Promoter Frank Maloney is the latest to pour scorn on the recently announced heavyweight fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora.
Promoter says boxers shouldn't benefit from 'night of shame'
Promoter Frank Maloney is the latest to pour scorn on the recently announced heavyweight fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora.
The British duo were involved in an unseemly scrap at the press conference following Chisora's defeat to Vitali Klitschko last year.
And Maloney - who promotes unbeaten heavyweight prospect David Price - believes the only reason the fight is taking place - sanctioned by the Luxembourg boxing board because neither boxer holds a British licence - is because they courted controversy.
"I don't have to sell David Price - he sells himself," Maloney told Sky Sports. "The others, to draw attention to themselves have had to cause a night of shame and bring dispute to boxing.
"If they didn't have that punch-up, no-one would be talking about it. They're yesterday's men."
Price, who takes his next step on the ladder when he faces Sam Sexton for the vacant British title at Aintree on Saturday week, said he is just concentrating on doing his own thing.
"There's no point in me having any kind of jealousy towards Chisora," he said. "I'm on my own track to the top, Chisora's got his thing going on.
"I just need to concentrate on what I need to do and that's to beat Sam Sexton. I believe I'll get to the top but it will be in my own way, in my own time, and I won't be doing anything controversial to get the opportunities."
