
The security at the weigh-in appeared abysmal. Maybe, they could have stopped the ugly scenes with Vitali pushing his head into Chisora's, then Dereck slapping him hard across the face.
Chisora's actions were indefensible. He shouldn't have done this and the German Federation have deducted £66,000 of his purse pending a hearing.
And why was Wladimir there in the centre of the ring before the fight, staring at Chisora and trying to intimidate him?
He's not fighting so there is no need for him to be in the centre of the ring eyeballing his brother's opponent.
Regarding Froch's comments, he shouldn't worry about me because if it hadn't been for the trouble in Germany he would have been making the headlines with his admission he had held up fights until his brother or friends could win bets on round betting.
That is fixing fight results and he has been asked to appear before the Board.
Harrison himself has been fined £1,000 for being involved in a violent incident in and out of the ring with Herbie Hide.
Chisora confronted Haye and the melee has been widely reported but what I want to make clear is that Chisora did not throw the first punch.
Unfortunately, Haye's manager and trainer Adam Booth received a cut on his forehead which he thought was from a bottle. In fact, it was a TV camera tripod that Haye had picked up.
Again, there was minimal security at the press conference to adequately deal with any problem of this scale. This is no defence for what happened but prevention is better than cure.
All of this totally overshadowed Chisora's gladiatorial performance and the praise he would have received instead, which is a great shame.
He has made a public apology expressing his regret of the whole incident. Ironically, it was the weekend of Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday celebrations in Los Angeles.
A few observers said this wouldn't have happened in his day. Yet I recall the world's favourite sportsman fighting and rolling on a television studio floor with Joe Frazier.
In recent years in Britain there have been a few fighters who have lost it and have been involved in brawls outside of the ring.
All these happened before the fights took place and, although the fighters were reprimanded by the Board, all of the bouts still took place.
What Chisora got involved with was stupid and wrong and he will now have to deal with it.
In my view he is still a future world champion. But sadly it now remains to be seen if he can fulfil his dream and be remembered for his ring performances and not this sorry episode in Munich.